I’m trying to post a wrap up for the end of each month, mainly to help me to keep track of my reading and at the same time look at what I’m intending to read during the month ahead (inspired by Books Bones and Buffy’s What’s on My Plate.

This month’s wrap up post will be a bit messy again like last month’s because I’m combining it with my weekly wrap up.

Weekly Update

Well, I’ve had my six week check up and my hip is progressing well.  I’ve not been using any walking aids for about three weeks and I’ve been keeping up with the exercises and so far so good.  In the past week I continued with some of my September reads and completed  No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes which started a little slow and then won me over, The Ghosts of Merry Hall by Heather Davey which I did have a few issues with and I also read A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by Stephanie Burgis – which I really enjoyed and crammed into one delicious sitting.

Next Week’s reads

I shall be continuing with my September review books so will be picking up The Faerie Morgana by Louisa Morgan, No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead and maybe I’ll have time for a third and check out The Naked Light by Bridget Collins.

Reviews Posted:

1. Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
2. A Tangle of Time (The Hexologists #2) by Josiah Bancroft

Outstanding Reviews

My Monthly Wrap Up:

Books read in August:

1. The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine
2. Hemlock and Silver  by T Kingfisher
3. Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham
4. Damned by Genevieve Cogman
5. This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May
6. Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
7.  The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time by Josiah Bancroft
8. This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
9. No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes
10. The Ghosts of Merry Hall by Heather Davey
11. A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by Stephanie Burgis

I’ve had a very good reading month reading 11 books, I completed all my August review books and even made a dent in some of my September reads.  No DNFs this month fortunately.

Here’s what I’m hoping to read in September (and I’ve already read three so should be able to tuck into my October books all going well – good thing too as I have quite a few books that month):

1. No Friend to this House by Natalie Haynes – read rtf
2. The Ghosts of Merry Hall by Heather Davey – read rtf
3. The Faerie Morgana by Louisa Morgan
4. No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead
5. The Naked Light by Bridget Collins
6. A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by Stephanie Burgis – read rtf

Lets just be honest – I’m not doing well so far – I need to give my head a big 0wobble.

Bookforager‘s Picture Prompt book bingo.

and the text version:

PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2025 (TEXT VERSION)

Today, I’m ticking off another prompt.  No. 16 – A Roman helmet – and I’m using This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara.

The prompts I’ve crossed off so far:

No. 3 – an apple on a leafy branch – Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisther

No.10 – A Sheaf of Wheat – The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst –

No. 11 – An Old Mechanical Typewriter – The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno Garcia

No.8 – The ruins of a temple-like structure – I’m using Daughter of Chaos by A S Webb

No. 12 – A cluster of four mushrooms – I’m using Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

No. 13 – A fringed umbrella/parasol – I’m using A Fortune Most Fatal by Jessica Bull

No.14 – A chemistry set-up of bottles and tubes – I’m using Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis

No.9 – A Crab – I’m using The Devils by Joe Abercrombie – if you’ve read this already you’ll be able to guess why.  There are some very unusual creatures in this story.

No.6 – A Human Skull – I’m using The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North – because this is about a serial killer and there are definite human remains included in this one.

Number of books read this year: 63