#August reads

[cloudmancy]

the more I think about Sherlock the more baffled I get why are THEY the face of Victorian era yaoi when gentleman thief Raffles and his schoolmate-accomplice Bunny (and yes he DOES call him his silly rabbit) are right there

[bookaddict24-7]

What were some of the books you read in August? 📖

My reading in August was an interesting experience—I DNFed a lot of books (15) and ended up unhauling 5. My reviews were very mixed, but I definitely read a couple of new favourites! I feel like I was slightly overwhelmed with how many audiobooks I had from the library, so reading was a tiny bit stressful this past month! Anyway, here are the basics:

• I read 29 books

•15 of them were physical books from my personal collection.

•My favourite read of the month was Patricia Wants to Cuddle

Here’s hoping September is a great reading month!

[masterjedilenawrites]

A cherished companion to the To-Read list, my Done-Read list is a compilation of all the fics I read each month as I continue to read based on my notifications. If you missed the reblogs I left along the way, you can use these lists to find recs for your own reading journeys.

Thank you to the writers who brought me joy, comfort, and entertainment this month! 🤗

Finally reunited by @vibratingskull | Thrawn x reader

The Bet by @jetii | Kix x reader

Hunter and the Librarian - Ch 1 by @clonethirstingisreal | Hunter x OC!Wren

You and Me by @ladyanidala | Kix x reader

Buy Me a Caf and We'll See by @letsquestjess | Wolffe x reader

Awake - Part 6 by @danceswithsporks | Crosshair x reader

The consequences that are rendered by @winniethewife | Crosshair x reader

A Sunday Kind of Love by @campingwiththecharmings | Poe Dameron x reader

The Red Bandana by @notgonnaedit | Hunter & 99

Fives is a Menace by @wild-karrde | Fives & Rex

[andreai04]

It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?

[franticvampirereads]

August was a really great reading month. I think I read more fantasy books this month alone than I’ve read in the last four years combined? It’s been so nice! Here’s what I read this month:

Street Magic 4⭐️ {review}

Off Key 4⭐️ {review}

Fresh Ink 4⭐️ {review}

Therapy Game Restart vol 3 4.5⭐️ {review}

Alpha Dragon’s Eagle 4⭐️ {review}

Kings Rising 5⭐️ {review}

Mr. Villain’s Day Off vol 1 4⭐️ {review}

Intoxicating 4⭐️ {review}

That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf 5⭐️ {review}

My favorite books this month were Kings Rising and That Time I Got Drunk, both were fantastic and I just want more of them 😭❤️.

[bujobby]

I love audiobooks, but usually keep a physical book on hand as well.

Re-reading Kitchens of the Great Midwest for about the 6th time as a farewell to Summer, starting on Bunny to get ready for Fall 📚

[dandelion-jester]

My August reading wrap up. Apparently I didn't read at all in the middle of the month??? But this was a good month for me.

I read:

Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

City of Dragons by Robin Hobb

Lirael by Garth Nix

[godzilla-reads]

Goodbye, August 🦋 Welcome, September 🪲

This last month I finished 9 books, bringing my yearly total to 96 books read! My Top 3 Picks were Werewolf, Brass Dragon Codex, and Dragon Soup! Anyway, here’s the list:

🔥 Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons by Frank Tieri and Inaka Miranda

🌈 There is more than one way to be…. Strong by Clara Anganuzzi

🐺 Werewolf by Richard Corben

🔺 Brass Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham

🧌 Giants by David Larkin and Sara Teale

🪱 Rise of the Earth Dragon by Tracey West

🌻 Summer: A Folio Anthology edited by Sue Bradbury

🍜 Dragon Soup by Arlene Williams and Sally J. Smith

☀️ Saving the Sun Dragon by Tracey West

What was your favorite book of August?

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

August wrap-up (bring on the best time of the year 🎃)

[sophiesbookishthings]

August Reads

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

This book reminded me a lot of Ella Enchanted for some reason. It had a very similar vibe with the love story and the adventure. Wit/Hoid was the narrator which was delightful. I always love a good immortal silly guy who's actually wise and powerful that shows up all the time. Also this book has pirates, so big selling point for me. And I thought the whole spore thing going on with Tress's planet was really cool. 12 moons is a bit excessive though lol. I really liked this book a lot, it was fun. Definitely a book I'll be rereading at some point I think.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Book of Bill by Bill Cipher Alex Hirsch

Oh Gravity Falls my beloved. This show is still like top 10 for me tbh. It just fits my brand of weird so well. And idk if I was always like this or if I'm like this because of Gravity Falls lol. I can't believe we got new content in 2024. Also, Ford and Bill are totally exes. Mabel's right.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Circe by Madeline Miller

I will always love a good greek mythology retelling. I was (and will always be) a Percy Jackson kid at heart. I will admit, though, I didn't know a ton about Circe going into this, as I often confused her and Calypso. But as per any mythology based book I read, there were a lot of ventures to wikipedia to learn a bit more about who's who and what else they were involved in. Oddly enough, though, I hated The Odyssey when i had to read it in high school. If there's 1000 Odysseus haters, I'm one of them, etc., etc. or whatever. But Penelope (my beloved) was done right in this book. I also liked that Circe is a morally grey protagonist in the story. She does a lot of stuff that is not really very good, but I support women's wrongs so I thought she was super interesting. And altogether i just really liked this book. There's something about the way Madeline Miller writes that hits just right for me.

