August Monthly Report

Summer vacation is over, school has started, and my time for pleasure reading is shrinking. But before I get too involved in back-to-school activities, I want to report on what I read in August.

I added 41 books to my LibraryThing account in August. Eleven were YA books and 14 were books for my Kindle. I still have 33 of them left to read.

I read a total of 33 books this month. Seventeen of them were re-reads.

I re-read these 12 books from Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series:

• Shards of Honor
• Barrayar
• The Warrior's Apprentice
• The Vor Game
• Cetaganda
• Brothers in Arms
• Mirror Dance
• Memory
• Komarr
• A Civil Campaign
• Diplomatic Immunity 
• Cryoburn

Toward the end of the month I began re-reading the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. So far I have read:

• Dead Until Dark
• Living Dead in Dallas
• Club Dead
• Dead to the World
• Dead as a Doornail

As time permits I hope to finish reading that series again. I started Definitely Dead and then laid it aside to begin Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.

I talk about the six YA books I read on my Ms. Martin Teaches Media Blog.

Here are the other adult books I read:

• The Fire Lord's Lover by Kathryne Kennedy
• Water Bound by Christine Feehan
• Shadow Zone by Iris Johansen
• Burning Up by Angela Knight
• Death's Excellent Vacation  edited by Charlaine Harris
• A Certain Wolfish Charm by Lydia Dare
• Eternal Hunter by Cynthia Eden
• Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett
• The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King

As you can tell from the titles that I linked to reviews, I wasn't very good about reviewing my re-reads. And, you know, I can't promise that I will ever get to writing reviews about them. They were all great books to read and I really like reading the whole series without interruptions.

I am looking ahead to the new books on my TBR stack.

For the year so far, I have read 196 books. I was hoping to read 300 books this year and I still have an outside chance. Cross your finger for me!