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Here’s my reading wrap up for August! First, I am planning on stepping up my reading for the remainder of the year; we’ll see if I can reach my goals. 

I have joined The Classics Club and created a list of classics – of course – written by womxn, BIWOC, GNC, etc. to read but it means I need to complete two more books each month to stay on track! Check out my list. I start reading my first two selections this month.

So here’s my bookish August!

I read:

• Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah – Read my review!
• You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar – Read my review!
• The Teacher, the Seamstress and the Pianist by Ogenna Ojukwu – Review coming soon!

I listened to one audiobook:

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah – Didn’t post a review on my site but LOVED it.

I wrote four book reviews for my site:

• Chula’s Colombia: A Review of Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE
• Camille Perri’s WHEN KATIE MET CASSIDY: A Brief Review
• From Reluctance to Rebellion: A Review of Bina Shah’s BEFORE SHE SLEEPS
• F*ck Your Fatphobia. A Review of Virgie Tovar’s YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN FAT.

I also had two reviews published in the latest Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies: A Feminist Review (v. 39, no. 1):

• Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender edited by Shirley A. Jackson
• Prostitution Research in Context: Methodology, Representation and Power edited by Marlene Spanger and May-Len Skilbrei

I posted:

• July 2018 Wrap Up
• Classic Reads for the Rest of Us – My list of 100 class books to read in five years as part of The Classics Club!
• New Reads for the Rest of Us – September 2018 Releases

This month I watched HBO’s Sharp Objects which – do I have to tell you?! – is AMAZING. Partway through I was wondering why I didn’t read the book first! I had read Gone Girl and didn’t love it, that’s why. But I have since heard that Sharp Objects was better than Gone Girl. Oh well, you can’t read ’em all.

August’s Book Haul:

• Pretend We Live Here by Genevieve Hudson (signed hardcover, purchased from publisher)
• Hunting Party by Agnès Desarthe (from publisher)
• 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 1950-1965  by Katherine Forrest (purchased)
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Audible purchase)
• LOTS of books from my Classic Reads for the Rest of Us book list purchased used or for Kindle!

That’s the reading wrap up for August – here’s a look ahead to September!

Books in Progress:

• My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. by Kevin Powell
• Ponti by Sharlene Teo
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (audiobook)

TBR:

• The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon (Classics Club read #1)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (Classics Club read #2)
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• When Morning Comes by Arushi Rainer

TBW (To Be Written):

• Review of The Teacher, the Seamstress and the Pianist by Ogenna Ojukwu
• Review of My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. by Kevin Powell
• Review of Ponti by Sharlene Teo
• Review of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon (Classics Club read #1)
• Review of Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• New Reads for the Rest of Us – October 2018
• September 2018 Wrap Up

What are your September reading and writing plans?? See you next month for another reading wrap up!

 

This post is part of the Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up hosted by Feed Your Fiction Addiction!

 

 

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