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01: Heart's Victory 30
02: Heart's Victory 115
03: Positively Unstoppable 166 | Pumpkin Spice Peril 190 | Total 356
04: Pumpkin Spice Peril 104
05: Pumpkin Spice Peril 18 | High Noon 50 | Total 68
06: High Noon 43
07: High Noon 79
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14: High Noon 25
15: High Noon 138
16: Playing the Odds 39
17: Playing the Odds 21
18: Playing the Odds 12
19: Playing the Odds 27 | Stuck 49% (Audible)
20: Stuck 51% (Audible) | Playing the Odds 15
21: Playing the Odds 20
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24: Sun Down Motel 57
25: Playing the Odds 13 | Sun Down Motel 10 | Total 34
26: Playing the Odds 24 | Sun Down Motel 10 | Total 34
27: Playing the Odds 21 | Sun Down Motel 61 | Total 82
28: Playing the Odd 66 | Sun Down Motel 33 | Total 99
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Total pages read: 1754
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Currently Reading:
08/1: Night World, No. 1- 23 pages
08/2: Night World, No. 1- 52 pages
08/3: Night World, No. 1- 37 pages
08/4: Night World, No. 1- 37 pages
08/5: Night World, No. 1- 27 pages
08/6: Night World, No. 1- 31 pages
08/7: Night World, No. 1- 44 pages
08/8: Night World, No. 1- 15 pages
08/9: Night World, No. 1- 30 pages
08/10: Night World, No. 1- 19 pages
08/11: Night World, No. 1- 35 pages
08/12: The Serpent King- 31 pages
08/13: The Serpent King- 33 pages
08/14: The Serpent King- 58 pages
08/15: The Serpent King- 23 pages
08/16: The Serpent King- 68 pages
08/17: The Serpent King- 78 pages
08/18: The Serpent King- 77 pages
08/19: Looking for Alaska- 7%
08/20: no reading
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08/24: Looking for Alaska- 52%
08/25: Looking for Alaska- 79%
08/26: no reading
08/27: Looking for Alaska- 100%
08/28: no reading
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Total pages read: 990
Books finished: Night World, No. 1
The Serpent King
Looking for Alaska











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29/8 - 178 pages
30/8 - 91 pages
31/8 - 11 pages
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Start: 2% | End: 15% | Total read: 13%
Good Me, Bad Me
Start: 0% | End: 14% | Total read: 14%
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Sunday, August 2, 2020 ::
Start: 15% | End: 21% | Total read: 6%
Good Me, Bad Me
Monday, August 3, 2020 ::
Start: 15% | End: 21% | Total read: 6%
Good Me, Bad Me
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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Start: 21% | End: 36% | Total read: 15%
Good Me, Bad Me
Start: 14% | End: 30% | Total read: 16%
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Saturday, August 8, 2020 ::
Start: 21% | End: 56% | Total read: 35%
Good Me, Bad Me
Start: 30% | End: 100% | Total read: 70%
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Start: 0% | End: 16% | Total read: 16%
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Sunday, August 9, 2020 ::
Start: 56% | End: 77% | Total read: 21%
Good Me, Bad Me
Start: 16% | End: 36% | Total read: 20%
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Monday, August 10, 2020 ::
Start: 77% | End: 79% | Total read: 2%
Good Me, Bad Me
Start: 36% | End: 74% | Total read: 38%
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Friday, August 14, 2020 ::
Start: 79% | End: 100% | Total read: 21%
Good Me, Bad Me
Start: 74% | End: -% | Total read: 0%
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Friday, August 21, 2020 ::
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Maybe in Another Life
Start: 0% | End: 100% | Total read: 100%
Gotham Central, Vol. 2: Half a Life
Sunday, August 23, 2020 ::
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Maybe in Another Life
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Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Currently reading:
08/1: Closely Watched Trains, 85 pages, finished and The Way of Kings, 81 pages
08/2: The Way of Kings, 227 pages
08/3:Regenerated, 7 pages and The Way of Kings, 163 pages
08/4: The Way of Kings, 106 pages
08/5: The Way of Kings, 224 pages
08/6: The Way of Kings, 170 pages
08/7:The Way of Kings, 153 pages, finished
08/8: Grant, 51 pages and Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes, 53 pages
08/9: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, 279 pages, finished
08/10: Gilead, 175 pages
08/11: Gilead, 107 pages, finished
08/12: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 177 pages
08/13: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 109 pages
08/14: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 29 pages
08/15: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 106 pages, finished
08/16:Call for the Dead, 171 pages, finished
08/17: Evelina, 254 pages
08/18: Evelina, 137 pages
08/19:Evelina, 138 pages, finished
08/20: Grant, 31 pages and Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes, 37 pages and Malice, 70 pages
08/21: Malice, 116 pages
08/22: Malice, 187, pages, finished and Grant, 28 pages
08/23: 0 pages read
08/24: Valor, 65 pages
08/25: Valor, 134 pages
08/26: Valor, 296 pages
08/27: Valor, 155 pages, finished
08/28: Grant, 31 pages and Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes, 11 pages
08/29: The Sea Cloak and other stories, 76 pages, finished and Ruin, 144 pages
08/30: Men Without Women, 242 pages, finished
08/31:Home, 167 pages
Total pages read: 4,672
Books finished:


