#july wrap up

[sitp-recs]

Happy Friday, friends! I’ve never done monthly wrap ups before but since Wireless pulled me back from a brief hiatus, I thought it would be cool to share some things I’ve been reading, that could use more love. 10 fics both old and new, Drarry and rare pairs, Wireless treats; pick your poison and have fun! 🙌

Drarry

Muscle Memory by @corvuscrowned (E, 7k) - brilliant concept perfectly executed, I’m so here for curse-breaking colleagues who fuck at the job to pass time and then forget about it every time 🤌🏼 genius and intriguing and captivating as per crow’s usual

There's something just beneath the surface, just at the periphery of Harry's mind. They've been here before — they've done this before. If only he could remember it.

And Embers at Your Lips by @nametheshadows (T, 15k) - sequel to one of my all-time favorite 8th year fics with insomniac roommates just as soft and healing as LLAYF. Gorgeous prose and all the kissing. Highly rec this series for A+ comfort food!

The sequel to Like Lightning at Your Fingertips: the kissing montage. And there’s that thing with Potter’s magic.

Rich Friend, Anon (E, 18k) - one of my faves from Wireless, pop star!Draco never gets old and both the pacing and the romance are perfectly developed! I live for Harry’s horny yearning and for their road trip together, kudos to casual Harry/Neville as a side ship!

As far as Harry can tell, Draco Malfoy is still rich as hell. He’s just not a wizard anymore. Featuring: Draco Malfoy trying to make it as a Muggle pop star, Harry Potter as our confused and horny hero, bad driving, good music, and the mysterious magic of falling for someone.

Waking Up Slow, Anon (E, 22k) - this ode to advent Drarry fics took my breath away with a charming Draco, fun dynamics, an enchanting Christmas shop and one of the sexiest smut scenes I’ve read this year, 10/10 recommend for hot & sweet magical vibes and lots of references as an homage to the classics!

'Twas the night before Christmas, although it’s July / Draco’s a shopkeeper, no-one knows why / There’s hiking and witch caves, freak snowfalls and more / Bad Christmas jumpers, nosy neighbours galore / Narcissa’s here too, but… something’s amiss / And what’s in those chocolates that’s making them kiss?

We Are Legend by Vaysh (E, 38k) - happy to report to @romaine2424 that I have finally read this epic apocalypse AU and am shooketh with its originality and serious tone. One of the most creative takes I’ve seen on animagus Draco, a poignant and devastating war story.

Eighty years into the future, Voldemort won. Harry Potter is a renegade wizard, Portkeying Muggles out of London to Hogwarts, last sanctuary in a Britain ruled by the Dark Lord. On a mission he encounters a powerful phoenix Animagus fighting on the Death Eaters' side. He recognises Draco Malfoy whom he thought long dead. But the differences between them are perhaps even greater than before. Cw: MCD

LA, Who Am I To Love You?, Anon (E, 42k) - I cannot believe this beauty was written for my lil Wireless prompt ♥️ perfect LA vibes, gorgeous aesthetics, horny ust and a fascinating take on both down and out bi Harry and out and proud bi Draco, we love to see it! Couldn’t have asked for a better story to fill my prompt, ty anon!

Harry’s summer in LA is not going as expected. Pansy Parkinson keeps inviting him to parties in the Hollywood Hills and harassing him to finally go to the physical therapist, Blaise Zabini keeps slipping new strains of his company’s magical weed into Harry’s pockets in hopes of an endorsement, and Draco Malfoy keeps having sex with everyone but Harry.

Rare Pairs

A Different Tune by November Snowflake (M, 8k) - very nice Dron get together, short & sweet with an undercurrent melancholy that I love, just what I needed before bed

Working in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office has led Ron to many strange encounters--but none more unexpected than this one. Cw: Harry’s dead

The Years Between by brummell (M, 14k) - another rare pair fave, this Rarry fic told from Ron’s smitten and jealous pov as he helps Harry recover from a coma is so deliciously raw and angsty. Gorgeous slow burn, the feels!

For both Harry and Ron, a wake-up call is just the beginning.

