Bookmark Lit Bulletin | October 2019

The Bookmark Lit Bulletin wraps up the last month in reading and what was on the blog, as well as what’s coming up next. You can check out my book haul, books read, posts shared, challenge updates, etc. You can read past bulletins here. If you’re looking for more personal updates, you can check out my Lauren Lately feature; it highlights my life events and non-bookish fun from the previous 30 days.

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Back on track, baby! I talked about my weird reading schedule (basically structured every book like a readalong where I had a set start date and end date with page goals) for October and that really helped me. I don’t think I’ll do it all the time but just for a few months when I’m feeling like I need the motivation. This will probably be true for November, TBH. Anyways, I did a good job reading in October (including my focus on “heavier” fall books, aka non-contemporaries).

    

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All of the books from this month:

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Breakdown: 3 bought  | 0 borrowed  | 0 free/gifted | 4 for review
All review copies were provided for free in exchange for an honest review.

For Review

Harlequin via Netgalley: The Little Bookshop on the Siene by Raisin
A Wedding in December by Morgan

Gallery Books via Netgalley: Marriage on Madison Avenue by Layne
Sourcebooks Fire via Netgalley: The Pretenders by Hanover

Purchased

Preordered ebook: The Play by Kennedy
Purchased paperbacks: Mooncakes by Walker, Then There Was You by Liasson

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• [4 Oct] She's the Worst by Lauren Spieller ★★★½
• [4 Oct] Love on Lexington Avenue by Lauren Layne ★★★★
• [9 Oct] Girls' Night Out by Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke ★★★
• [9 Oct] Maybe This Time by Kasie West ★★★½
• [9 Oct] Past Perfect Life by Elizabeth Eulberg ★★★★
• [23 Oct] His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler, Kendare Blake, Rin Chupeco, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Stephanie Kuehn, Amanda Lovelace, Marieke Nijkamp, Emily Lloyd-Jones, Hillary Monahan, Caleb Roehrig, Fran Wilde ★★★★
• [28 Oct] Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes ★★★★
• [28 Oct] Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren ★★★★
• [30 Oct] Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray ★★★★★
• [30 Oct] The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton ★★★½
• [30 Oct] The Good Widow by Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke ★★★

• [1 Oct] Top Ten Tuesdays #255: Numbers
• [2 Oct] Bookmark Lit Bulletin | September 2019
• [3 Oct] Summer of Lobster Rolls (Bucket List & TBR Update)
• [7 Oct] Final 3 Months | 2019 Challenge Push
• [8 Oct] Top Ten Tuesdays #256: Character Traits
• [10 Oct] Fall Bucket List
• [11 Oct] Reorganizing My Goodreads Shelves
• [14 Oct] #ReadForGrace Today
• [15 Oct] Top Ten Tuesdays #257: Book Titles
• [16 Oct] In Which I Get Ridiculous About Reading Goals and Scheduling (Readalong-Style)
• [18 Oct] Lauren Lately | October 2019
• [21 Oct] 2020 Releases I Can’t Wait For
• [22 Oct] Top Ten Tuesdays #258: Book Titles
• [29 Oct] Top Ten Tuesdays #259: Halloween
• [31 Oct] November + Non-Holiday December TBR

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October: Read seasonal books / focus on challenges ✔
November: Finish challenges (90%-ish)

I made my plan to finish up my challenges between October/November and I’ve done a good job so far! Everything is mostly going according to plan lol. November will be super challenge-heavy as I plan to read all of my Christmas books in December, almost exclusively. There will probably be a book for the Popsugar challenge and a Retelling for December, to break things up.

Guide to Holiday Movies Releasing in 2019 | My first holiday-ish post of the year will be here in the first full week of November! Not sorry bout it. I’m talking about ALL of the holiday movies coming up and keying in on the ones I’m super eager for.

Bimonthly Bujo and other features | I’ve been bad so far alternating between Lauren Lately and Five on Friday, but oh well. I plan to get both in for November easily. I also have my bimonthly bullet journal post coming at the beginning of the month, focusing on September and October layouts.

Rainbow Try a Chapter Unhaul | I’m combining ideas from a couple of bloggers to make my own personal “owned TBR” challenge for 2020. I’ll be assigning one color to each month of the year, pulling three books in that color scheme, and trying a chapter in each. If it grabs me, I read it. If it doesn’t, it gets unhauled.

Three Things | I haven’t done one of these in a while and it seemed fun to pull out again! I updated it with different questions and have started filling it out, but still need to add pictures and gifs probably.

Queen of Nothing Release | I’ll be attending Holly Black’s release day event in MA and immediately spending the next day off from work reading the book. I plan to recap the event and review the book before the end of the month.

Check out my November TBR post! ?

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How was your reading in October?
What do you have up next in November?

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