Bookmark Lit Bulletin | August 2017

Posted September 1, 2017 / Bookmark Lit Bulletin, Features, Wrap-Ups / 0 Comments

BL header 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!

FINALLY! ?? I finished a good amount of books this month, which was my goal. The A-LIST series reread really pushed me over the edge. I wanted to read over 10 books this month (aiming for 15+) and binge-reading that series definitely got me there. I was always in the mood to read, sometimes reading one book in a day or two. My mojo is back and I’m further ahead on my reading challenge. My goal is to find some more outdoor spots to read before the weather gets too cold for that.

14 books read in August

7 new reads • 7 reread • 0 DNF
4,377 pages read including 465 minutes of audio

Read by source:
9 owned {1 review copies}
5 borrowed {1 review copy}

Read by format:
0 hardcover | 7 paperback | 3 ebooks
1 novellas, short stories, graphic novels
0 audiobooks | 1 read/listen combos
1 egalleys | 1 physical ARCs

103 books read in 2017

91 new reads • 12 rereads • 5 DNF
35,834 pages read including 12,248 minutes of audio

Read by format:
16 hardcover | 20 audios or mixes
40 digital books or egalleys
37 paperbacks or physical ARCs

Other reading stats:
59 owned books | 54 borrowed books
54 in a series | 59 standalones
56 backlist books | 57 published in 2017

Average rating for books read in August: 3.71 stars

Highlights & Lowlights

Favorite

Nostalgic

1st Was Better

Disappointing

Addicting

This month’s books:

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

floral

Year-Long

Contemporary Romance Challenge

7 this month | 51 read total | 510% complete

Flights of Fantasy Challenge

2 this month | 20 read total | 67% complete

Rock My TBR Challenge

1 this month | 15 read total | 100% complete

None this month

Series Enders Challenge

3 this month | 12 read total | 120% complete

None this month

Summer Bingo Challenge

Book Reviews

[3 Aug] Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill ★★★★
[3 Aug] Just Dreaming by Kerstin Gier ★★★½
[3 Aug] Same Beach, Next Year: A Novel by Dorothea Benton Frank ★★★
[7 Aug] The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky by Summer Heacock ★★★★
[11 Aug] In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody ★★★½
[24 Aug] The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee ★★★½

Discussions, Memes, and More

Breakdown: 8 bought | 0 borrowed | 1 gifted | 5 for review

From the publisher: More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer, When Light Left Us by Leah Thomas

The Key to Everything A Dangerous Year (The Riley Collins, #1)

From the publisher via Edelweiss: The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee
From the publisher via Netgalley: A Dangerous Year by Kes Trester
From the author: The Key to Everything by Paula Stokes

Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge The Summer House Wish You Were Here Defy the Stars (Constellation, #1) Neverwhere It's Not Me, It's You What Waits in the Water

Purchased ebooks/sales: Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger, The Summer House by Hannah McKinnon, Wish You Were Here by Renee Carlino, Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, It’s Not Me It’s You by Stephanie Kate Strohm, What Waits in the Water by Kieran Scott

The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch, #1) Eligible (The Austen Project, #4)