Bookmark Lit Bulletin | November 2017

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!

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Not a great reading month for me, unfortunately. I was really pushing myself to finish a few more books within the last week of the month. It helped that I started to get into the Christmas books because those tend to be addicting for me. There were two books that bugged me all month that I was never in the mood to read, which definitely added some stress. The week we were home for Thanksgiving involved almost zero reading too. Oh well. It’ll be a big push to finish the reading year strong and luckily that means a lot of Christmas books. ? 

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Average rating for books read in Octber: 3.9 stars

Highlights & Lowlights

This month’s books:

Year-Long

Contemporary Romance Challenge

6 this month | 61 read total | 610% complete

Flights of Fantasy Challenge

4 this month | 26 read total | 87% complete

NONE

Rock My TBR Challenge

0 this month | 15 read total | 100% complete

NONE

Series Enders Challenge

1 this month | 16 read total | 160% complete

Fall Bingo Challenge

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Book Reviews

• [2 Nov] There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins ★★★★
• [2 Nov] The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty ★★★★½
• [6 Nov] A Dangerous Year by Kes Trester ★★★
• [6 Nov] The Key to Everything by Paula Stokes ★★★½
• [6 Nov] The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti ★★★½
• [27 Nov] Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Charlotte Butterfield ★★★★½
• [27 Nov] The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin ★★★½

Discussions, Memes, and More

• [1 Nov] Bookmark Lit Bulletin | October 2017
• [3 Nov] Mood Reading + My Issues with Predetermined TBRs
• [7 Nov] Top Ten Tuesdays #157: Leaders
• [8 Nov] On My List (3)
• [10 Nov] My Favorite Documentaries
• [13 Nov] Whose Books Am I Reading?
• [14 Nov] Top Ten Tuesdays #157: Family Recs
• [15 Nov] Lauren Lately | November 2017
• [16 Nov] Gimme the Books (2)
• [20 Nov] Five Star Predictions
• [21 Nov] Top Ten Tuesdays #158: Thanksgiving
• [22 Nov] Currently [11/21/17]
• [24 Nov] Tis the Season! | Holiday Plans & TBR 2017
• [28 Nov] Top Ten Tuesdays #159: Winter TBR
• [29 Nov] End of the Year Push
• [30 Nov] December TBR

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Breakdown:  20 bought  |  0 borrowed  | 2 free/gifted |  0 for review 

NONE

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Preordered: Renegades by Meyer, The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Hand | Books-a-Million haul: Lair of Dreams by Bray, Once Upon a Kiss by Palmer, and The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder

Kindle sales (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, etc.): In This Moment by Brown, Hunted by Spooner, The Weekenders by Andrews, The Dire King by Ritter, and I See London I See France by Mlynowski, 738 Days by Kade, Me You and Tiramisu and Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Butterfield, The Nest by Sweeney, Troublemaker by Remini, The Little Book of Hygge by Wiking

  

Haven Point Kindle binge: Redemption Bay, Evergreen Springs, and Riverbend Road by Thayne

Audible book sales/credits: My Lady Jane by Hand/Meadows/Ashton, Empire of Storms by Maas,
Caraval by Garber, The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Hodkin

NONE

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✨ Check out my most recent personal life wrap-up HERE ✨

Life Happenings | Media Addictions | Goals | Favorites | Life Ahead

 
Korean BBQ | Sushi dinner | Cozy Friday afternoon | Fancy favorite latte

    
Simsbury hangs | Drinks by the fire | Christmas pics in Kennebunkport | Maid of honor duties!!

Top Blog Posts Coming Up

Lots of holiday posts! | This is a no-brainer, of course. I always post some holiday reviews and other festive things like tags or movie round-ups. I hope to really fill the calendar with those things during the month, so some of the posts below could get bumped to January.

Seasonal Book Club | I posted a long time ago for TTT about some books I would choose if I had a “seasonal” book club, aka where we read certain books each month based on the season or holiday. I decided to do an update on that post where I do all 12 months and only feature books I haven’t read yet.

Recent Read-Bait | This posts are really fun when I finally think of a few! I’ve enjoyed them in the past for sure. This month will only feature two topics and I’ll give you a spoiler: wishes and travel-related meet cutes! That second topic also leads into…

Degrees of Separation and Connections | I started to think more on the topic of specifically travel-related meet cutes and how I LOVE random connections people make. Think of those movies like Valentines Day or New Years Eve, where you get to know characters throughout and find out how they’re all connected by the end of the movie. There are people who meet by chance in interesting circumstances all the time in books, which is one of my favorite obscure, extremely huge, categories to read. I’m exploring that topic in this post as a branch-off of the Read-Bait post.

Top Books on the TBR

Check out my December TBR post! ?

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How was your November?
Anything good planned for December?

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