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This stack of books is all duplicates I found
while adding books to my Libib.
13 year old daughter for scale and stack balance. |
Howdy y'all. I'm only a week behind in getting this post written, which means I'm basically right on time in Katie's blogging time (it's a new thing I just created because it makes a solid excuse for why I'm always behind on things). My August did not go as planned. While I did get my
12 Books of Christmas reading challenge post created, as well as getting my own list started by playing a rousing game of Netgalley Request Roulette, and started partaking in the weekly memes I usually do (Top Ten Tuesday, Stacking the Shelves, and Book Blogger Hop), I wasn't consistent with the memes, and I didn't get a single new review written and posted to the blog. I also didn't finish a significant number of books before starting new ones (although most of the books I read in August were for book club meetings or audiobooks, so by that point I didn't have much choice in the matter). I'm currently considering stepping back from some of my bookclubs, because simply being in them is making reading feel a little bit like a chore (because of all the "assigned" reading they involve), although I think if I can just start squeezing in more books that I just want to read between the book club books I should be fine. The other thing I got accomplished in August was finally getting most of my books scanned into Libib (so I know what books I own) and back on my bookshelves where they belong. In the process of that, I discovered a whole bunch of books that I had duplicates of because they looked good more than once when I was book shopping at the thrift store. This was an important task, because I knew I owned copies of two of the books for my book club meetings this month, but I didn't know where they were (and since they weren't already scanned into Libib, I knew they weren't on my shelves yet). Naturally, I found one of them when I was almost to the end of my boxes of books, and the other was at the bottom of a more recent stack of books that I just hadn't gotten scanned yet. But the important thing is that I found them in time to read them for my meetings, and now that task is done (except it occurs to me that I need an additional system of book tracking so that I know which shelf each book is on, so that may be something I work on in September while I'm unemployed).
In September, I should do better at the blogging thing, because I turned in my two weeks notice at work and don't currently have another job lined up (which means I also need to get serious about job hunting, but once you submit applications it becomes a waiting game). I hope to start being consistent in participating in the memes again (and never ever ever ever stopping again, but I know that's a pipe dream), and just really knock out some book reviews. I'd also like to get things set up for the TikTok videos I want to do, but that requires organization that, let's be real, I'm not sure is a thing I possess. But if I can just write and post more reviews than books I read and consistently participate in the weekly memes, I'll consider that a win for the month. But that's enough rambling out of me for now, let's check out the books I read in August.
Books Read in August
Actually looking at my list, only four of those books were for book club meetings specifically, but I had to finish Doctor Sleep so I could read The Institute (because I can't read two Stephen King novels at the same time), and two others were audiobooks. And the book I'd say I most enjoyed was The Blonde Dies First, and that was neither for book club or an audiobook. Which shows me that I really do need to try to fit in more books that weren't a book club selection.
How did your August reading look? Got any big plans for September? - Katie
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