4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

I love the Wayward Children series so much. I was a lot like Lundy as a kid. Very about rules and books and pretty alone. I really found the goblin market super intriguing and I think it's one of the worlds from the series I would do best in. It's all about fair deals so it can be harsh at times but it was always fair. I knew the end of the book was coming since Lundy was a character in previous books but it did still hit hard.

4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

More Wayward Children! The main character of this book was intersex, which I didn't actually know going into it, but it was neat cause I don't think I've ever read a book with an intersex character before. I really liked the setting of this book. The Hooflands seem to be one of the least harrowing worlds in the series. I loved the centaurs that took care of Regan. They were fun.

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

This one was really good. I've had this book for a while now and I just haven't got around to reading it until now and I'm so glad I finally picked it up. I really liked both the main character and the love interest, which is kinda rare for me. The whole concept of a girl that's quite literally followed by death was really cool and very well done. I'm excited to read the rest of the series, which I believe is recently completed.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'm trying so hard not to finish all the Sanderson books (but mostly the stormlight archive) before Wind and Truth comes out in December. So I'm reading standalones and definitely not Rythm of War. Tell me why this book took me so long to finish though. I've read stormlight archive books in less time than this took me. It wasn't even that I disliked this book in any way I just don't think it grabbed me as much and I struggled to make myself sit down and read it. This book was super heavy on the politics and religious aspects of the plot and I think that may have been what caused it to drag for me since I tend to be a bit more interested in the magic aspect of fantasy books. But luckily that did pick up a bit more toward the end. But anyway! I loved Sarene in particular. I thought she was so cool. She was manipulating the hell out of people the whole book and I loved it. The end did make me interested see what Sanderson will do in the sequel.

3.75/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️

[sixofravens-reads]

August Reading Wrap-Up

August was a good month for reading apparently, I finished 9 books and didn't DNF any for once!

Read:

The Riddle of the Wren - Charles de Lint

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley

Gothic Tales - Elizabeth Gaskell

The Changeling Prince - Vivian Vande Velde

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

Time of the Twins - Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman

War of the Twins - Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman

Test of the Twins - Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman

Blue Morning vol 1 - Shoko Hidaka

Currently Reading

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

[gothark]

Books I've read in August 2024:

And what I thought about them:

The Water Outlaws - I genuinely feel bad for how bored I was reading this book. I was so excited by the premise but it felt like literally nothing was happening. It took me days to get through this and it really shouldn't have on page count alone.

3.25 Stars

Siege and Storm - This was just so mid, there is only one character I liked in this and even him I didn't really like at the end anymore lol mostly I was busy being annoyed by our main characters and their stupid, stupid choices.

3.25 Stars

Ruin and Rising - I was so glad to be done with the series xD I only read it so I could have the context for reading Six of Crows with a friend. I don't regret it but I certainly could have spent my time reading better books lol

3 Stars

Golden Son - my beloved. I genuinely cannot explain what the Red Rising Series makes me feel but I'm just here for the ride and enjoying literally every second. So down bad for this series.

5 Stars

StreamLine - I read this as an ARC and man I really enjoyed this. That SAO nostalgia but actually good even now and some really good representation. I have a longer review here:

4.5 Stars

The Titan's Curse - Obligatory Rick Riordan book of the month because he hasn't disappointed me yet (and I don't think he will in the future lol) Just had a really good time with this one

5 Stars

A Gathering of Shadows - it was fiiiiine. I wished so much more from the tournament arc just to be really disappointed xD but this series is growing on my like a mind controlling fungus and I think I'm slowly loosing the battle (help) still just

3.5 Stars

The Last Sun - Oh I really liked this one, really good urban fantasy (with men kissing, my favorite) but it just missed that one tiny thing I can never describe that makes a book 5 stars for me. I loved this book but it just didn't give me that spark. Hopefully further down the series!

4.75 Stars

Scythe - another one I really wanted to like and just didn't. The world building was so interesting (if very fragile in my opinion) but the characters were just.... flat. I didn't feel for any of them and that was kinda the important part lol they just felt a little two dimensional to me.

3.25 Stars

Punk 57 - oh I really disliked this one. I hate bullies, i hate bully romances and that was basically all this was. Add some cringe pop culture and song lyric sections, topped with some really uncomfortable smut and you have basically everything I dislike lol

1 Star

Trial of the Sun Queen - The world building of this book is as solid as the foam in the bathtub of an overenthuisiastic toddler. It doesn't do anything new, or particularly well, it was very predictable and I was just really uncomforatble most of the time while reading this.

2.5 Stars

The Resurrectionist - Another ARC this month and dear lord, this was everything I wanted. I loved the premise, the plot, the characters and I will buy this book so hard when it comes out. Say anything bad about this and you can come catch these hands.

