Hello and welcome to another monthly overview! Unsurprisingly, I got quite a lot of reading done this month, what with three weeks off work. Naturally, it doesn’t matter how much I’ve read, because I’ve also been adding to the TBR… again. In related news: I’ve bought a new bookcase too this month, since my wall of crates was groaning under the weight of too many books. So now I have lots of space and the obvious thing to do is… Someone please send help!
I didn’t post a whole lot this month, because I was reading in preparation of #Orentober and also because I was reading… just for fun, imagine that!
So here’s what I’ve read and reviewed this month, and some of what I’ll be posting next month:
What I read (full novels):
House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig (review to follow)
Nothing Important Happened Today, Will Carver (#Orentober)
Cage (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy 3), Lilja Sigurðardóttir (#Orentober)
Sea Witch Rising (Sea Witch #2), Sarah Henning (review to follow)
Rewind, Catherine Ryan Howard
Little Siberia, Antti Tuomainen (#Orentober)
Invisible Blood, short story collection edited by Maxim Jakubowski (review to follow)
Dead Is Better, Jo Perry
The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware
The Taking of Annie Thorne, C.J. Tudor
A Different Time, Michael K. Hill (review to follow on the blog tour)
Everything About You, Heather Child
Noirville: Tales From The Dark Side, anthology collected by Chris McVeigh (review to follow)
A Killing Fire, Faye Snowden
Sanctuary, V.V. James
Trap (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy 2), Lilja Sigurðardóttir (#Orentober)
The Darkest Lullaby, Jonathan Janz
Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy 1), Lilja Sigurðardóttir (#Orentober)
What I read (novellas / short stories):
Children of the Corn, Stephen King
One Star, The Behrg
What I read (graphic novels):
The Walking Dead – Compendium 2 Chapter 9-10-11-12, Robert Kirkman
Kriss: The Gift of Wrath, Ted Naifeh
Welcome to Lovecraft (Locke & Key #1), Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
What I listened to:
The Mountain in My Shoe, Louise Beech (#Orentober)
Animal Instinct, Simon Booker
Sister, Psychopath, Maggie James
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
What I read earlier but reviewed this month:
Careless Whisper (Soho Noir #3) by T.S. Hunter
The Escape Room by Megan Goldin
Clear My Name by Paula Daly
Death Comes to Dartmoor by Vivian Conroy
Video Killed the Radio Star by Duncan MacMaster
This month I also surfed the Positivity Wave a few times (#4, #5, #6), I had a few Music Mondays (Careless Whisper vs Careless Whisper / Broken by Seether ft. Amy Lee / Lonely Boy by The Black Keys / I Wanna Be Yours by Arctic Monkeys), a #BiteSizeSaturday and a Q&A with Neil Richards & Matthew Costello, authors of A Shot in the Dark.
And my book of the month is….
Not one book but two, and they both kept me up at night:
And that’s a wrap! Thanks for joining me today, I hope you all had a fabulous month, bookish and otherwise, and here’s to another one!
You did read a lot, are yiu going to review all of them- that would take me forever.
No, most were for pleasure, I can’t review them all without quitting my day job ? Only the ones that say review to follow and the Orentober ones.
So many books wonderful books on your list! I keep seeing only praise for Ruth Ware’s new book and am super keen to read it now!
It’s sooooo good, Darina!
Wow what a fantastic bookish month you’ve had!!!
I have! Thanks Nicki ?
Gosh that’s a lot of books you managed to read and listen to! Am really intrigued by your two top books of the month so I’ll be adding those to my list. I’m happy for you that you got a new bookcase (although I do think the crates are very cool) I bet you’re looking forward to filling it with bookish treasure – enjoy!
Thanks Bella ? I love my crates but it took me ages to clean them up last year so I decided to add a bookcase instead of adding a new wall of crates. I am indeed really looking forward to filling it ?
Reading for fun?? What is that? :p I can’t wait to read Ruth Ware’s book!
Wishing you a brilliant September, my Kelly! xxx
Thanks darling, you too ?
Ohhh you read so many!! I need to work on my #Orentober books as well… I signed up for the Little Siberia and Cage blog tour, so I’ll have those for #Orentober month now too (and I didn’t realize Cage was the third book of a series when I signed up, so I should probably get the first two books as well xD). Also, I need to get going with some new shelves too as the situation is getting complicated haha. Have a wonderful September! xx
Many books and many good ones at that! You should read Snare and Trap first to really get the characters and to fully understand how far they’ve come. But Cage is a bit different, and if you don’t have the time to read the first 2, no worries, I think you’ll be able to follow the story regardless. They are both soooo good though, and really quick reads too!