Heat wave and new job and books, oh my. It’s been a long and mostly uneventful month.
Reading Challenges Check-In
Goodreads Reading Challenge
- Read this month: 31
- Current total: 163 / 200
Beat the Backlist Bingo
- Read this month: 3
- Current total: 51 / 52
Popsugar Reading Challenge
- Read this month: 4
- Current total: 45 / 50
Books and Tea Reading Challenge
- Read this month: 3
- Total: 12 / 12 🎉
Cross-Country Reading Challenge
- Read this month: 6
- Current total: 6 / 51
State of the ARC
State of the ARC is a monthly meme created by Evelina @ Avalinah’s Books.
Acquired – 3
The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker | Netgalley | TBR |
War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna | Netgalley | Read |
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao | Netgalley | TBR |
Read – 1
War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna | ★★★★✯ |
DNF – 2
I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin | [ review ] |
The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker | [ review ] |
Currently Reading
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Remaining ARCs
- Cazadora by Romina Garber
Read This Month
Clicking on the titles below will take you to my review, either on Goodreads or the blog.
[ARC] indicates an advance review copy; [RC] indicates a post-release review copy.
5 Star Reads
- Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater
4.5 Star Reads
- Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
- A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna [reread]
- A House of Rage and Sorrow by Sangu Mandanna [reread]
- A War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna [ARC]
- Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater [reread]
4 Star Reads
- Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
- Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
- You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan
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Monthly Total:
31 read + 16 DNF
3.45 average rating
Currently Reading
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

- What are the best/worst books you read this month?
- Which books, if any, are you hoping/planning to read next month?
- Did you participate in any reading challenges and/or readathons this month? Are you signed up for any next month?
WOW you read so so much, and had so many great reads too! I read 32 books and I think my favourites were the books in the ember quarter, I Wish You All The Best and FRom Lukov With Love!
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thanks, Jayati! sounds like you had a pretty great reading month too! 😉
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