#july reading wrap up

[theinquisitxor]

July Reading Wrap Up

July was a good reading month quality wise, but I wish I got through a couple more books than I did. I read 7 books in July-- six fantasy and one nonfiction. I completed one duology, and I overall enjoyed everything I read in July.

1.Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim 4/5 stars. This is a delightful young adult fairy tale. It was exactly the type of fantasy I was looking for after reading the Poppy War in June. This is a retelling of the fairy tale of the Wild Swans, and I thought it was very well done. However, I thought this should have just been a standalone, not stretched into a second book. I'm not planning on reading the second book, and I'm just going to treat this like a standalone. YA east asian fairy tale retelling.

2.A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories 1) by H.G. Parry. 4.5/5 stars. This is the first in an adult historical fantasy duology. This takes place from ~1780-90s and follows four perspectives across the world (characters in England, France, and Haiti). This book is very much a political fantasy, and one of the most political heavy books I've ever read. The story follows characters as they navigate and cause the geopolitical turmoil of this time period. My favorite book of July. Adult historical fantasy.

3.A Radical Act of Free Magic (The Shadow Histories 2) by H. G. Parry 4/5 stars. The conclusion to this duology was just as good as book 1, and follows many of our same characters through the Napoleonic wars. Slightly less politics and a little more action in this one, but still very good. The way magic fits into the historical narrative of this story is just so clever. Adult historical fantasy.

4.The Isles of the Gods (The Isles of the Gods 1) by Amie Kaufman 3/5 stars. This is a new young adult fantasy book that I've been looking forward to for a while. It was a fun, seafaring fantasy story, but I found it lacking in the characters and some aspects of the world-building. I did really enjoy the early 1900s industrial revolution setting-- I thought that was unique. While I found aspects of this book weak, I'll still probably read the next book (whenever it comes out). YA high fantasy.

5.The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 4/5 stars. Whenever I pick up a new Silvia Moreno-Garcia I know that it's going to be quite different from the previous SGM book, but I know I'm most likely going to enjoy it. That was exactly the case with The Beautiful Ones. The beginning of this book took me a little while to get into, but once I was invested, I didn't want to put it down. The second half of this book was by far the strongest, and I really enjoyed the romance. Adult Historical Fantasy.

6.The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson. This was my nonfiction, for the month and I wanted a literal beach read while at the beach. This is a foundational piece of nature literature by the prolific writer and conservationist Rachel Carson. This was published in 1950, so I'm not sure how much of the scientific detail is actually still accurate but I read this for the writing and the legacy of the work (there are so many good quotes and passages from this book too). Nonfiction.

7.Elantris by Brandon Sanderson 4/5 stars. In my slow attempt to read the Cosmere, I picked up this. I read this half on audio, half physical book. I ended up enjoying this much more than I thought I would. This may be one of my favorite Sanderson works that I've read. There were a lot of tropes and characters that I enjoyed. Adult high fantasy.

That's all for July! I'm looking forward to the books I'm planning on reading in August, included under the cut!

August books?

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Skyhunter duology by Marie Lu

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Fifth Season by NK Jemison

#reading wrap up #july reading wrap up #books #fantasy books #brandon sanderson #elantris #six crimson cranes #elizabeth lim #a declaration of the rights of magicians #hg parry #the beautiful ones #silvia moreno garcia #books read #my post

[tolive1000lives]

My 2023 reading wrap up through July!

#bookblr #reading journal #books #book blog #reading challenge #reading challenge 2023 #book stack #book stacks #book spine #book spines #wrap up #july wrap up #reading wrap up #July reading wrap up #bookworm #bibliophile #reading #reading list #read

[aspiringpolymath]

July 2023 Reading Wrap Up

I've been pondering starting a bookish instagram, but in the likely event I never do, here are the monthly wrap up images I made for July 2023. (If it doesn't have a rating it just means it was too short or too . . . personal? to easily rate. I didn't track DNFs on these graphics, but I DNF'ed seven books.

*sigh*

Of course, I wrote a bunch of stuff about the books here, but then tumblr ate my words. So, on the off chance you have a question about anything I read, let me know.

I might keep posting here, if no one minds and I find it easy enough to keep up with. I'm hoping to make the graphics a little less rough and ready in future.

Also, I will list the books for accessibility purposes.