Things Remembered by avioleta (E, 17k) - best Snarry fic I’ve read this year, I’m low key obsessed with this hitmen + amnesia concept and how the romance develops so organically while they’re on the run. Intriguing plot, sexy ust and super scorching smut that made me salivate jfc 🔥

Harry wakes up in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar hotel room, and with absolutely no idea who he is. The man he’s in bed with has no memories either. But they think, maybe, they’re assassins, because they seem to be very good at killing people.

A Dress with Pockets by PacificRimbaud (E, 25k) - a Panville classic recced by anon (ty!!), what a sexy and vibrant read! I LOVED Neville and their dynamics are brilliant and so funny, I just couldn’t get enough of these characters. 100% sold on this ship pls and thank

Pansy Parkinson needed a drink. And a shag. She didn't care in which order. Enter: Neville fucking Longbottom and his rolled up sleeves.

#July wrap up #hp recs

[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

[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

[poetic-gays]

July Wrap-Up:

- The Night Circus: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Starless Sea (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Red, White & Royal Blue (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Glitterland: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Charm Offensive: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Melt With You: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Immortal Longings: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- These Violent Delights (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Our Violent Ends (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Heartstopper vol 1 (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Heartstopper vol 2 (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Haircut (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Moments (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Teachers (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Carmilla: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#book #books #bookblr #book tumblr #reader #readers #readers of tumblr #july reads #july wrap up #july books #heartstopper #the charm offensive #the night circus #paris daillencourt is about to crumble #alexis hall

[aliteraryprincess]

July 2023 Wrap Up

July was a great month. We had a wonderful weeklong vacation in Gloucester, MA with my in-laws, celebrated the two year anniversary of adopting our cats, and got to spend plenty of time with friends. I certainly can't complain about my summer so far!

Books Read: 15

Look at me go! My favorite new read was The Travelling Cat Chronicles, which is now my favorite book of the year. I also learned upon rereading Mansfield Park that I actually really like it. And of course I had a great time rereading my ultimate comfort books: the All for the Game series. My least favorite was Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, which I found completely disappointing. I like Rich's prose works a lot, but her poetry doesn't agree with me. Books marked with ® are rereads.

The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant by Margaret Oliphant - 3.5 stars

Under Two Flags by Ouida - 3.5

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen - 4 stars

Blush: Faces of Shame by Elspeth Probyn - 3 stars

Thief Liar Lady by D. L. Soria - 5 stars

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 by Adrienne Rich - 2 stars

Cujo by Stephen King - 5 stars

The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood - 4 stars

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - 5 stars ®

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - 5 stars

A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by James Edward Austen-Leigh, edited by Kathryn Sutherland - 4 stars

The Guest List by Lucy Foley - 4 stars

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

The Raven King by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

The King's Men by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

On Tumblr:

Look, I have things here! I've started posting book photos again, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. There are also some lovely pictures of the cats taken at the kennel where they boarded during our vacation. I highly recommend checking them out because my boys are adorable (and clearly I'm not biased at all).

June Wrap Up

Tagged: Mid-Year Book Freak Out

Book Photography: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Book Photography: Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

Book Photography: Vacation Book Haul!

Book Photography: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Book Quotes: The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood

Book Quotes: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Cat Photography: Butters and Pippin at the Kennel

aliteraryprincess' 40 Classics to Read Before 40

On YouTube:

Not as much here as usual because I took a week off from filming during the vacation. But to make up for it I have an almost hour long video ranting about Twilight, so 🤷‍♀️

Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag 2023

June Wrap Up - 13 books!!!

Currently Reading 7/16/23

Rereading the Twilight Saga as an Adult

August TBR

Fairy Tale Friday: The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood

#book photography #booklr #july wrap up #books #monthly wrap up #mansfield park #jane austen #a memoir of jane austen #james edward austen leigh #the travelling cat chronicles #hiro arikawa #all for the game #nora sakavic #the foxhole court #the raven king #the king's men #the shadow in the glass #jja harwood #the guest list #lucy foley #snapshots of a daughter-in-law #adrienne rich #the autobiography of margaret oliphant #margaret oliphant #thief liar lady #d l soria #cujo #stephen king

[calming-chaos]

#July wrap up #book blog #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookshelves #bookstagram #booktok #bibliophile #booklovers #bookstack #bookworm #book aesthetic #smutty books #dark romance #sophie lark #ana huang #penelope douglas

