Always With a Book

Month in Review: September 2022

Is it just me or did September fly by? I swear I feel like I was just putting August’s wrap-up together and here we are doing September’s. This time of year always seems to go by so fast.

My main goal for September was to balance what I read and I was definitely successful in that. I read more of my own books and a bunch of backlist books and really enjoyed doing that. I didn’t feel the pressure of having to read all the new books – something I need to remind myself of moving forward. I will most likely continue this trend this month, especially as I will be away for 2 weeks and I don’t want to have to stress about having any books read by a certain date. When I request books, I always try to honor those commitments, so taking step back right now is just good timing – plus let’s be honest, it’s not as it I don’t have a ton of books sitting on my shelf waiting to be read!

October is a time for spooky reads and I definitely have a bunch I am going to try to get to – some new, some old. And then November brings both #NonfictionNovember and #NordicNoirNovember, both of which I will be participating in, so I am already to put books aside for this as well. And then we have December and I already have a bunch of holiday reads set aside. And that’s the rest of the year! How is that possible?

I will be curating some lists for each of the above on my page on Bookshop.org. Again, by shopping here, you are supporting independent bookstores and books are shipping directly to you…it’s definitely a win-win.

Here is the link to my storefront: https://bookshop.org/shop/alwayswithabook

Reading Stats:

  • Read this month: 21
  • Year to date: 250

 

 

  1. Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead — Elle Cosimo (audio book)
  2. Captive — Iris Johansen (audio book)
  3. The Two Lives of Sara — Catherine Adel West (audio book)
  4. The Prized Girl — Amy K. Green
  5. Stolen Remains — Christine Trent (audio book)
  6. The Book of Cold Cases — Simone St. James (audio book)
  7. The Retreat — Sarah Pearse
  8. All That’s Left Unsaid — Tracey Lien (audio book)
  9. Kismet — Amira Akhtar (audio book)
  10. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries — 12 Acclaimed Authors (print/audio)
  11. The Thread Collectors — Shaunna J. Edwards & Alyson Richman
  12. The Cicada Tree — Robert Gwaltney
  13. Next of Kin — Kia Abdullah
  14. Elizabeth & Margaret — Andrew Morton (audio book)
  15. The Bodyguard — Katherine Center (audio book)
  16. Police — Jo Nesbo
  17. The Kind Worth Killing — Peter Swanson (re-read/audio book)
  18. And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie
  19. The Damage — Caitlin Wahrer (audio book)
  20. Listen To Me — Tess Gerritsen (audio book)
  21. We Spread — Iain Reid (audio book)

 

Favorite books of September:

  • The Cicada Tree – Robert Gwaltney
  • Next of Kin — Kia Abdullah
  • We Spread — Iain Reid

 

 

And the stats: (I did this last year & am going to do it again.)

Books read that were published this year: 14 (201 YTD)

And of those, how many were review books:  13 (186 YTD)

Backlist review books read: 4 (15 YTD)

Books read off my own shelf (not review books): 4 (37 YTD)

Books bought/won in giveaways: 9 (103 YTD)

 

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