#summerween tbr

[princessofbookaholics]

Summerween TBR ☀️🎃

Host: gabbyreads

Duration: 5th to 11th July 2024

Prompts:

read a thriller or horror book: the mysterious case of the alperton angels by janice hallett

read a book with the night sky on the cover: 56 days by catherine ryan howard

read a book with 5 words in the title: the stranger in her house by john marrs

read a book that takes place in the summer: the midnight feast by lucy foley

read a book in the dark or at night: I'll try to read one of the above books in the dark

more tbr options i have because i'm indecisive:

darling girls by sally hepworth

home is where the bodies are by jeneva rose

listen for the lie by amy tintera

the female of the species by mindy mcginnis

episode thirteen by craig dilouie

i've been in such a thriller mood lately, i'm excited to read all of these! happy reading 🎃

[sophiecountsclouds]

July tbr!

I've accidentally made another rather long tbr... but I still have the faithless optimism that I can read it all 😂

Hello! We’re still in the first week of July so I’m not late on this yet… right? After months of banging on about making my monthly tbr’s shorter and more achievable, I’ve got a tbr that’s 10 books long but I can explain 😂 It’s only so long because I’m doing my first ever readathon! I’ve been following gabbyreads on YouTube for a couple of years and even though I don’t read a lots of…

[moonlight923]

Summerween 2023

Summerween 2023 Summerween is here again! July 7-13 is spooky time and I can’t wait! In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Summerween is an annual readathon hosted by Gabby and Olivia to celebrate the Halloween and spooky season all year long. You usually want to focus on horror, thriller, or mystery books that fit a certain prompt. I haven’t been keeping up with booktube so I’m not sure what…

[kappabooks]

short 'n' simple | July 2023 TBR

July TBR time!

I had a longer TBR in the works, but the end of the month I got a taste of that great cocktail which is “overwhelmed and susceptible to reading slumps” so I’m just listing the ARCs I have to read this month and then just leave it at that. Night of the Living Queers edited by Shelly Page and Alex Brown I received an eARC of this YA horror anthology from the publisher. These are 13 stories about…

[bekah-reading]

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5/5

I am on a book buying ban- have been on one since September…but my friend surprised me with this on release day. We said we could surprise each other with books during the ban; just not buy books for ourselves.

I loved this. I loved If We Were Villians; and I knew this was gonna be it for me as well. ML Rio has such an amazing writing style; and this is a short novella so I don’t want to say much.

This is about a group who are on a non-smoking campus and they end up meeting in the graveyard in the middle of the night, and it becomes a tradition.

This was so good and I love the cover, the characters were just as fleshed out as If We Were Villains- and it was multiple POV. I really loved it and was so perfect for Spooky Season. So maybe next year or Summerween or the Winterween; put this on the TBR.

[hismercytomyjustice]

9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

I was tagged a hot minute ago by @ valentinaonthemoon and have been meaning to do this for ages!

Last Song: There Will be Sun from Groundhog Day: The Musical. The music for that show is SO FUCKING GOOD. I was trying to decide on a oneshot fic title and spent like 20 years looking through all my music before finally settling on this one. Wanna give honorable mentions to Daisies by Black Gryph0n & Baasik and Deal Maker by Tyto-Cat because I have been listening incessantly to both over the past few days. So fucking good!

Favorite Color: Teal! Though I also have a soft spot for rose gold.

Last film/show: Most recently have been rewatching Community. God, that show is such a fucking treat. Watched this compilation of best Dean moments earlier today too and almost injured myself by laughing. Also, shoutout to Jim Rash as a fellow, exceedingly rare native Charlottean! I've also been making my husband watch Gravity Falls after somebody corrupted me. I s2g that show just keeps randomly resurfacing in the back of my head like some kind of hypnotic cryptid. I didn't hyperfixate as hard as my friend did on it, but damn if I don't keep hearing its siren song when I least expect it... Rewatching it is def a delight tho. I'm seeing now why folks are so enthralled by the writing for it, now that I'm more aware of the foreshadowing along the way! Also omggg we're about to rewatch Summerween which I absolutely adored the first time!

Sweet/savory/spicy: Sweet!!!

Last thing I googled: Lmaooo. Fucking "jabba the hutt play doh set" because I watched Chris James's most recent Pawn Stars video and was trying to figure out whether or not the guy selling one had gotten fleeced.

Last Book: *immediately proceeds to forget everything they have ever read* Umm... I've mostly been reading fanfic as of late. But the most recent book I started was Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Behind Blackfish by John Hargrove. LPOTL did an episode on SeaWorld a few weeks ago and mentioned it, so I picked it up. As for the last book I finished... I think it was Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer. Really enjoyed it and have the 2nd one near the top of my fucking mountain of a TBR pile... I lost my mind and bought way too many books over the past few months...

Relationship status: Married for almost 5 years now! We were extremely lucky to get married right before Covid hit. So many of our friends had to cancel their weddings because of it. My anniversary is coming up next month! But I've been with my husband for just a few weeks shy of 11 years now!

