What did you read in July?

[charminglife]

What books did you read? How many have you read this year? (if you're keeping track?) Any favorites?

[charlatti]

I had a ton of reading time in July, apparently:

Shine Shine Shine Lydia Netzer
Where We Belong Emily Giffin
The Red Book Deborah Copaken Kogan
The Collective Don Lee
Tigers in Red Weather Liza Klaussmann
Tumbleweeds Leila Meacham
Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins (reread)
Grace Among Thieves Julie Hyzy
Shadow and Bone Leigh Bardugo
White Glove War Katie Crouch
The Age of Miracles Karen Walker Thompson

I'm at 80 for the year. Beautiful Ruins was definitely my favorite from this month, possibly for the year too.

[dorothyinAus]

18. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer -- Süskind, Patrick
19. Stuck in the Middle -- Smith, Virginia
20. The House of Special Purpose -- Falconer, Colin
21. Katy's New World -- Sawyer, Kim Vogel
22. Cover Her Face -- James, P.D. (I finished the last 20 pages in August, but I'm counting it for July)

I enjoyed Cover Her Face very much and am looking for the other books in the series. Katy's New World was a fun easy read, for a Kindle freebie it wasn't bad. The House of Special Purpose was terrible -- poorly written and poorly researched, including outright lies and fabrications. Stuck in the Middle as surprisingly good for a Kindle freebie, I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would; I finished it in less than a day! Perfume was weird, very strange; I really only finished it to see how it turned out, not because I really cared, interesting enough but nothing I would or could recommend to anyone else.

[Pippin]

July was an epic fail for me. I'm in the middle of 3 books and I haven't been able to finish any of them. I've been in a bit of a reading slump lately:(

[charminglife]

Search The Dark (Charles Todd) - 4 stars

Wings Of Fire (Charles Todd) - 3 stars

A Test Of Wills (Charles Todd) - 3 stars

Beat the Reaper (Josh Bazell) - 1 star

A Death in Summer (Benjamin Black) - 4 stars

Elegy for April (Benjamin Black) - 3 stars

The Silver Swan (Benjamin Black) - 4 stars

Christine Falls (Benjamin Black) - 3 stars

The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) - 2.5 stars

The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker) - 3.5 stars

Still Alice (Lisa Genova) - 3.5 stars

Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn) - 4 stars

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (Jim Frederick) - 4 stars

Life Sentences (Laura Lippman) - 4 Stars

The Most Dangerous Thing (Laura Lippman) - 3 Stars

Generation Kill (Evan Wright) - 3 Stars

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes (Sharon Lamb) - 2 stars

My total so far this year is 112 books. I really enjoyed the Benjamin Black series and I think a new one comes out this month. Black Hearts was another eye-opening read.

[rootbeerfloat]

Matched, Ally Condie - 4*
Crossed, Ally Condie - 3*
Falling Under, Danielle Younge-Ullman - 3*
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie#2), Charlaine Harris - 3.5*
Club Dead (Sookie #3), Charlaine Harris - 3.5*
Dead to the World (Sookie #4), Charlaine Harris - 3.5*
Into the Shadows, Karly Kirkpatrick - 3*
Darkness Rising, Karly Kirkpatrick - 3.5*
The Other Boleyn Girl, Phillipa Gregory - 4*
Catch of the Day, Kristan Higgins - 3*

I'm at 46 for the year.

[mayflowers22]

I have finished nothing this month Hoping to read a lot in august.

[chicacocodrilo]

Revolutionary Road, four stars
The Bachman Books, three stars

Wasn't a good month for me. But, vacation time is coming up--hoping for the chance to read a lot!

[msmerymac]

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While by Catherynne Valente
Dark Lover by JR Ward
The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Summer and the City by Candace Bushnell
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan


Not too good. I'm 6 books behind.

[BlackCanary]

I only read one book in July because it was so long!

Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin.

I'm almost done with A Storm of Swords and I have a feeling that it will take me the month of August to read book 4.

I have read 50 books so far this year. I'm apparently 8 books behind on my reading challenge.

