What did you read in July?

[litskispeciality]

Ratings, recommendations etc?

[litskispeciality]

Kind of another bad month for me.

Finished "Little Fires Everywhere" 4*'s

Molly's Game by Molly Bloom 2.5 *'s

Read part of Defending Taylor, it's cute, nice light YA I just didn't have time to finish.

[travella]

I read some good books this month.

The Guise of Another by Allen Eskens 4*
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman 4*
Educated by Tara Westover 5*
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 4*

29/40 for the year

[scribellesam]

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman - 4*
Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan - 3*
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - 5* (reread)
Christmas at the Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan - 3*
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness - 5* (reread)
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness - 4* (reread)
Cowboy Pride by Lacy Williams - 2.5*
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - 5*
Bird Box by Josh Malerman - 4*
Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans - 3*

I adored Spinning Silver, and I always enjoy the Discovery of Witches trilogy. I think this was my third time through the series? Bird Box was quite good as well.

[sarahswim]

I'm new to this board but read a bunch in July:
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty 2*
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine 3*
Miss You by Kate Eberlen 3*
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 3.5*
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 3*
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman 3.5*
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore 4.5*
The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz 4.5*

[dorothyinAus]

41. The Case of the Missing Treasure by Robin Stevens 4****
42. Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen 4****
43. Poirot and Me by David Suchet 5*****

Poirot and Me was excellent and I highly recommend it if you were a fan of the ITV/A&E adaptations. It was such a treat to go behind the scenes and see how Suchet became Poirot.

The Case of the Missing Treasure was great, but it was a novella, and I always want more with such short visits.

Crowned and Dangerous was good and I'm glad I read it, but I don't want to say any more for fear of spoiling it for someone else.

[bex]

Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane **** I could see what he was going for, but this was definitely no Shutter Island.
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones **** I liked this one a lot. It wasn't what I expected, but it was still really good.
The Summer that Melted Everything **** My goodreads review for this one is "I don't know. I just don't know." lol.
the Vengeance of Mothers by Jim Fergus ** BAD. SO BAD.
We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union **** Again not what I was expecting, but really good. Heavier than I thought it would be. But she is very honest and open and I did feel like I was having a conversation with her.
The Collector by Nora Roberts. *** Just your typical Roberts. Maybe worse than some of her typical ones.

[abs]

Decent reading month for me:

The Pact by Jodi Piccoult: 4*
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand: 3.5*
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand: 2*
All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover: 3.5*
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (re-read): 5*

[rainbowchip]

I had a epic month! I totally neglected my family to read all month.

The Last One 5* - it was an interesting take on the apocalypse. I just wish it had gone a little farther at the end.

Eliza and Her Monsters 5* - cute YA book about an awkward girl who creates a viral comic.

The Thief (BDB #16) 4* - I liked this one better than the past couple. I was kind of turned off of Assail and Sola but this brought me back to liking them.

Warcross 4*

Cowboy Pride 3* - this was a big library read and I always like P&P retellings.

Mountain Daddy 3* - Contemporary romance. It was a nice story but there were a few holes. It probably should have been edited better.

Fahrenheit 451 3* - I get what the book was doing and it wasn't supposed to be about the characters but the characters were really unrealistic.

Beautiful Mess trilogy 4* - I really loved this and couldn't put it down. There were a bunch of things that bugged me but the plot was pretty solid. It probably could have been 2 books (or even 1) instead of 3. The middle book didn't do much. But it was nice having more time with the characters.

I am at 37/52 for the year. 7 books ahead according to goodreads.

[charlatti]

Lots of middle grade, YA, and fluff this month.

I re-read Ruin and Rising and Siege and Storm from Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy. 4* to both. Borrowed my daughter’s Menagerie series by Tui and Kari Sutherland: 5* for book one and 4* for two and three. It’s a really fun middle grade series.

Crazy Rich Asians 4* and China Rich Girlfriend 3*
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Griffin 4* (engaging, not at all memorable beyond the big issues)
The Paragon Hotel 4* — got an ARC of this and enjoyed it
The Book of Essie 4*
The Storm King 2* (very meh, skimmed a lot of it)

[wesleycrusher]

1. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Luiselli, Valeria - 4
2. Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sen, Sharmila - 4
3. The Flight Attendant by Bohjalian, Chris - 3
4. Redshirts by Scalzi, John (audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton) - 4
5. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Jaswal, Balli Kaur - 4
6. The Immortalists by Benjamin, Chloe - 4
7. Potent Pleasures by James, Eloisa - 1.5
8. The Alienist by Carr, Caleb - 4
9. Warcross by Lu, Marie - 3
10. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bosker, Bianca - 4
11. One Small Thing by Watt, Erin - 3
12. Nerd Do Well by Pegg, Simon (audiobook) - 3
13. Because You're Mine by Kleypas, Lisa - 3
14. We're Going to Need More Wine by Union, Gabrielle - 5
15. American Gods by Gaiman, Neil - 5
16. Only Mine by Mallery, Susan - 2
17. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Brosh, Allie - 3
18. Someone to Hold by Balogh, Mary - 3
19. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Cahalan, Susannah (audiobook- I didn't love the narrator) - 4
20. The Cheerleaders by Thomas, Kara - 3

[spedrunner]

Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer
5 stars *


Commonwealth

Patchett, Ann

3 stars

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Tavris, Carol

3 stars

The High Season

Blundell, Judy

2 stars

Tin Man

Winman, Sarah

2 stars


Keeper of the Light (Kiss River #1)

Chamberlain, Diane *

4 stars

[rootbeerfloat]

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee - 5*
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Mackenzi Lee - 3.5*
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel - 4*

29/50 for the year.

[minzy]

I read 10 books in July.  I'd particularly recommend "Bloodsworth" and "Who is Vera Kelly?"

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang - 4 stars

Bloodsworth - The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence - Tim Junkin - 5 stars

Factfulness - Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund - 4 stars

China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan - 3 stars

When She Woke - Hillary Jordan - 4 stars

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 4.5 stars (63 pages)

Warcross - Marie Lu - 3 stars

A Girl from Yamhill - Beverly Cleary - 3.5 stars

Who is Vera Kelly? - Rosalie Knecht - 4.5 stars

Anatomy of a Disappearance - Hisham Matar - 3 stars

50/52 on the year.  Time to set some new goals...

[mrspez07]

Audio:
Killers of the Flower Moon 3*
The Life We Bury 4*
An American Marriage 5*

Read:
Jack 1939 3*
Beartown 4*
Saints for All Occasions 3*
Quilting with a Modern Slant (quilting book) 4*
Fussy Cutters Club (quilting book) 3*

A very good month for me.

[ufcasey]

2 stars
All In (#2 in series) by Emma Scott
Only Human (#3 in series) by Sylvain Neuvel

2.5 stars
Power of Five by Alex Lidell

3 stars
Embers (#4 in series) by Suzanne Wright
Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
If You Deceive by Kresley Cole

3.5 stars
Bright We Burn (#3 in series) by Kiersten White

4 stars
All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
The Ghostwriter by Alessandra Torre
Immortal in Death (#3 in series) by J.D. Robb

5 stars
Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin