NetGalley October TBR
Hey all, Sam here.
Hello and Happy October! While I definitely considered last month to be part of Spooky Season, we are truly in the heart of Spooky Season this month. I am ready for strolling through apple orchards and pumpkin patches, indulging in corn mazes and haunted houses, walking trails in parks as the leaves change color…all while dressed in lovely sweaters and with a nice Thermos of whatever my hot beverage of choice is that day (could be cider, could be tea, could be coffee, could be cocoa, could be some nice mead).
As with last month, I’m just going to do a NetGalley TBR to go over the books I’ve received through NetGalley that are releasing in the month of October that I’m really hoping to read and review in their release month.
I wasn’t all that successful with my September NetGalley reads. There were seven books on the list and I only completed two of them…but I still managed to read an okay amount of books, and I was trying to give myself just a little bit of a break from the somewhat intense reading/reviewing schedule I’d been under for months before that. So, even though I didn’t read many of my NetGalley books, I’m still pretty happy with my progress…and I obviously still do intend to read all of my NetGalley backlog.
Apparently October is a big month for book releases, because I have 11 books on my NetGalley TBR…and one of them I am already reading. I don’t even know that I’ll be reading them in release order. I might just bounce around the list, depending on what I’m in the mood for…and I’m obviously also still working on reads from my Spooky Season TBR.
Oh, also…my boss decided to try a different schedule for me at work this week. I’ll be working four 10 hour shifts instead of five 8 hour shifts…so this week I’ll have Monday and Tuesday off like normal, but then I actually get Saturday off as well (although David still has to work on Sat)…and I have no idea what I’m going to do with an extra day off. Honestly, probably read, maybe write a little, and possibly play some more Fae Farm and/or have some TV show on binge-mode in the background.
Anyway…let’s go over all the October releases I’ve been approved for over on NetGalley. I will note that the release dates listed here are the ones that were given on the NetGalley site.
The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon (Oct 3), Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs (Oct 3), Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson (Oct 3), Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros (Oct 10)
The Art of Destiny by Wesley Chu, The Night Hunt by Alexandra Christo (Oct 10), Secrets of the Catalogue by Amelia Spencer (Oct 15), Unholy Terrors by Lyndall Clipstone (Oct 17)
Our Divine Mischief by Hanna C. Howard (Oct 17), Under the Smokestrewn Sky by A. Deborah Baker (Oct 17) , Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
Why yes, I do still need to read The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu and One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig before I can read these new/upcoming releases. I do want to read them both, and hopefull soon, so we’ll see what happens…and I have a feeling that I’ll be tackling Under the Smokestrewn Sky by A Deborah Baker (AKA Seanan McGuire) sooner rather than later.
I’m aware this is a shorter post, but I want to save some of my thoughts for Instagram or TikTok or a future blog post book review. Oh, and I can now be found on Blue Sky as well, with the same name as everywhere else: SamRushingBooks.
That’s all from me for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I’ll be back soon with more geeky content.