Current Obsession(s): Hazbin Hotel. Hit me out of nowhere like a fucking sniper bullet. All because Spotify was like "hey, you like musicals, here's a few new songs for your daylist!" I knew literally nothing going into it except that the songs were catchy af and, well, I'm in too deep now... Spotify got me... Interview with the Vampire. This multi-fandom blog is actually a Assad Zaman appreciation blog in (a terrible and super obvious) disguise... Hands down one of the best shows I have ever watched. I am straight up feral over it. It is simultaneously hysterical and absolutely fucking devastating. Everyone involved in it is so passionate about the work too and it shows! I have written fucking essays on here about season 2. I can guarantee you when Season 3 drops, I am going to be even worse. I will never fucking emotionally recover from 2.05 or 2.07 BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO. Phantom of the Opera. I have been obsessed with POTO for...fuck...almost 20 years now? (jfc i am old) I saw the 2004 Movie back in high school orchestra, and I can still remember the instant I felt the hyperfixation take root. Masquerade. I wore the DVD out, I wore the soundtrack out (my little brother, who had never fucking seen it knew the words to the soundtrack). I read the book. I read Phantom by Susan Kay. I read The Angel of the Opera. I (fucking unfortunately) read The Phantom of Manhattan (hands down a waste of a perfectly good tree, I am still mad about this book literally 20 fucking years later). I researched the Paris Opera House. I wrote POTO fanfic… Ramin Karimloo is hands down my fave Phantom though. And I absolutely adore the Royal Albert Hall production. I'm so fucking glad they filmed it. Musicals. I have seen...so many fucking musicals live. Phantom of the Opera (4x), Les Miserables (2x), Wicked (2x), Mary Poppins (2x), Annie (2x), Hadestown, Six, Legally Blonde, Moulin Rouge, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hairspray, Beetlejuice, Hamilton, Big Fish, Mamma Mia, Anastasia, The Book of Mormon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dear Evan Hansen, Fiddler on the Roof, RENT, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, If/Then, Jekyll & Hyde, Miss Saigon, The Great Comet of 1812, The Bodyguard, The Color Purple... Those are all just the professional live shows I have seen. And I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some! I've seen even more via high school/college productions. Not to mention movies/recordings. Or musicals I've only listened to the music of but haven't actually seen! Pacific Rim. My other forever obsession. It was the fandom I wrote my most fics for prior to Hazbin Hotel. My first fic on AO3 is one for Pacific Rim, lol. I s2g, those two bitchy, gay, neurodivergent scientists have lived rent free in my head for over a decade now... Those motherfuckers are constantly at each others' throats, but they did not even stop to question whether or not they would be Drift Compatible... They make me fucking ill. I have genuinely lost count of the number of times I've watched the movie...

Tagging: Absolutely no pressure at all, but tagging @asymmetricjest, @person-of-varying-obsessions, @theeladymystic, @gourmet-trash, @quartzthequat, @moonmaiden86, @ladyrevealedofcloak, @marionrav, and @batteredrugosa!

[dezithinks]

Summerween 2024: Day 6

We have finished Girl Abroad! It was a fun read, not my favorite book from Elle Kennedy but I did enjoy it! Since I have finished all of the books I started on Summerween TBR, I decided to pick up Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun again! I thought I got further into the series than I did but I am excited to start it up again! Today’s food we made is jack-o-lantern quesadillas. I love quesadillas and I…

[bookmark-lit]

Challenge Check-In and Planning

It’s no secret that I love a reading challenge, but I’ll be honest – I haven’t done a great job lately of keeping up with them. I’ve barely completed any readathons either! I thought, as usual, the midyear point is a great time to assess challenge progress and discuss future TBRs. I’m participating in one summer-long reading challenge that I should come up with ideas for, as well as Summerween…

[oneartivist]

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READATHON 📚

Oh I'm sorry, this is my first reel. And it was hard. But I did it cause I'm young.

Okay, let's dive into the Summerween Readathon which is basically reading Halloween books in the middle of summer and yas. 5 prompts, 5 books. Let's bet I read two.

Who's joining?

#Books #Bookworm #Book #Booknerd #bookshelf #ya #bookstagram #booklover #bookaddict #read #reading #bookreview #review #tbr #instabook #novels #novel #reader #readathon #currentread #youtube #booktube #booktuber #booktubeathon

[randomlyritchie]

Summerween is coming!!! 👻👻👻 I want to say I’ve been partaking in Summerween since 2021. Mystery/Thriller is my favorite genre, so this one of my favorite readathons to participate in! I’ve decided to make a full TBR this year. Last year, I think I just really committed to one thriller. Even if I don’t finish all of these books…I’m still just excited to participate!

Here are the books I’m going to attempt to get to…even if I don’t finish them all…

Prompt #2 - One Of The Girls by Lucy Clarke: I saw this around earlier this year…or at the end of last year. I actually had it checked out from the library but never got to it. So, now is as good a time as any. I hope I like it! :)

Prompt #3 - For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing: Finally trying Samantha Downing out. I’m a sucker for stories about academia…especially dark academia! 🖤🖤🖤 I’m going to assume that this takes place in the fall since it’s about a school. If not, let’s just pretend. 😉 Super excited for this one!

Prompt #4 - The Only One Left by Riley Sager: Okay, so I kinda already started this one…but I’m still going to use it for the readathon. I’m still at the very beginning & will be lucky to finish this by the end of Summerween.

Prompt #5 - Blood on the Tracks by Shuzo Oshimi: I’ve been hearing so much about this. I think it might have Norman Bates vibes, so I’m super intrigued!

Bonus - Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca: I would like to at least finally start this one. We shall see…👻👻👻

#RitchieReads 🤓📚✨

[jeannekwong]

Summerween TBR

I have picked books to read for Summerween. It is a readathon about reading creepy books in the last week of summer. The dates are from Aug. 24 to 30th.

Here I give the titles and the prompts they satisfy.

1. Carrie by Stephen King – Creepy cover

2. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler – Paranormal

3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - Haunted house

4. Whisper Man by Alex North – Read in the dark

5. Final Girls by Riley Sager – Recommended

[princessofbookaholics]

🦇 Summerween Readathon 🦇

A very spooky readathon starts tomorrow (2nd July) and I'm so excited because I love thrillers and this is the perfect readathon for me! ☀️🎃☀️

Hosted by gabbyreads and oliviareadsalatte it's a fun time to read spooky books in the summer and get those vibes, ya know 💀

No set TBR for me because I never follow them but some books that I'm really excited to get to are City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab, The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, and Survive the Night by Riley Sager!

[nerdfighter-steffie]

Happy August 🧡☀️⁣ ⁣ This is my tentative TBR because I have a hard time sticking to them. But there’s so many books I want to read this month. For sure will be reading Felix Ever After, (update: haha I read Felix in the 31 of July and loved it)I’m going to be trying to only read YA for the month of August a challenge my friend @portcityreads created and there are going to be two readathons, so I’m really looking forward to those. ⁣ ⁣ Not included in the picture: A good girls guide to murder,Midnight Sun and Clap when you Land. As well as Shine which I’m almost finished with. I either have these on my kindle or on audiobook. I’m probably going to add some spooky books for Summerween at the end of August too 🍁⁣ ⁣ What books do you have planned for August? ⁣ ⁣ #YAugust2020 #alwaysreading #readersofig #livetoread #bookphotography #ofquietmoments #bookishlove #cozyvibes #bookblogger #booksofinstagram #bibliophile #booklove #avidreader #booksforlife #bookreviewer #Bloggerstribe #Bloglife #smallblogger #bookreview #bibliofeature #biblio_feature #slowandsimpledays #seeksimplicity #rusticpages #transauthor #christinaschronicles #augusttbr (at New Brunswick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDWcDugAG6w/?igshid=l5fjkblv77tl

[moonlight923]

July 2023 TBR

July TBR This is an exciting month! I have the whole month to read and it’s Summerween! Summerween will have its own TBR and begins the 7th. I’m drawing 4 cards for the 4 weeks this month and a bonus catch-up card. I hope to be able to tackle all these and Summerween. 4 of Diamonds Read an Own Voices book XOXO, Axie Oh I’ve had this on my shelf for a long time. I got a beautiful collector…

[yaxleypeanut]

Summerween: Day 7

READ

The Haunting of Aveline Jones - 98 pages FINISHED

Just Like Mother - 7 hours and 36 mins FINISHED

Total: 98 pages / 7 hours and 36 minutes 2 books completed

COMMENTS

Wow, I was in a very reading-heavy mood this evening! I finished Aveline Jones on my lunch break - it was cute but not spooky enough for me. Just Like Mother was alright, but it felt like it could’ve been 100 pages shorter and still been very successful.

I likely won’t start a new audiobook for Summerween, instead going back to my normal TBR for tomorrow, but I will try to make a dent in Plain Bad Heroines tomorrow evening, though I have no hope in finishing that tome!

READ SO FAR

701 pages

16 hours and 6 minutes

2 books completed

COMPLETED BOOKS

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (5 hours and 53 minutes) ✭✭✭✭✭

None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney (399 pages) ✭✭✭✭✭

The Haunting of Aveline Jones by Phil Hickes (224 pages) ✭✭✭✩✩

Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel (10 hours and 30 minutes) ✭✭✭✩✩

[bekah-reading]

It’s Summerween! ❤️❤️❤️💕🎉

My planned TBR

1. Horror Movie

2. The Only Good Indians

3. My Heart is a Chainsaw (reread)

4. Sundial

5. Goth

6. Certain Dark Things

7. The Eyes are the Best Part

Honourable Mentions/ Add Ons

1. The Haunted Zone

2. Dracula’s Child

3. The Hacienda

4. The Devil in Silver (reread)

5. The Vampires of El Norte

6. My Darling Dreadful Thing

7. Leech

8. Meddling Kids

9. Dead Eleven

This is very ambitious for the 5th to midnight of the 11/12th. Thankfully I know I’m not gonna read all of it- but you never know what you’re in the mood for as you do these things so I’m planning a TBR, but I have tons of options.

I still have one prompt I need to fill- Night sky on the cover, because I don’t really have any books that have a night sky on it.