Indelicacy by Amina Cain - libby - novella - 3.5 stars

Assembly by Natasha Brown -libby - novella - 5 stars

Red’s Wolf by Beth Laycock - freeb - novella - 3.5 stars

Sergeant Delicious by Annabeth Albert - freeb - re-read - short - 3.5 stars

Sea Lover by J.K. Pendragon - smashwords - novella - 4 stars

45 and Holding by Jacki James and Jill Wexler - ku - 4 stars

The Stablemaster’s Heart by Sarah Honey - arc - 4.5 stars

Kiss Me Like You Mean It by Jacki James - ku - novella - 2.5 stars

Overtime by Marina Vivancos - arc - 3 stars

A Lifetime Kissing You by Riley Hart - ku - 4.25 stars

Like a Charm by Jordan Castillo Price - ku - short - 2.5 stars

The River’s Edge by Jordan Castillo Price - ku - short - 3 stars

The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer by S. E. Harmon - arc - 3.75 stars

Not Over You by Samantha Wayland - ku - novella - 3.5 stars

Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram - libby - 5 stars

Nothing Special by Jay Northcote - audio re-read - 4.25 stars

Open Throat by Henry Hoke - audiobook - novella - 4.25 stars

Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame - library - 3.75 stars

Sincerely Harriet by Sarah W. Searle - mg - graphic novel - library - 3 stars

Dirty Slide by KD Casey and Lauren Blakely - audiobook - novella - 3.5 stars

Ephemera by Briana Loewensohn - graphic memoir - library - no rating

Rockstar and Softboy by Sina Grace - graphic novel - hoopla - 3.5 stars

Like I Needed by Charlie Novak - ku - 3.75 stars

Dirty Steal by KD Casey and Lauren Blakely- audiobook - novella - 3.75 stars

The (Pet) Detective Agency by Noji - manga - hoopla - 3.5 stars

Love & Vermin by Will McPhail - cartoons - hoopla - 4.25 stars

It’s Paradise, Baby by KD Ryan - novella - 4 stars

Out in the Country by Alexandra Hale - ku - novella - 3.5 stars

Second Chance at First Love by N.R. Walker - ku - novella - 3.5 stars

An Exception by Megan Derr - hoopla - short - 3.5 stars

Use as Wallpaper by Glenn Quigley - freeb - short - 4.25 stars

Five Dares by Eli Easton - 1 star (for extenuating reasons, have liked other stuff by the author)

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera - own/hoopla audio - mg - 4 stars

Mistletango by Alexandra Caluen - hoopla - 4 stars

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood - graphic novel - libby - ya - 4 stars

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood - hoopla - graphic memoir - 4.25 stars

Quest of Fools by Megan Derr - smashwords - 3.25 stars

Fairy Wings by Sasha L. Miller - smashwords - novella - 3.5 stars

Deal Maker by Lily Morton - audiobook re-read - 4 stars - more frustrating in audio

Riding the Wave by Daria Fisher - sapphic short - freeb smashwords - too short to rate, really

Thieves by Lucie Bryon - graphic novel - f/f - ya - library - 4.25 stars

Aug 9 - Fog by Kathryn Scanlan - libby - too strange to rate

The Best Men by Sarina Bowen and Lauren Blakely - ku - 4.5 stars - very expertly done

Garbage by Reese Morrison - arc/ku - 3 stars

Fine by Rhea Ewing - graphic non-fiction - library - 4.5 stars

Silent Sin by E.J. Russell - audiobook - 4 stars

Sweat Connection by Katherine McIntyre - arc - 4 stars

#reading wrap up #july reading wrap up #lgbtq+ romance mainly #i read a lot

[ckmstudies]

July Reading Wrap-Up!

First time doing this so I hope you enjoy seeing what I've read :)

Ladies of The House: 254/376 pages read in July. Physical book finished on 7/12. A fun retelling! Review 3.5/5 stars.

Throttled: 151/376 pages read in July. Reading on Kindle Unlimited. This is a stupid book but its definitely a fun trash read! Estimating a 3/5 stars.

The Paris Apartment: 205/360 pages read in July. Listening through Libby. I was really enjoying this until my loan from the library ran out and I had to return it :( my hold is up in six weeks. Estimating a 4/5 stars.

The Roughest Draft: 313/313 pages read in July. Physical book finished 7/25. My perfect summer romance book! Review (coming soon!) 4.5/5 stars.

Just My Type: 186/341 pages read in July. Physical book. This is a stupid book and not in a good way :( very disappointing. Estimating a 2/5 stars.