[scatteredstrings]

July Reading List Wrap Up

Completed

Anywhere by alexandra_emerson

fever dreaming by mrsren

hello, lover by mrsren

Northern Exposure by Pia_Bartolini

Season Pass (To This Ass) by mightbewriting

Sweat the Battle by ikorous

Ten out of Ten by morriganmercy

they couldn't have protected you from anything by AdAsttra

Truths of a Liar by excludednarrative

One-Shots

Accidental Voyeur series by belladeexx

Closet Confessions by magical_traveler

Come Fly With Me by belladeexx

Filled with Love by belladeexx

Kissing Bottle by belladeexx

Lie to Me by belladeexx

Love, Draco by belladeexx

oil on canvas by KeerthiWrites

Sex & Healing Potions by sodamnrad

Tear The Moon by Maria81, Pia_Bartolini

The Second Time Around by In_Dreams

The Taste of Ink by ambpersand

The Virtue of a Good Witch by viridianatnight

WIP

A Chance to Choose by forgotten_traveler

A Clock With No Numbers by ThebeMoon

A Darker Blue by skitter

A Game of High Stakes by In_Dreams

A Secret That Can Kill by BlueZeldana

All Live To Die by Musyc

Don't Look Back by Onyx_and_Elm

Expect to be Accosted by Catmint and Thyme (Languish_Locked_in_L)

Felled by You by belladeexx

find me, my silhouette by viridianatnight

in your mind / out of mine by ambpersand

Incognito by In_Dreams

Let The Dark In by senlinyu

love is a kind of warfare by AdAsttra

Need Your Demons by ThedreamerandTheDance

On Pineapples and Principal Penetration by ChaosAndCrumpets

Pros and Cons by ChaosAndCrumpets

REBORN by its_banannaz

Shivering with Antici – SAY IT! – pation by MistressLynn

The Fume of Sighs by ikorous

the night train by AdAsttra

The Wrong Choice by BlueZeldana

They Were… by magical_traveler

This Bitter Earth by ikorous

Under a Pisces Moon by sweetestsorrows (katschako)

Where You Tend a Rose by AdAsttra

#ao3 reads #dramione #hermione x draco #July Reading List #July Wrap Up #Wrap Up

[ismahanescorner]

July Wrap-up!

well, well, well… i lost interest and forgot to update this blog! 😭😅

Books:

Love Match: DNF

The Magic Fish: DNF

Loveless: DNF

Shows & Movies:

The Last Queen: 9/10 🌟

Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol.3): 7/10 🌟

yeah… reading didn’t go all that well in the month of july! 🥴

#booknerd #bookworm #bookstagram #booklover #books #book review #july wrap up

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Read in July 2023

so, I had no luck with my series reads, but everything else was so good! it’s been lots of fun reading a heap of stuff via audiobook, it’s really helped restore my confidence in my reading. and it’s also just so much faster 😅 think I might be doing it more and more 👀

Series read: 1. All the Stars and Teeth duology by Adalyn Grace    1. All the Stars and Teeth - DNF 2. The Grimrose Girls duology by Laura Pohl    1. The Grimrose Girls - DNF

Familiar authors: 1. The Honeys by Ryan La Sala - 3/5 (audio) 2. Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall - DNF 3. These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall - 5/5 4. Luminous by Mara Rutherford - 3/5 (audio) 5. Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall - 5/5

Other reads: - Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R Shrum & Sara Waxelbaum - 4/5 - Would You Rather? by Allison Ashley - 4/5 (audio) - The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch - 4/5 (audio) - Just As You Are by Camille Kellogg - 5/5 - Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore - 4/5 (audio) - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - 5/5 (reread, up from 4/5) - Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi - 3/5

#read last month #july wrap up #2023 #trcc original #book reviews

[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

[bookishlyvintage]

everything I read in July [& my thoughts]

#july wrap up #book stack #stack challenge #books #cozy reads #arc #nintendo switch #story of seasons #sos awl #sosawl #cozy gamer #cozy games #bookblr #booklr #bookish #book lover #book nerd #reading #currently reading #fantasy #romance #domestic fiction #sweater weather

[princessofbookaholics]

