Well July sure seemed to fly by! Even with me being home most of the month due to my surgery, I still don’t know where the time went. I did manage to read, and listen, to quite a lot – though I’m not sure how my tbr is still overflowing!
I do have some exciting news – I’m now an affliate with Bookshop.org. This is an opportunity to support independent bookstores and I hope you will consider shopping through my links whenever you see a book that interests you. I’ll now be including shop links in all my reviews moving forward. I also will be curating booklists on my storefront, so be sure to take a peak. So far, I have lists up for both the bookclubs I host. We’ve read some amazing books so far this year, so if you are looking for some books that foster good discussions, these will certainly work.
Here is the link to my storefront: https://bookshop.org/shop/alwayswithabook
Reading Stats:
- Read this month: 32
- Year to date: 194
The Hunted — Roz Nay- Iris in the Dark — Elissa Grossell Dickey (audio book)
- Woman of Light — Kali Fajardo-Anstine (audio book)
- Cold, Cold Bones — Kathy Reichs (audio book)
- One Night Stand — Patricia Gibney (e-book)
- First Born — Will Dean (audio book)
- Acts of Violet — Margarita Montimore (audio book)
- Everything Is Mine — Ruth Lillegraven (audio book)
- The Beauty in Breaking — Michele Harper (audio book)
- The Binding Room — Nadine Matheson (e-book)
- Winter Counts — David Heska Wanbli Weidan (audio book)
- Out of Her Depth — Lizzy Barber (e-book)
- Are You Sara? — S.C. Lalli
- Bad City — Paul Pringle
- The Kingdoms of Savannah — George Dawes Green
- Hokuloa Road — Elizabeth Hand (audio book)
- Things We Do in the Dark — Jennifer Hillier
- And There He Kept Her — Joshua Moehling
- The Lover — Helene Flood
- Blood Ties — Ruth Lillegraven (audio book)
- Take My Hand — Dolen Perkins Valdez (audio book)
- Naomi’s Gift — Martha Hall Kelly (e-book)
- Ash Wednesday — Paula McLain (e-book)
The Couple at Number 9 — Claire Douglas (audio book)- The Kitchen is Closed — Sandra Butler
- Smoke Screen — Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger
- Landing — Olivia Hawker (e-book)
- We Are Born & Earth — Esi Edugyan (e-book)
- A Wild Rose — Fiona Davis (e-book)
- Alison’s Conviction — Thomas Keneally (e-book)
- Mother Swamp — Jesmyn Ward (e-book)
- Phantom — Jo Nesbo
Favorite Books of July:
- The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins Valdez
And the stats: (I did this last year & am going to do it again.)
Books read that were published this year: 26 (156 YTD)
And of those, how many were review books: 23 (144 YTD)
Backlist review books read: 1 (9 YTD)
Books read off my own shelf (not review books): 6 (30 YTD)
Books bought/won in giveaways: 13 (83 YTD)
