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

The weather has been great, my hip is improving little by little every day and the reading has also been very good.  So, in the past week I read The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford which was very good fun, I also read and thoroughly enjoyed Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher.  I’m a third into The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine and I’m also a third into Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham so doing quite well with my August review books.  I also managed to post three reviews last week so making steady progress with that as well.  I’ve not been doing much blog hopping but hoping to catch up with everything over the next few days.

Next Week’s reads

Complete Forget Me Not and The Dead Husband Cookbook and move on to Aphrodite by Phoenicia Rogerson and then maybe The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso.  (Which perhaps seems like a lot but I’ve already made a good dent into the first two.

Reviews Posted:

1. It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
2. My Ex, the AntiChrist by Craig DiLouie
3. Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan

Outstanding Reviews

My Monthly Wrap Up:

Books read in July:

1. Paved With Good Intentions by Peter McLean
2. The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno Garcia
3. The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
4. The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
5. It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
6. My Ex, the AntiChrist by Craig DiLouie
7. Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan
8. The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw – DNF
9. Fateless by Julie Kagawa
10. The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford

I’ve had a very good reading month reading 10 books, I completed my July review books and even made a dent in my August reads.  I did have a DNF – The Library at Hellebore – which really didn’t work for me.

Here’s what I’m hoping to read in August:

1. The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine
2. The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford – already read
3. Aphrodite by Phoenicia Rogerson
4. The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso
5. Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher – already read
6. Damned by Genevieve Cogman
7. This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May
8. Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham

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

Bookforager‘s Picture Prompt book bingo.

and the text version:

PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2025 (TEXT VERSION)

Today, I’m ticking off another two prompts.  No. 3 – an apple on a leafy branch – I’m using Hemlock and Silver for this one by T Kingfisther (if you’ve already read this you’ll know why) and I’m also ticking off No.10 – A Sheaf of Wheat – which I’m using The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst – because those greenhouses are amazing and everything grows there.

The prompts I’ve crossed off so far:

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: 54