[BlackCanary]

Aug 2, 2012 8:10:46 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

18. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer -- Süskind, Patrick

Perfume was weird, very strange; I really only finished it to see how it turned out, not because I really cared, interesting enough but nothing I would or could recommend to anyone else.

I tried reading Perfume but I couldn't get into it. Have you seen the movie? I love that Alan Rickman is in it! ;D

[pthermal]

I'm at 30 for the year. So I'm 1 ahead for my year goal. This month was heavy on Teen lit but my book clubs picked them. Favorite out of that list is Whitethorn Woods and least fav is Salem Falls. The teen lit was good if you like teen lit.

Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Where She Went by Gayle Foreman
The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Whitethorn Woods by Mauve Binchy
If I Stay by Gayle Foreman

[dorothyinAus]

Aug 2, 2012 16:52:58 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

I tried reading Perfume but I couldn't get into it. Have you seen the movie? I love that Alan Rickman is in it! ;D

I didn't know there was a movie. I was stuck in Melbourne due to flooding and had finished my current book I when saw the book in a display of Penguin Classics at a bookstore and thought it was worth a go.

I think though it might be better as a movie -- or maybe not, it got very weird and could be quite graphic.

[BlackCanary]

Aug 2, 2012 18:30:22 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

Aug 2, 2012 16:52:58 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

I tried reading Perfume but I couldn't get into it. Have you seen the movie? I love that Alan Rickman is in it! ;D

I didn't know there was a movie. I was stuck in Melbourne due to flooding and had finished my current book I when saw the book in a display of Penguin Classics at a bookstore and thought it was worth a go.

I think though it might be better as a movie -- or maybe not, it got very weird and could be quite graphic.

I won't lie, it is a VERY weird movie. I still watched it for Alan Rickman. ;D

[lemondrop]

Nothing :-( I've been so busy.

[drtouble]

Aug 2, 2012 18:25:48 GMT -5 pthermal said:

I'm at 30 for the year. So I'm 1 ahead for my year goal. This month was heavy on Teen lit but my book clubs picked them. Favorite out of that list is Whitethorn Woods and least fav is Salem Falls. The teen lit was good if you like teen lit.

Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Where She Went by Gayle Foreman
The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Whitethorn Woods by Mauve Binchy
If I Stay by Gayle Foreman

I loved the 2 books you listed by Gayle Foreman. They are great reads!

[writingwithheld]

A Thousand Splendid Suns-- 5
Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros--4
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel--4
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather-- 2
Animal Farm, George Orwell--4
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe-- 4
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde-- 3

I am at 16 books for the year, but I really only started seriously reading again this summer. I'm hoping to keep up the momentum even in the face of required reading this year. I set my goal at 25 since it is my first reading challenge. I'm ahead 2 books, so hopefully I will beat it by a large margin.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan- 3 stars
Girl Walks Into a Bar by Rachel Dratch - 3 1/2 stars
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris - 2 stars
Messy by the Fug Girls - 4 stars
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty - 4 1/2 stars
Poison by Sara Poole - 3 1/2 stars

I'm at 46 books for the year, with a goal of 70. A couple of those were really short, though, so I feel like I need to read a couple of really long ones to make up for it, heh.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

Here Be Dragons and Falls the Shadow by Sharon Penman

11/23/63

The Kingmaking by Hellen Hollick

[candreson14]

I read a bunch of nonsensical fun!

"Some Girls Bite" by Chloe Neil and the rest of the series..Chicago Land Vampires!

[duckduck]

I was staycationing last week, so I was off-board but read a lot of books. In July:

Risky Business (Nora Roberts) - 3*
Unbroken (Lauren Hillenbrand) - 5*
The House at Riverton (Kate Morton) - 5*
Dreamfever (Karen Marie Moning) - 5*
Shadowfever (Karen Marie Moning) - 5*
The Crucible (Arthur Miller) - 5*
Shadow of Night (Deborah Harkness) - 3*
Suck Your Stomach in and Put Some Color On! (Shellie Rushing Tomlinson) - 3*
Fever Moon: The Fear Dorcha (Karen Marie Moning) - 4*
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Elizabeth L. Cline) - 4.5*

I've read 70 books so far this year. Four of this month's books (Unbroken, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, and The Crucible) were on audio and were all very well-done.