The Darkest Part of The Forest: 324/324 pages read in July. Physical book finished on 7/26. My hyperfixation reread of the month that I zoomed through in under 15 hours. 5/5 stars.

Books finished: 3 (average rating: 4.33/5 stars)

Books picked up: 6

Pages read: 1,433

What did you read in July?

#reading wrap up #july reading wrap up #bookblr #book #books #books and reading #books books books #bookworm #i'm so glad i fully got back into reading these past two months #also ill only do reviews for physical books i read unless i read something else where that's just phenomenal for some reason haha #mine

[magpiex-reads]

I read four books this month✨️

Currently reading:

Once and Future witches

The time I got drunk and saved a demon

Dracula (via dracula daily)

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

20,000 leagues under the sea

The thread that binds

#booklr #reading wrap up #july reading wrap up #stephanie garber #caraval #the house in the cerulean sea #wotakoi #love is hard for otaku #prison healer #the gilded cage #current reads

[codenamebooks]

July Reading Wrap Up

I'm so behind, where has the summer gone? The only book I finished this month was

It's Not Summer Without You (Summer #2) by Jenny Han | Goodreads

and I loved it so much. I felt so many feelings that I hadn't in so long with reading. I literally started reading another book right after this one and haven't finished it yet because it wasn't giving exactly what I needed it to. I was crying, I was laughing, I was giggling, I was angry, I was relieved. Plus, it ends on a cliffhanger, like Jenny Han is known for.

#july reading wrap up #it's not summer without you #summer trilogy #jenny han #goodreads

[crimsoneons]

JULY READING WRAP UP:

I only managed to read through Erha 1, but it was really good! I also made it through half of Stars of Chaos!

AUGUST TBR:

Stars of Chaos, Save the Cat writer a ya novel, and Peach Blossom Debt

AUGUST BOOK HAUL:

Erha 2, Save the Cat Writes a YA Novel, The Only Worldbuilding Book You'll Need, Le Morte d'Arthur, Howl's Moving Castle, The Complete Language of Flowers

#reading #august tbr #july reading wrap up #book haul

[samireads]

July wrap up 📚😗

#July 2023 #2023 reads #all the lovers in the night #mieko kawakami #crying in h mart #michelle zauner #Nevada #imogen binnie #japanese lit #reading #books #bookblr #bookstagram #wrap up

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - July 31st - Read in July

I finally had a good reading month! mostly because I listened to a bunch of stuff on audiobook! but oh gosh, it feels so good to have been reading again <3 I missed this feeling 🥰

#read last month #july wrap up #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #2023

[asexualbookbird]

I read seven (7) books in July! How exciting! And four of them were on my goals list for the month! Still didn't get to The Unconquered City, but I'll just throw that into August goals. I didn't feel great this month, so I spent a lot of down time reading. Forced bed rest does wonders for your reading habits haha

I also played a couple of fun games! A Little to the Left is a fun puzzle game where you organize things in various ways and sometimes a cat comes and ruins your day. There's also a level where you just pet the cat. Very fun, very calming, 10/10, do recommend. Superliminal is another puzzle game that was WEIRD and definitely did not made me cry a bit. Also fun, but would not recommend it if you get dizzy easily.

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A reread, but I enjoyed it even more the second time around! I appreciated Denna more now that I wasn't suspicious of her haha

Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful, spoke to me, a delightful little standalone graphic novel, love that asexual rep

TAZ: The Eleventh Hour by The McElroys and Carey Pietsch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was my favorite TAZ arc and they adapted it in such a clever way! Love how they did the many death loops!

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune ⭐⭐ not my favorite of Klunes novels, I wasn't invested in any of the characters, and the dialogue did not do it for me

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oh gosh, for a book I was on the fence about reading, I'm so glad I read this. What an emotional ride, I've already got book three on my desk.

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ow. lol. This is what Black Wings Beating should have been. A perfect little chunk of a novella.

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros ⭐⭐This was not a fantasy with romantic elements, this was a romance with fantasy elements, which is Fine, but not my thing. It did not need to be as long as it was, and YET. Also. Give me more dragons.

If all goes right for August I will also be on best rest for a bit but for Good Reasons, and will finally read The Unconquered City after all this time. My friend lent my Iron Widow too so I'm excited to jump into that! I took a couple books out of the library, and while I don't know if I'll make it to book club, we're reading Tress of the Emerald Sea by Snunderson so. Guess I'll read that too lol I'm putting good energy into August, life has got to turn around at some point and I am making it NOW.

#bookbird babbles #reading wrap up #july wrap up #monthly wrap up #books #booklr #if the stars align i will have surgery to finally remove my port!!!! #no more stabby every month!!!!!!!! #they said they'll try to get me in by the end of the month!!!!!!!!!!!!! #they put it in in 2014 and its been hell since day one lmao #i'll miss the folks at the clinic but sorry not sorry i will not miss being stabbed

[godzilla-reads]

Happy End of July, my friends! What have y’all been reading this month? I read 15 books this month, bringing my yearly total to 100 BOOKS!! Can you believe it?!

Anyway, here’s the list of books I read this month, with my Top 3 Starred.

• Riders of Fire and Ice by Brett Salter

• The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

• Jack in the Green by Charles de Lint

• One Foot in the Green by Brett Manning

• Icefire by Chris d’Lacey

• Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris

• Something About a Bear by Jackie Morris

• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez ⭐️

• Queen of the Sky by Jackie Morris

• The Super Secret Monster Experiment by Tian En

• 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle and Lian Cho

• The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan edited by Michael Wheatley ⭐️

• M is for Monster by Talia Dutton ⭐️

• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter

Did you enjoy your books this month?

#godzilla reads #reading wrap up #books read in July #books read in 2023 #books read in July 2023 #reading #booklr #bookworm #bookish #book blog #booklover

[bookaddict24-7]

☀️July Reading Wrap-Up: I read 28 books in July, but most were from the library! Here are the physical copies of some of the books I read! ☀️

#books #book wrap up #bookish #booklr #bookstack #bookworm #bookaholic #July reading #summer reading #reading update #book blog #book blogger #Features #on books #on reading #read #reader #reading #bookshelves #book aesthetic

[tolive1000lives]

My July reading wrap up! I ended up have a good amount of unexpected free time this month so I made lemonade by making a dent in my TBR pile! I’m only missing The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches which I got from the library!

#bookblr #reading challenge 2023 #reading challenge #july wrap up #July reading wrap up #reading wrap up #books #book blog #bookworm #book stack #book spines #book spine #book stacks #reading list #bibliophile #reading #read #book journal #reading journal

[princessofmanyfaces]

July Wrap-Up

🗓️ I've read 12 books in June 2023, DNF'd 2

⭐ My reading experience was an average of 3.5 - 4 stars, a good month.

📝Most prominent author was Lauren Asher and Jennifer Lynn Barnes

📚 Books read in 2023: 72/52 - 138%

#book blog #bookblr #booklr #booklover #reading #book recommendations #booksbooksbooks #book review #books & libraries #reader #reading goal #short reads #books and reading #long reads #shallyne reads #book rec #bookshelf #bookworm #books #july wrap up #July reading wrap up #Reading wrap up

[franticvampirereads]

July has been super busy! So I mostly read ebooks this month. Which is nice, because my ebook TBR just continues grow. So here’s what I read this month:

Psycho 5 ⭐️ {review}

Psycho bonus epilogue 5 ⭐️ {see above}

Muscles & Monsters 3.5 ⭐️ {review}

Heavy Vinyl Y2KO! 4 ⭐️ {review}

Coyote vol 1 5 ⭐️ {review}

Winter’s Orbit 5 ⭐️ {review}

Nothing To Lose 4 ⭐️ {review}

I think my favorite books this month have to go to Psycho and Wonter’s Orbit. Both were phenomenal and I have all the feels for them.

I also did the 20 Book Challenge thingy here, if you’re interested! 😊

#booklr #july wrap up #books #reading #july reads #read #book #bookish #bookworm #monthly wrap up #lgbtq+ books #queer books #romance books #Psycho #necessary evils series #muscles & monsters #heavy vinyl #heavy vinyl y2ko! #coyote manga #winter's orbit #nothing to lose #contemporary romance book #dark romance #lgbtq+ scifi books #monster romance books #manga #graphic novels #queer and disabled books #urban fantasy books

[slaughter-books]

Day 31: JOMPBPC: Read In July

My incredible July, 2023 reading wrap-up! 💙

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #read in july #july 2023 #reading wrap up #love in winter wonderland #abiola bello #the elemental detectives #patrice lawrence #jurassic park #the lost world #michael crichton #frizzy #claribel a. ortega #rose bousamra #check please #sticks and scones #ngozi ukazu #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #bookish #ariel #the little mermaid #i love books