One of my favorite ladies, Cristina at Girl in the Pages, signed up for this event and encouraged me to do so when I commented on her post. I took a look at some of my ARCs and found that most of them had the scary September release date. Realistically, this challenge is very timely! Without further ado, here’s my sign-up post for ARC August, which is hosted by Read Sleep Repeat.
Here are the rules:
- It may be a physical ARC or and eARC but it MUST be an ARC
- Yes it can be an ARC that has released as long as it’s an ARC I’m not going to nitpick much
- HAVE FUN WITH THIS! Feeling like you are being “forced” to read is the best way turn a fun event into a yucky obligation.
- Update post! I personally will do a post for each Saturday in August but that’s just me. You can update once a week, every other week or once for the whole darn event. This update can be in the form of a blog or tumblr post, vlog, link to your “ARC August 2015″ shelf or even an instagram pic! I want to make this as easy and low pressure as possible for you.
Personal Goals
Because I have a really big potential TBR below, I honestly don’t expect to finish all of these. My goal is to finish about half of the books in each category:
- At least 3 books from my BEA haul
- At least 2 books from my other physical ARC pile
- At least 2 books on my Kindle (eARCs)
Potential TBR
I usually don’t have that big of an issue with ARCs, to be honest, because I rarely request them. However, the month of July was certifiably insane with all of the ones I borrowed through Around the World Tours. At one point, I had four books from them that needed to be each read within a week of receiving them. It was stressful and I forced myself to cut back on borrowing from them. If some books come in during August, I’ll probably let myself include them here too. I also have a stack of books from BEA that I haven’t even touched yet (okay, I lied, I’ve been slowly reading Illuminae at the time of this post). I hope to crank through some of the following books this August.
BEA Books
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld
Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins
Juniors by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix
Other Physical ARCs
Firewalker by Josephine Angelini
Tonight the Streets are Ours by Leila Sales
Broken Homes and Gardens by Rebecca Kelley
Come Away with Me by Karma Brown
ARCs on my Kindle
Most Likely to Succeed by Jennifer Echols
Anne & Henry by Dawn Ius
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
The Sister Pact by Stacie Ramey
Has to be Love by Jolene Perry
I’m so excited that you signed up! I also have Firewalker, Juniors, and Tonight the Streets are Ours, so let me know if you’re up for doing “Book Buddies Ask” for those!!
That sounds like an awesome challenge. I have SO MANY ARCs with September publication date. Not sure if I will sign up though. I like to balance out my ARCs with reading of other things as well. Good luck!
I need to sign up for this, especially considering the fact that I haven’t read any of my August ARCs yet. And I have quite a few for September and October. I need to get on this. 🙂
I haven’t officially decided to participate in ARC August, but I do think I’ll be reading a TON of my ARCs this month! There are so many titles that are coming out in September, and I’m hoping to get a good chunk of them read as well. Happy reading to us both!
Yes exactly September is busy for releases! Happy reading to yoooou!
Good luck, Lauren!
These seem like awesome books. I’m also reading Tonight The Streets Are Ours. (I got it from Goodreads First Reads.) Maybe we could update each other with what we think!
Yes, I need to read that this month! Hopefully I get to it haha
Good luck with your goals for ARC August! I’m hoping to get around to reading The Scorpion Rules as well. It sounds pretty excellent. 🙂
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
Thank you! I’m on the fence about it – it’s not really a ME book but it does look like something interesting to give a try!
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