Welcome to Litsy!

Here‘s my July list for #ReadYourEbooks. I‘m happy to report that I‘ve read one of the June picks and am more than halfway through a second one!

Clean calendar page
Holidays, pretty picture
To start a new month

#haikuhive #haikuaday

My July #bookspinbingo TBR is ready to go! Very summer murder mystery heavy 🤣. #bookspin #doublebookspin #summerreading

#july #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo
Posting but I might have to make changes. Currently traveling.

The Birthday Fairies are looking forward to celebrating with these special birthday Littens in July!

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If you‘d like to be added to the list, and receive #birthdaylove and wishes on your special day, simply send your Litsy handle and birthday to litsybirthdays@gmail.com and the Fairies will do the rest.

Don‘t forget, you can only apply for yourself but you can encourage your friends to apply! 😊

Slightly belated July roundup. The top book was The Vulnerables, absolutely brilliant. Unexpected good read was Four Letters of Love.

My #JulyReCap

My July Recap. Although It was a busy work month & I didn‘t get to everything I wanted to read, I feel great about finishing 13 books. I participated in #SundayBuddyRead #CampLitsy2024. #SheSaid #SeasonalCozies #Roll100 #NancyDrewBR #ChildrensClassicRead2024 #BobWhiteBuddies & #PemberLittens #chapteraday #SeriesLove2024 & #AuldLangSpine

3 were audiobooks which is a lot for me. I liked everything I read except All Fours but faves were James, ⬇️

#July2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I have read 7 books during July 2024 with 1 bingo.

My July #MonthlyWrapUp and #BookspinBingo board
I managed two bingos even though I read a ton of books not on my list 😅 #moodreader But I finished my #doublespin and am halfway through my #bookspin
Loving the new storygraph graphic! I finished 28 books total. So still a great month of reading ☺️
@TheAromaofBooks

JULY TOTALS
Average Rating - 3.87
Total # of Books - 21
Top Genre - Thriller
Hours Listened - 194 or Pages conversion - 6,901
DNF's - 4 (not shown)
Fav Book - Love Letters To A Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell

Here are my July Reads & Stats:
22 Books Read
1 DNF not shown
9 books off physical TBR
2 physical reads
6 Kindle books
14 Audiobooks

5⭐️ Reads: Fool‘s Fate, The Eyes Are the Best Part, Ready or Not, Night Film, & Twice Shy

Several #Roll100 picks done too!

Here‘s my July reading wrap-up. I really like this cute little summary. This is going to save me so much time every month. I just finished Never Lie by Freida McFadden. I decided to add it to my July wrap-up even though it‘s now August 1 and it‘s 2 AM. I didn‘t think I was going to finish this book at 2 AM but I couldn‘t stop reading it once it got really good.

Started the month with a slump but ended up reading a good amount

I‘m a week late with my July TBR. It‘s ambitious but I‘m reading books for #SundayBuddyRead #ChildrensClassicRead2024 #SeasonalCozies #CampLitsy24 #SheSaid #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #FoodandLit #Turkey #Naturalitsy (finishing up June & hopefully starting July if my hold comes in) #Roll100 July, an ARC & #Roll100 May/June catch ups.

The ? Is for the multiple Libby e-books on hold that say “~ 2 Weeks” that will probably all come in at once!

Can‘t wait to find out what I should be reading next!! #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

I can‘t believe it is July 1st… summer is flying by! This photo challenge looks super fun… can‘t wait to take part! #coverlove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#bookspin #bookspinbingo #july

How is it time for July #bookspin ~ here‘s my list to kick off the back half of 2024! 😬

*cries in overwhelm* 😭 😭 😭 #bookspin #july

Also now that‘s it nearly September, here‘s my July reading! I really like the Bookmory has these downloadable calendars.

Wow, I haven't been on Litsy in a couple weeks and August is somehow almost halfway through? I've been busy and stressed with work and life but still reading! Here's my very late July wrap-up with 23 books read, 1 DNF
I'm super behind on reviews so gonna try to catch up on those this week!
#MonthInReview

July wrap up.

Five books this month! Not pictured is the copy of Heartstopper I was reading at work.

My July Recap: It was a good month for reading as I finished 16 books + one prequel story for #ChloeGongreadalong Books were completed for #CampLitsy23 #SundayBuddyRead #hashtagbrigade #PemberLittens #TitlesAndTunes #DiverseCozy #BookedInTime #SeriesLove2023 + my virtual foodie book club & I finished 3 leadership books for work. I also squeezed in 4 library holds that came in & a follow up from #AuldLangSpine

I enjoyed almost everything ⬇️

Thanks for introducing me to #Bookmory @BookwormM ! I especially love this calendar feature!

#JulyStats

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The night country

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The birthday party
Pieces for the left hand
Katalin street
Western lane
Brother & sister enter the wood
Romantic comedy

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The trees grew because I bled there
Hijab butch blues
Woman running in the mountains

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The gifted school
Long bright river
Lone women

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I am homeless if this is not my home

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The Finkler question

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The worst kind of want

24 books finished in July! August here we come! My favorite from last month was In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune.

