The Bookmark Lit Bulletin was created to wrap up each month and prepare for the next. I share my book haul, books I read and reviewed, posts I shared, challenge updates, and more from the previous month. I also let you know what may be coming up on the blog in the coming month. You can read past bulletins here. I recently split out my personal posts into the Lauren Lately feature, so this is a bit shorter!
My goal was to at least make it to ten books this month and I really didn’t care how I did it. I started reading two books toward the end of the month that didn’t fully grab my attention and/or were too long, so I kept picking up quick and short contemporaries in between to meet my goal. Oh well! I’m hoping for some more reading soon because I want to hit the beach and parks and such. Hope you guys had a nice month of reading! Mine was so weird haha. Also, worth mentioning that I read five 4-star books in a row and it made me uncomfortable ?
12 books read in June
11 new reads • 1 reread • 0 DNF
3,877 pages read including 480 minutes of audio
Read by source:
5 owned {4 review copies}
8 borrowed {0 review copy}
Read by format:
2 hardcover | 0 paperback | 4 ebooks
1 novellas, short stories, graphic novels
1 audiobook | 0 read/listen combos
4 egalleys | 0 physical ARCs
89 books read in 2017
83 new reads • 5 rereads • 5 DNF
31,457 pages read including 11,783 minutes of audio
Read by format:
16 hardcover | 19 audios or mixes
36 digital books or egalleys
24 paperbacks or physical ARCs
Other reading stats:
46 owned books | 49 borrowed books
41 in a series | 5 standalones
42 backlist books | 52 5 published in 2017
Average rating for books read in June: 3.75 stars
Highlights & Lowlights
Favorite
Disappointed
Pleasant Surprise
Super Twisty
Nostalgic Reread
This month’s books:
Year-Long
Contemporary Romance Challenge
7 this month | 51 read total | 510% complete
Books read from the pre-planned TBR: 0 this month | 2 total
Series Enders Challenge
3 this month | 12 read total | 120% complete
Spring Bingo Challenge
Book Reviews
- [4 Jul] What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum ★★★★½
- [4 Jul] Hello, Sunshine by Leila Howland ★★★★½
- [10 Jul] The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro ★★★
- [10 Jul] Lucky in Love by Kasie West ★★★★
- [18 Jul] The Best Man by Kristan Higgins ★★★★½
- [18 Jul] The Perfect Match by Kristan Higgins ★★★
- [18 Jul] Waiting On You by Kristan Higgins ★★★★
- [18 Jul] In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins ★★★★½
- [18 Jul] Anything for You by Kristan Higgins ★★★★
- [24 Jul] Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave ★★★★
Discussions, Memes, and More
- [1 Jul] Bookmark Lit Bulletin | June 2017
- [5 Jul] 2017 Mid-Year Challenge Progress & Statistics
- [7 Jul] ContRom Challenge Topic: Anticipated Releases
- [11 Jul] On My List (2)
- [12 Jul] Contemporary Romance Challenge – TBR Update
- [13 Jul] Lauren Lately | July 2017
- [14 Jul] Library Love | July
- [17 Jul] Make Me Read It Readathon | Poll, TBR, and Tracking
- [19 Jul] Wednesday Wrap-Up #4 | WoW & WWW
- [21 Jul] Reading Bad Books… On Purpose
- [25 Jul] Bookish Memories
- [26 Jul] I Need More Books Like THESE
- [27 Jul] Goodreads Book Tag
- [31 Jul] August TBR
Breakdown: 25 bought | 1 borrowed | 0 gifted | 3 for review
Publishers via Netgalley: The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed, The Future She Left
Behind by Marin Thomas, The Dirty Book Club by Lisi Harrison
Purchased: Love & Gelato by Janna Evans Welch, By Your Side by Kasie West;
Borrowed: If Birds Fly Back by Carlie Sorosiak, The Knowing by Shannon Cameron (not pictured),
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (not pictured)
Series binge purchases: Gossip Girl series (some books) by Cecily von Ziegesar,
The A-List (complete series) by Zoey Dean, Lucky Harbor books by Jill Shalvis
Purchased ebooks: The Diabolic by SJ Kincaid, It Started with Goodbye by Christina June,
Snow Angel Cove by RaeAnne Thayne, The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
None!
✨ Check out my most recent personal life wrap-up HERE ✨
Life Happenings | Media Addictions | Goals | Favorites | Life Ahead
Biking the trail | Chris | One of many lobster rolls | Ice cream!
Tacos | Indie bookstore | Portland Head Light (both)
Watching Power Rangers | Reading in bed | Reading at our Kittery hotel | My favorite sandwich
Top Blog Posts Coming Up
Best Covers for Books I Didn’t Like | I feel like this post has been sitting in my drafts for awhile, and clearly August will be the month where I post all of those. I hate when books with gorgeous covers end up disappointing me. This post is basically an appreciation post for the cute covers with not-the-best books inside.
Wedding & Event Planning Books | I love books involving event/wedding planning, so I pulled some together! I used to want to be an event planner with a friend from high school, so I always gravitate toward those storylines. I highlight some I recently read plus some on my TBR.
Book Tags | I often save book tags to drafts in order to fill them out on a rainy day. I did that twice last month! So, I have a few more in there I plan to pull out at some point. I don’t have a lot planned for August yet, so I’ll probably also add in some memes and other features.
Weird Reading Habits: Author Binges | I talk about how my reading habits tend to be weird with my favorite authors. I often save their books for a rainy day so I don’t run out. I also don’t binge read a bunch of books by one author unless they’re in the same series.
Cozy Small Town Companion Series | I loveeee companion series. Sometimes I prefer them to actual series, I think. I’ve been reallllly into the cozy small town companion series though, especially adult fiction. I’m sharing some of my favorites and why I love them, as well as the books on my TBR.
Top Books on the TBR
Check out my August TBR post! ?
Another great wrap up. 12 books in a month is great progress. I usually read 5 or 6. I think I only read 3 in July just because I finished Clockwork Princess and that was a long book, but it was good.
Thank you 😀
A few thoughts here:
-Are you planning on rereading Gossip Girl too? I am hoping to get around to the It Girl sometime after the A List.
-You would make a PHENOMENAL event planner!!
– I am SO READY for your cozy small town companions series. Honestly I have been in this weird mood lately where all I want to do is reread books and so I’m looking for some new additions to freshen up my TBR!
Yesss! I plan on rereading GG later this year I think, maybe in the winter. And I’d probably do It Girl around then too.