5 Stars

The Fox and the Dryad - I did like this book... mostly. The relationship was cute but would have been cuter if it had less... you know... lying. It's another one of those were characters just need to open their mouths and talk to each other. Also the mentions of designer brands were genuinely driving me insane. I wanted to cry each time they are mentioned (which is too often)

4.5 Stars

[lizziestudieshistory]

Books of 2024 - August, September and October

Still struggling to read consistently, mainly due to mental health and personal circumstances at the moment... But I have managed to finish some books over the last few months (although, I haven't finished anything this month yet 👀) and here they are:

August

Emma by Jane Austen - I have nothing left to say about this other than it's my favourite and I'm depressed so... 🤷‍♀️

Summer by Edith Wharton - I don't really remember this 3 months later but it was probably fine? I just remember thinking this hadn't aged very well

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - I buddy read this with my best friend and I loved it even more the second time around.

Harry Potter 1 & 2 - depression set in and I listened to these in bed because I couldn't face anything else...

September

Harry Potter 3 & 4 - same as above

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - objectively this book is excellent, not perfect but very good. The writing is superb, but I definitely read it at the wrong time and I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have done on paper.

October

The Music of the Lord of the Ring Films by Doug Adams - very mixed feelings about this one. I enjoyed experiencing it, but I do think Adams missed out on writing a more interesting book. The first quarter was fantastic analysis on Shore's score and how it related to the films and Tolkien's writing. The last three quarters is far too descriptive of what each track does... I kept thinking I could hear this for myself and I didn't really need to read someone spelling it out to me? But I might know too much about music for this one. I really do want to write about this book separately because I have a lot of thoughts.

Super-Infinite: the Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell - this is a fun piece of nonfiction writing! It sort of fails as a biography of John Donne because Donne is so elusive in history as an individual (despite being a giant of early modern English literary history). However, it's a fantastic history of the intellectual circles of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period! Seriously it's so good at introducing someone to this complex and bizarre world and I'd highly recommend it for that!

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - the book that taught me an excellent story can be ruined by ONE STUPID MOMENT...

The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke - the first miss for me from Clarke and you can read why here.

Still reading:

When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Penman

Emma by Jane Austen (again)

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

[thechaoticreader]

📚🌻August & September Wrap🌻📚

We’re not going to talk about how late this is! THANKS💕

Stats

Total: 3 books

Average Rating: 4⭐️

Most Read Genre: N/A

DNF Count: 5

Books

Title: Boyfriend Material

Author: Alexis Hall

Genre: Romantic Comedy (mlm)

Format: Kindle

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️.75

Start Date: 08/01/24

End Date: 08/04/24

Title: Out of Left Field

Author: Jonah Newman

Genre: Y/A Graphic Novel (mlm)

Format: Library Book

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️.25

Start Date: 09/12/24

End Date: 09/12/24

Title: Bored Gay Werewolf

Author: Tony Santorella

Genre: Contemporary

Format: Physical Book

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Start Date: 09/18/24

End Date: 09/24/24

DNF List

If This Gets Out - I read over half of it and was just annoyed and honestly I haven’t recovered from the slump it put me into in fact I haven’t so much as looked at my Kobo since.

Kittentits - HATED the writing style and the main character was irredeemably unlikable imo

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - I found out its book 1 and the second doesn’t have a release date yet so I’ll pick it up again once I can binge the series!

Infinity Alchemist - Right book, wrong time! It did not fit the mood so I’ll pick it back up again sometime

Honey Girl - same as Infinity Alchemist, i have not been into romance since August

[andreai04]

She prayed and there was no answer. No one was there—or if there was, He/lt was cowering from her.

God had turned His face away, and why not? This horror was as much His doing as hers.

[duckprintspress]

August was a bit of a weird reading month for me, there were a bunch of really busy times when I could hardly read at all and a bunch of times when I had basically nothing to do BUT read. So here we are.

My August reads:

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

小蘑菇 vol. 1 by 一十四洲 (this is vol. 1 of the manhua, in Chinese, and I read it in Chinese, and yeah I'm pretty proud of myself, three years of work paying off)

The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin

How to Survive as a Villain vol. 1 (official) and the rest as a fantranslation, by Yi Yi Yi Yi

Flamer by Mike Curato

Yona of the Dawn vol. 3 and 4 by Mizuho Kusanagi

Dead Endia: The Broken Halo by Hamish Steele

Wolfpitch by Balazs Lorinczi

Solo Leveling vol. 8 by Chugong

My Hero Academia vol. 15 and 16 by Kohei Horishiki

Blue Flag vol. 6 and 7 by Kaito

Haikyuu vol. 8 by Haruichi Furudate

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish vol. 1 and 2 by Xue Shan Fei Hu

Bubbles and Butterflies by Genevieve Maxwell

Dancing for the King by Terra P. Waters

LA Photographs Itself by YF Ollwell

Rabbit, Run by Lyonel Loy (not pictured cause the author didn't want me to add it to Storygraph)

Welcome Back, Alice vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi

Black or White vol. 8 by Sachimo

I Want to Be a Wall vol. 3 by Honami Shirono

Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki