It’s almost September! Whaaaaat??! It’s my absolute favorite month of the year. For me, it doesn’t matter that the first actual day of fall isn’t until September 23rd, it totally starts on September 1st. Not to mention it’s my BIRTHDAY MONTH!! (Eleven days today!) Also: the pumpkin spice latte returns to Starbucks on September 8th! Yesssss. And I’m going to the beach in twelve days. (Well, and October, too!) There are just a ton of things to look forward to in September.
So today, as it is the last day of August, I bring you: August’s monthly recap.
books read this month
I read nine books this month. I’m pretty proud of myself. In July, I read eleven (if you look at the recap for July, it says ten, but I finished one the day that post went up), and I didn’t even have school that month. That said, a few blog-related things (comments, emails, ARC’s piling up, etc., etc.) have kind of gotten out of control… but I did not let that stop me from reading! ALSO: If you haven’t noticed… I finished my 2015 reading goal.
Soooo my goal was fifty books. Sounds fair, right? That’s about one book a week. Well, so far there have been thirty-five weeks in the year and I read fifty, so that’s about 1.42 books a week. (Average, of course.) Sometimes I read three books in a month (pathetic, right?) and sometimes I read eleven. It all just depends. Either way, I finished my goal four months early and I’M PROUD! I’m thinking for 2016, I’ll make my goal seventy or eighty books. Whaddya think?
SO! These are the books I read in August:
By the way, I messed up that order so up top, I read The False Prince first, and then on bottom I read The Runaway King first… so in order of which books I read first to last this month, go from top right-to-left, and bottom right-to-left. 😉 Basically: ALL OF THESE BOOKS WERE AWESOME. I’ve written reviews for all of them on Goodreads (click the link to click on the book you want to read its review) if you want to get a head start and read them, or you can wait for September (and part of October) for them on the blog.
what happened on the blog
Remember the highlights this past month when…
- Audrey tagged me for the infinity dreams award
- I hosted a giveaway for The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest
- I talked about switching POV’s in books
- I interviewed the lovely Rachel Coker
- I began a new feature with Trisha called Monthly Must-Reads
what happened on YOUR blogs
- Madison wrote a poem called “Boredom” (I loved the rhythm of it!)
- Audrey talks about finishing first drafts (I bookmarked the page because it’s so helpful!)
- Daisy helps guys out with four pick-up lines a fangirl would fall hard for! (Yes. Just yes.)
- Trisha compared book slumps and blogger’s block & gave tips for getting past it (Very helpful; I agree 100%)
- Amanda talked about romance, and why she values it, and marriage. (THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Amanda, for this post! Everyone, please take a few minutes to read it. It sums up everything I feel about romance myself.)
cool things i did in august
- started back to school…. and had my first day back to home-school co-op! 😉
- Hung out with my aunt and baby cousin Abbie
- got Chivalrous by Dina Sleiman in the mail! … before it hits shelves on September 8th!
- Went to a Braves game on Friday (they played against the Yankees… I’d rather not talk about how it went down.) >_<
so that was my month! what fun things did you do in august?
OH. OH, WAAAAIIIT. I know what you’re all here for. You’re here for the giveaway winner announcement, right?? Okay, well, I guess I better announce who won before too long…
The winner…
Of a paperback copy of The Huntress Of Thornbeck Forest….
Is…
Madison T.!!!!
CONGRATS, Madison! I’ll be sending you an email soon to get your address so I can mail it out to you. Thanks to everyone who entered! Hopefully there will be many more giveaways on For the Bookish to come. 🙂 Enjoy the book, Madison!
Yeah. Its been a busy month for me too. But I still read a ton of books. I think I read like 15 but I’m not sure. I should look it up…
Congrats Madison T.! Who won Dear Opel?( I’m keeping my fingers crossed..). Well I would write a longer comment but I have to get ready for school(groan).
I bet it has been busy for you! 🙂
Wow! That is a lot. It’s weird, sometimes it will be a really slow/boring month, and I’ll read very little books. Then we’ll be super busy and I’ll read a ton!
I’m not sure… it’s over, but I don’t think the publisher checked the box “show winner” in the settings for the giveaway. (That’s what I did so if anyone didn’t see this post and checked the giveaway post they would see who won.) I guess whoever got an email!
Lol. Same… I just finished school. It’s been a bit of a bad day. It’s Monday, what can I say!
Congrats on finishing your Goodreads Reading Challenge! My goal is 100 books and I am so far behind, but I’m determined to make it. Probably… 😛 Also, it looks like you had so much fun with your baby cousin. Babies are the best! And I love your positive outlook on September even though it means the end of summer and the start of school.
Thanks, Ana! I would love to read 100 books sometime… I was honestly pretty scared to make my goal that big since it was my first time even having a yearly book goal, but maybe someday, if I really put my mind to it! 😉
They are! She’s almost eight months old, on the 9th, I believe. She’s super fun!
Lol. I do try!
What?!?! I won?! Oh my goodness! Yay!
I wish I lived in Utah so I could go to one of Jennifer A Nielson’s book signings….I LOVE HER BOOKS
And you guys are the cutest! Abbie is ADORABLE!
My email is onenerdyowl@gmail.com or I can just send you my address through Pinterest 🙂
Congratulations!!! 😀
OMG, same. ME TOO. I wonder if I could order a signed book… hmm.
Haha, thanks! SHE IS! She’s only almost eight months old and look at all that hair!!
Okay, great. 🙂 I sent you an email!
Ooh, I’m just about to start the rest of the Inheritance series! Soooo excited. 😀
I also read Matched like you did. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to like it, but I liked it a lot better than I thought. I tried started the second book, though, and got really bored so I gave up on it. :p
AND YAY FOR FINISHING YOUR READING GOAL! My goal for this year is 67, but I have a secret goal of reading a hundred but I’m not sure if that will happen. :p
Ooh, what’s the Inheritance series? I’m going to look them up on Goodreads!
Ugh. I’ve heard that a lot – that the second book was boring, and the third didn’t end the way some would have liked. I hope I like it.
Thank you!!! I would make my goal a hundred… I mean, I would love to read 100 books in a year SOMEDAY, but I’m a tiny bit scared. Plus this was my first year ever doing a reading goal, so I wanted to see what I could do. Maybe next year… if I put my mind to it!!
Looks like August was a great month for you!
I finished my reading challenge too! It was 30 at first, but then I changed it to 50.
Oh, the page for MMR looks really good. I might just copy and paste it :). I’m sorry I forgot to answer that email. How about we add the upcoming theme, so people can get that post read too. Does that sound good?
It really was! 🙂
Cool! We both finished our 50-books-reading-challenge this same month!
Thanks. Haha, I wouldn’t mind. I can’t wait till next month’s theme. Speaking of, we should come up with something for it! I can’t wait to see who does MMR this month… That’s alright. I’m super bad about answering emails. Lol. 😛
That sounds good. Do you mean so people can get that post written too? I’ll send you an email so we can come up with something!
I’m so excited for the MDBC # 7 to come out! There’s a giveaway too 🙂
Me too!! Oops, #7. I just realized it’s not #8! I should correct that! Have you seen the cover?? I LOVE IT! 😀