Lazy TBR Challenge August

August was ROUGH! I had an exam to resit and then a 3 week course on the other side of the country for my trainee position. Having school and classes all day and being away from my home comforts my brain was not wired for reading too much when the evening rolled around, so I only managed to get a couple of books off my TBR by reading them. I had to delete 4….but I’m pretty happy about the situation now and just hope September will be better. So now my TBR stands at 275 books. 

Books finished
  • La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
  • Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles (TBR book)
  • Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi (TBR book)
  • Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
  • The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner 
  • The Rules of Persuasion by Amity Hope

Books DNF’ed
  • None…But I will admit that some of them are lingering a bit on my Currently Reading list…

Books added to my TBR
  • None! Wooo go me!

Books currently reading
  • The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy (TBR book)
  • Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby 
  • Invictus by Ryan Graudin 
  • Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (TBR book)

Books deleted

  • Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson
    • This has been on my TBR for 7 years (!) and I don’t really think the travel genre is for me. I enjoy traveling, but no so much reading about other people doing it. 
  • Orphan Number Eight by Kim val-Alkemade
    • This is a fairly new addition to my TBR, joining in 2016, but still…
  • Unbreak My Heart by Melissa C. Walker
    • This seems to be a teen romance lingering on my TBR since 2015, and I honestly don’t know how it even made it on there in the first place. It doesn’t sound like something I would enjoy. 
  • Mosquitoland by David Arnold
    • Also another fairly new addition (2017), but I seem to remember not so glowing reviews, and it just doesn’t really seem up my alley

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