July was a slumpy month. It started out strong with Per My Last Email and Places We've Never Been being among the best books I've read this year but then after the disaster that was The Penalty Box I hit a slump, got into a bunch of other genres but I feel like after that book I'm not getting the feeling of reading a romance book ever again! It was SO BAD (giving it 2 stars is being generous)! Fingers crossed August is better! Here's the wrap up:

Pretty Little Wife ⭐⭐

Per My Last Email ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Spin the Dawn ⭐⭐⭐

Places We've Never Been ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Paris Apartment ⭐⭐⭐

The Island of Monsters ⭐⭐⭐

The Penalty Box ⭐⭐

The Island Villa ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Eight Perfect Murders ⭐⭐⭐

The Four Winds ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Liar's Girl ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Untouched Crime ⭐⭐⭐

#books #booklr #book #reading #read #bookworm #reads #bookaholic #bookaddict #july wrap up #read in july 2023 #july reads #2023 reads

[freckles-and-books]

July Wrap-up

#july wrap up #monthly wrap up #mine

[millennialgrandma]

July Wrap Up

Let's just all collectively agree to ignore the fact that my July post is coming to you live from the sunset of August, ok? I could have had this done weeks ago when I took some time off work, but I DIDN'T. It isn't like I read a lot, or even wrote a lot, in July. But life happens and idk, man. I'm in this weird little funk right now.

Things I Wrote

I spent most of July decidedly Not Writing™. Until the last week of the month, naturally, when I spent a couple hours each night putting together my entry for our second "Write This In Your Style" collection. The Bloody At Your Door collection went live on Aug 1, but I'm still counting it as July writing. Especially because it is anyone's guess whether I'll manage to write at all in August (the muse has been a fickle and elusive little bitch).

Anyways, my angsty little open-ended contribution is titled the nature of breaking (dramione, E, 5k). I'm begging you to check out the rest of the collection if you haven't already. I'm astoundingly lucky to call these writers my friends.

Things I Read

Get ready, because I'm about to blow. your. mind. THAT'S RIGHT, FOLKS! I READ A TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED BOOK! And it is all @eggbagelsjr and @mightbewriting's fault. So what if the only book I read so far this year was a monsterfucking book? IT MADE ME HAPPY.

My fanfic track record for July is pretty abysmal. Outside of a multi-chap group read in the RoR discord server, I managed a handful of completed fics. I blazed through all of the available chapters for a deliciously depraved (new to me) WIP, and caught up on another. I have otherwise fallen behind on pretty much all of the WIPs I'm following.

Fiction:

Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta (approx. 60k words)

Nonfiction:

Fanfiction:

Complete: (approx. 34.2k)

Best in Show by naughtybaguette (dramione, E, 6.6k)

The Nature of Seduction by @dreamsofdramione and @artofcrumbs (panville, E, 6k)

wanna lay my head where the cold wind blows by @one-equaltemper (dramionstoria, E, 7.8k)

Keep Swinging Your Bat My Way by @veelawings (dron, E, 1k)

Group Read: riddle me this by @megamegaturtle (dramione, GA, 8.1k)

Group Read: His Lucky Day by @monsterleadmehome (dramione, E, 5k)

WIPs: (approx. 217.9k)

Fervidity by @kittenshift-17 - Chapters 1 - 26 (dramione/sevmione/dramionbastan(?), E, 215.8k)

Where There's Smoke by @whimsymanaged - Chapter 4 (dramione, E, 2.1k)

Things I'm Currently Reading (Heading into August)

We continued our group read of @pacific-rimbaud's Love and Other Historical Accidents in July, flailing our way through Chapters 6-11. I'm still out here having the goddamn time of my life with this fic (the group finished it mid-August, but I missed the final chapter read and I'm still hanging on because I don't want it to end). I also hopped into another RoR group read for Chosen, by 5moreminutes. I only made it to the first read, so I'm just a couple of chapters in, but this fic is so wonderful and features Hannah Abbott as a side character and OH MY GOD I JUST WANT TO PUT HER IN MY POCKET AND KEEP HER FOREVER.

And since we're already ignoring the lateness of this post, let's also ignore that last month I said my July goal was to cross two fics off my TBR list, hmm? I do not wish to be perceived.

#july wrap up #wrangling the words #books i've read #fics i've read #fics i'm reading #apparently i'm writing?