I managed to improve on my June reading of just 7 books, and in July read 11 books, 1 sampler, and 2 children’s short stories 🙂
Having failed my challenge to read at least 2 paperbacks a month, for two months in a row, I managed 3 physical books in July, thanks to the help of my six year old niece, who came to stay for a few days last week 🙂
The Fox and the Star is such a beautiful book. I bought it a few months ago and it has sat looking pretty on the spare chair in my reading room ever since ❤
I’ve not read any of the Bible since April, which is very naughty of me. I must do better!
Yippee! For the first time this year I’ve achieved my challenge to get my NetGalley shelf down to 5 books or less. I’ve got it down to just 4 books with no books pending, and of those 4 books, 3 of them aren’t published until October and November, woohoo! I’m so pleased I’ve finally done it. Now the challenge is to keep on top of it 😉
Here are the books I read in July…
5 Stars
My Review of Thirteen Reasons Why
My review of The Summer of Impossible Things
My review of Manipulated Lives
My Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
My review of Planet Scrabbage and the Vegerons
4 Stars
My review of The Fox and the Star
My review of Deadly Friendship
My review of A Skinful of Shadows (sampler)
3 Stars
My review of Underneath a Burning Sky
Well done on your NetGalley! I haven’t added to mine but I’ve knocked a couple off I’ve been hammering through the physical books though!
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Thanks, Claire 🙂 Physical books are my next real challenge. Dying to read lots of the books I’ve bought. Reckon I should be able to start reading through some of those from about September (assuming I can continue to resist the NetGalley temptation 😉 xxx
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It’s hard. I just stopped visiting NetGalley and delete the emails without opening them! I really want to reduce my pile of what I have already! We can do it!!
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My NetGalley hates me there are so many books sitting needing read….
I am with you on the Bible reading and feel terrible about it, the most I am reading atm are the daily verses I get sent to my phone
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Fingers crossed we’re both a little better behaved with Bible reading over the coming months 😉 xxx
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What a great month for reading and brilliant about your NetGalley shelf! What’s your secret?
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I’ve been really strict with myself and hardly added any new books to NetGalley, while forcing myself to work through the remaining books in publication date order. If I can stick to my own rule of having no more than 5 books on my NetGalley shelf at any one time, I should never get behind again. Let’s see how I’m doing by the end of the year. I suspect Christmas books will be tempting me in a month of two 😉
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That’s a really good idea and when I’ve cleared my back log I must do something similar.
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