Here‘s what I read and watched in July as well as my thoughts on what I watched.

Firefly Lane - My mom and I watched this on Netflix. My mom liked it. I didn‘t. Maybe I‘ll like the book better.

Elemental - My birthday was on July 9. I went to see this with my mom. I really liked this. It was cute.

Oppenheimer - I went to see this with my stepmom, my brother and my sister in law. They liked it. I didn‘t.

A solid TBR for the month!

My July TBR. I won‘t get to all of these but I will for challenges like #SundayBuddyReads #CampLitsy2023 #TitlesAndTunes #hashtagbrigade for #Pemberlittens #BookedInTime #DiverseCozy #SeriesLove2023 + my virtual foodie book club & leadership books for work I will. The others are “hope to get to” although I am in the midst of two of them & you never know what will just pop up & grab my attention.
💯 #moodreader

These two shelves are my #bookspin choices in order (1-20) for July. Lots of carry over from last month, but I‘m trying to read down the books on my shelves. I have to move next spring again so I don‘t want a ton of books to move.

Looking ahead to my July TBR. Here‘s my #bookspin list. Lots of #AuthorAMonth, some #CampLitsy23 and #Roll100, and a few new additions to my shelves. Can‘t wait to see what‘s picked!

Happy 4th! 🎆🇺🇸

July I will be focusing in on my #cybils award reading - mostly elementary and middle grade speculative fiction with some random graphic novels thrown in. I don‘t have a ton of plans besides physical therapy and some family low key plans so hoping to have a fun July full of good books and fun.

@TheAromaofBooks #bookspin

#bookspin

My July #Bookspin

Here is my #JulyTBR that I think is set. This includes continuing or finishing up series, some horror for #summerween, my #roll100 picks, my RL book club pick-Demon Copperhead and just things I feel like reading. I am going camping at the end of July and have a light activity month, so I anticipate lots of reading. I will, as always, be participating in #bookspin #doublespin & #bookspin

Still two books behind but starting adding my books back that have more than 200 pages.

#bookspin

#temptingtitles #withamonth

April 21 #TemptingTitles With a Month @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My July Stats: 12 books read & one in process which is good for a month that got work busy. Finished my books for my virtual foodie book club (reread), #SundayBuddyRead & #PemberLittens (Longbourn is still in process) & one book tour review #ARC 📚I popped in a few library books & a couple of cozy mysteries & reread a childhood favorite.

My top 3 were probably Wordslut, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel & Mr. Malcom‘s List, but I enjoyed them all.

#BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo #ReadMyRoom #SeriesRead #BookNookBuddies2022 #JubillantJuly #20in4

July was a slow reading month but I did get some “shorter (🌶🌶) novellas read that aren‘t included in my stats. No BINGOs either unfortunately.

#JulyStats

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This Time Tomorrow
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Every Last Fear
Ain‘t Burned all the Bright
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After You‘d Gone
At the Table
We Do What We Do…
Cabin Fever
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Small Things Like These
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Devil House
Mensen in de zon
Decagon House Murders
Little Snake
All the Lovers in the Night
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You Made a Fool of Death
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Radiance of the King
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Red Island House
House Across the Lake

#Julywrapup!
24 read, 2 DNFs
5⭐️- The Dragon Republic, My Lovely Wife, Out of the Clear Blue Sky
4.5⭐️-Dawnshard, Something is Killing the Children, Swordheart
4⭐️- A Magic Steeped in Poison, The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes, Dead Silence, Flying Solo, For You & No One Else, That Time I Got Drunk…, The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Heart of the Wolf, Rule of Wolves, Before They Hanged, What Moves the Dead
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Today, I‘m sharing the books I read in July. My goal this month was to finish reading the Dorothy Must Die series. I started the series in 2016. I‘ve had the 3rd volume of short stories and the 4th book sitting on my shelf since 2017 so I decided to finish the series. Since I finished the series, I‘ve been thinking about it a lot. It was so fun and magical. I‘m experiencing a book hangover.

Of course the dogs and cats book was my favorite for the month, but I also really enjoyed the Jason Reynolds series. #wrapup

#BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo #BookNookBuddies2022 #SeriesRead2022

My choices this month. A #chunkster (Winter) & a long awaited #SeriesRead. I also listed is a little bit of play/more #Impulse reads.

I made my #bookspin list last week but forgot to post it. So here is also with with my #bookspinbingo board.

#bookspin is a romance book
#doublespin is Excellent Women for the #pemberlittens & I‘m planning to read The Watsons as well.

Left room for lots of mood reading and probably continuing the Icehome series by Ruby Dixon on KU. Also joining #littensloveromance in reading Boyfriend Material 💙 Lastly, spots for #roll100 & #authoramonth books