My Monday Musings: August Wrap-Up

I had a GREAT reading (& blogging) month!

Read:

I read 12 books and most of them were SO good.

Like a Love Story and The Music of What Happens are definitely on Top 10 list for favorite books this year.

The Corgi Mystery cozy series has been a lot of fun to read.

I managed to read 3 books for the Dog Days of Summer reading challenge and that’s about 3 books more than I managed to read for ANY reading challenge outside of the generic Goodreads one.

7 were from the library and since so many of my books come from there now I joined the Library Love reading challenge – that makes 4 out 36 (I started late so I’m not including books I read before I joined). To me, this is like the Goodreads challenge. I feel zero pressure since it’s already what I’m doing anyway.

2 were arc's for upcoming reviews – American Love Story by Adriana Herrara and Dine with Me by Layla Reyne.

The only two that I didn’t love were The Right Swipe (dnf’d because the heroine just hung on to irrational grudges_ and Things You Save in A Fire ( I did like it! But it wasn’t the devastating, emotional read that I was expecting. Before any one issue could be dealt with an even bigger one was thrown in). But I’m an extreme outlier with both of those. They are both 5 star hits on Goodreads.

Angelfall was super trippy but fun and I’m looking forward to reading the next two.

I’ll have a review up for One Day to Fall this week.

August Goodreads Shelf


September TBR:

WHATEVER I WANT
lol I have No review books so I really don’t have anything I need to read and nothing I have in mind other than finishing up the Penryn & the End of Days trilogy


Life:

I had started getting ahead with blogging and had planned on writing my Squirrel Fest post but then had a little detour with Fonzi. I found a lump and had to bring him to the vet. He also had some wonky bloodwork before moving here that needed to be rechecked.

I, of course, as any self respecting pet parent does, fell into a stress spiral. The lump is just a fatty growth and his bloodwork is still a little wonky and requires follow up (ultrasound with a specialist).

But he needed his teeth cleaned and that turned out to much bigger deal than planned. He had it done Sunday and had 16!!! teeth removed. He’s recovering really well. He was out about and about this morning and even ate breakfast but still sleepy. That’s better than how I would do! He’ll be on pain meds and antibiotics the rest of the week and hopefully all the sutures will heal ok and then we get back to following up on that bloodwork.

So now I need a nap from all that worrying lol. Kevin’s off for Labor Day an, for once, I don’t need to worry about the path of a hurricane ( thinking of all my friends out that way though – stay safe!) and hopefully, Dorian stays off the coast.

How did your reading go in August? What do you have planned to read in September?