Hi and welcome to another monthly overview!
August was a brilliant month in every way! We had a blissful three-week summer holiday, with fantastic weather throughout. We did lots of fun things and there was also plenty of time for me to spend reading in the garden. It was perfection!
Book-wise, August was brilliant too! I cheated and signed the hubby up for a Storytel trial period when mine ended, which he won’t be using but I am making good use of 😳😂 Still, I managed to read quite a few older books on my TBR, which made me ridiculously happy. I had a few duds but I enjoyed most of what I read, and I think I broke all personal records when it comes to page count.
These were my favourite reads of the month:
In figures, August looks like this:
August
Novels: 7033 pages across 19 novels
Audiobooks: 56 hours across 6 novels and a novella
And here’s what I did in August:
What I read:
The Private Island, Ali Lowe
De kracht van slapen, Inge Declercq
Lucy Undying, Kiersten White
Iedereen paranormaal, Gili
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
Our Last Wild Days, Anna Bailey
Ring, Kōji Suzuki
Una verdad mortal, Angela Marsons
How to Disappear, Gillian McAllister
A Girl Walks Into the Forest, Madeleine Roux
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
Her Last Move, John Marrs
The Surf House, Lucy Clarke
The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson
Chronisch genezen, Dirk Nielandt
Rainforest, Michelle Paver
Sad Animal Facts, Brooke Barker
The Man Made of Smoke, Alex North
A Hollow Sky, M. Sean Coleman
What I listened to:
We Are All Guilty Here, Karin Slaughter
Don’t Eat the Pie, Monique Asher
One Yellow Eye, Leigh Radford
Eat the Ones You Love, Sarah Maria Griffin
Ravensong, T.J. Klune
Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher
Graveyard Shift, M.L. Rio
Let’s have a look at the books that landed on my lap in August:
Five 99p deals and four NetGalley DRCs:
I hope you had a good month and that you are safe and well! Thanks for joining me today and happy reading xxx
Welcome back!!
Glad you had a great summer holiday. Hope the kittens didn’t get up to too much mischief!! It will be their first winter outside coming up, lots of mud to traipse around the house….LOL!!
I hope you told your husband what you did….
Thanks!
Don’t remind me, I have a feeling I’ll be cleaning all day every day 😅
Glad you had a great month, hope September will be good as well!
Thanks Nicki 💜
You were so lucky in August, you really didn’t have to go abroad this year to enjoy great weather. And you read A Man Called Ove, and liked it, yay! Let’s hope September will be a good month too!
I know, we chose the very best weeks 😄 I did, thank you for that Ove nudge 😉 Have a great month, Inge!
We Are All Guilty Here is definitely one of my favorites for the month.
Glad you had a wonderful vacation! And seeing A Man Called Ove on your favorites list makes me SO happy. <3 I hope September will treat you well. xx
Thank you 💜 Hope you’re feeling better!