July 2018 Wrap Up
Here’s my July 2018 wrap up!
Here we are in August already! Hope you are having a fantastic summer.
Time is short, so let’s get right to it!
This month I read only two books! To be fair, I was super sick for about 3.5 weeks of this month sooo…
I read:
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Every Body Has a Story by Beverly Gologorsky
I listened to two audiobooks as well:
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
I wrote two book reviews:
- A Life Well Lived: A Review of Rachel Heng’s Suicide Club
- Buy This Book! Naomi Klein’s The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
I also posted:
- 15 Must-Reads for the Rest of Us – 2018 – Part II
- Women in Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria – A Resource Guide
- July’s New Reads for the Rest of Us
- June Wrap-Up
And I participated in cover reveals for:
July’s Book Haul:
- My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. by Kevin Powell (from the publisher)
- You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar (from Edelweiss)
- Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah (from NetGalley)
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (from NetGalley)
- All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy (from NetGalley)
- Whisper Me This by Kerry Anne King (complimentary from Amazon)
- Beautiful Exiles by Meg Waite Clayton (complimentary from Amazon)
- The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores by Diana Marcum (complimentary from Amazon)
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (purchased)
- The Novice: A Story of True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh (purchased)
- Stray City: A Novel by Chelsey Johnson (purchased)
- Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (purchased)
- Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey (purchased)
That’s the July 2018 wrap up – Here’s a look ahead to August!
Books in Progress:
- Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah
- The Teacher, the Seamstress and the Pianist by Ogenna Ojukwu
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (audiobook)
Book Haul so far:
- When Morning Comes by Arushi Rainer (from publisher)
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (from NetGalley)
- The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Bedani (complimentary from Amazon)
- Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965Â by Katherine Forrest (purchased)
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Audible purchase)
TBR:
- You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
- My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. by Kevin Powell
- When Morning Comes by Arushi Rainer
TBW:
- Reviews:
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
- Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah
- You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
- The Teacher, the Seamstress and the Pianist by Ogenna Ojukwu
- Hybrid Child by Mariko Ohara
- Resource Lists:
- New Reads for the Rest of Us for September 2018
- Another resource list – topic TBD
I have been writing a lot for work but also reviewing other people’s writing, so that has kept me busy as well. Right now I am editing biographies of Wisconsin Suffragists for a new online dictionary of suffrage being published by Alexander Street Press; I am editing and reviewing two articles (by others) for publication in academic journals; and I am trying to research and write my own chapter for inclusion in an upcoming ebook about women and leadership around the world – my piece focuses on the role libraries can play in women’s leadership development.
It is no wonder I am having trouble keeping up!
So that’s the July 2018 wrap up! What are you looking forward to in August? Do you have any ideas of topics for my next resource list?
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Pride and Prejudice! I enjoyed that book immensely. I can’t say what I’m looking forward in August, but I hope it will be filled with happy things.
Me too! I hope you have a wonderful August!
The Born a Crime audiobook was amazing! Not sure if you are reading versus listening, but you should do both! If anything, that accent…swoon. 😉
I only listened and loved it. I’ve been to South Africa a bunch of times and love it and always want to support SA writers. It was so great to hear that accent again!
I messed up my calendar in July and I’ll be paying for in August and Sept, and probably Oct too!
Oh no! It’s so hard to catch up once you fall behind – I am hanging on by a thread! Good luck to us both!
Great wrap up post! Hope you are able to read more and not be as sick in August!
Thanks! I hope so too!
Wow, and I thought I was busy! You go girl!
Desperately playing catch-up now! But I do like to keep busy 😉
Yay for Jane Austen!
A classic!
So sorry to hear you were sick in July. July is my favorite month with longer days, lots of sunshine, and warm weather (of course, it’s been too warm some days, but it’s better than subfreezing). I’m getting over a viral infection now myself that really wore me out and made doing everything feel so hard. My doctor said she’s already treated many people with the flu and they don’t even have their flu shots in yet. This could be a nightmare year for flu victims.
Oh no! The summer went so fast because I was sick. Now all of a sudden autumn is coming on too quickly! Hope you are feeling better!
I hope you’re not sick anymore! I have also been around less because I’ve been vacationing and traveling. I feel like the whole blogosphere is more quiet because of vacation mode 🙂
It’s so nice to have those breaks! I am feeling much better, thanks!
Sorry you spent most of July sick! Hope August has been healthier!