08/1: Closely Watched Trains, 85 pages, finished and The Way of Kings, 81 pages
08/2: The Way of Kings, 227 pages
08/3:Regenerated, 7 pages and The Way of Kings, 163 pages
08/4: The Way of Kings, 106 pages
08/5: The Way of Kings, 224 pages
08/6: The Way of Kings, 170 pages
08/7:The Way of Kings, 153 pages, finished
08/8: Grant, 51 pages and Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes, 53 pages
08/9: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, 279 pages, finished
08/10: Gilead, 175 pages
08/11: Gilead, 107 pages, finished
08/12: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 177 pages
08/13: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 109 pages
08/14: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 29 pages
08/15: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 106 pages, finished
08/16:Call for the Dead, 171 pages, finished
08/17: Evelina, 254 pages
08/18: Evelina, 137 pages
08/19:Evelina, 138 pages, finished
08/20: Grant, 31 pages and Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes, 37 pages and Malice, 70 pages
08/21: Malice, 116 pages
08/22: Malice, 187, pages, finished and Grant, 28 pages
08/23: 0 pages read
08/24: Valor, 65 pages
08/25: Valor, 134 pages
08/26: Valor, 296 pages
08/27: Valor, 155 pages, finished
08/28: Grant, 31 pages and Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes, 11 pages
08/29: The Sea Cloak and other stories, 76 pages, finished and Ruin, 144 pages
08/30: Men Without Women, 242 pages, finished
08/31:Home, 167 pages
Total pages read: 4,672
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TBR:
Books Read:
The Dreadful Objects Virtual KI
The Sleep Tight Motel Virtual KU
. The Never Game Virtual Library
The Goodbye Man
Buried
The Town That Feared Dusk
Let Her Be
1. A HOUSE IS A BODY NG ARC TOUR 5
2. THE WOODS, Harlan Coben own 5
3. NOTHING GOOD HAPPENS AFTER MIDNIGHT NG ARC 5
4. SUITCASE KU VIRTUAL
5. SHORT HORROR STORIES VOLUME 26 ARC 5
6. CHILDREN OF RED PEAK NG ARC 5
7. SINS OF THE FATHER NG ARC 5
8. THE APOCALYPSE STRAIN NG ARC 5
9. STOKER'S WILDE WEST NG ARC 5
10. DARK SOULS ARC SCARE STREET 5
11. NOCTURNE HOUSE HG 5
12. SNOWFLAKES KU VIRTUAL 4
13. TREASURE KU VIRTUAL 5
14. PLAYING POSSUM KU VIRTUAL 5
15. THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS SCRIBD VIRTUAL (= 75)
16. LEGACY OF PANDORA own/author request 5
17. STRANGERS Camilla Grebe Scribd Virtual 5
18. DEMONSONG OWN 5
19. THE COMPENDIUM OF SREM SCRIBD VIRTUAL 5
20. THE LAST RAKOSH OWN MOUNT TBR 5
21. SECOND HOSTAGE OWN 5
22. WARDENCYLFFE OWN 5
23. QUICK FIXES OWN MOUNT TBR 5
24. SIGNALZ OWN 5
25. A NECESSARY END OWN 5
26. COLD CITY SS SCRIBD VIRTUAL 5
27. THE FIFTH HARMONIC SCRIBD VIRTUAL 5
28. THE KEEP MOUNT TBR 4
29. THE SELECT MOUNT TBR 4
30. FAITHFUL SHADOW OWN MOUNT TBR 5
31. THE TRUTH ABOUT BELLE GUNNESS By Lillian de la Torre ARC MOUNT TBR
32. PLAGUE by Graham Masterton MOUNT TBR
40. PLAGUE by Lisa C. Hinsley ARC MOUNT TBR
41. TOE TO TOE by Deborah Leblanc
42. THE CARRION SEA by Steven McCumaskey
43. SHORT HORROR STORIES VOLUME 27 Scare Street ARC
44. THIS BOOK IS ALIVE
45. WHERE DO DINOSAURS GO ON VACATION?
46. FULCRUM OF ODYSSEUS by Eric Michael Craig
47. SOFT & OTHERS KU VIRTUAL 5
THE MONITOR 3
THE PROCTOR HALL HAUNTINGS NG ARC 5
FIREBOMB 4
MIDNIGHT MASS VIRTUAL 5
WEREWOLF 3
THE ICE LIMIT OWN 5
THE ANNIHILATION PROTOCOL NG ARC 5
MORAN AND MORAN ARC BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT 5
PAGES & PYRENEES ARC 5
THE SPREAD BOOK 1 THE HILL KU VIRTUAL 5
MYCOPHORIA 5
THE MALAN WITCHES 5 KU VIRTUAL
NIGHTWORLD 5

Sauf que j'ai rien dit / Lily Pinsonneault
la théorie du drap contour / Valérie Chevalier
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / J.k. Rowling
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Books finished: 5






TBR: **whatever I'm in the mood for**
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08/1: I don't know exactly where I left things off and I'm too tired to look it up. So I'll use today as a base. On my kindle: I'm 25% into The Anatomist's Wife and 45% of Just One Damned Thing After Another. I'm also on page 220 of my paperback of The Nowhere Girls.
08/2: I read another 10% of The Anatomist's Wife. I'm currently 35% done with it.
08/3: I read another 10% of The Anatomist's Wife. I'm currently 45% done with it.
08/4-5: I read another 20% of The Anatomist's Wife. I'm currently 65% done with it. I'm hoping to finish it by Friday so I can start Midnight Sun.
08/6-9: I finished The Anatomist's Wife and Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. I also read/ listened to 40% of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I also DNFed Deadly Little Scandals.
08/10-11: I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
08/12-14: I read a few pages here and there. The only thing note worthy is that I started O Constante Correr das Horas.
08/15: I read the first 25% of Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance.
08/16: I read/ listened up to page 316 of The Nowhere Girls.
08/17-20: I've been mostly reading a book on editing this week. On the fiction side, I've reached page 100 of O Constante Correr das Horas and page 335 of The Nowhere Girls.
08/21: I started Witches and Wedding Cake and Two Can Keep a Secret.
08/22: I read up to 55% of Just One Damned Thing After Another.
08/23: Finished The Nowhere Girls.
08/24: I got to page 150 of O Constante Correr das Horas.
08/25: I read up to 30% of Witches and Wedding Cake.
08/26: I listened up to 20% of Two Can Keep a Secret.
08/27-31: I got to halfway of Witches and Wedding Cake, O Constante Correr das Horas and Just One Damned Thing After Another, but didn't manage to finish any of them.
Total pages read: 983
Books finished:




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8/1:Regressions 10 pages
8/2:Regressions 72 pages
8/3:Regressions 57 pages Finished
8/4:Ready Player One 39 pages
8/5: no reading
8/6: Ready Player One 7 pages
8/7:Ready Player One 89 pages
8/8: Ready Player One 20 pages
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08/2: My Favorite Half-Night Stand 41 pages, Blind Search 52 pages
08/3: Blind Search 82 pages
08/4: Blind Search 67 pages
08/5: Blind Search 44 pages
08/6: Blind Search 75 pages
08/7: Hostile Pursuit 74 pages
08/8: Hostile Pursuit 80 pages
08/9: Hostile Pursuit 94 pages, Evvie Drake Starts Over 77 pages
08/10: Evvie Drake Starts Over 199 pages
08/11: Evvie Drake Starts Over 140 pages
08/12: Evvie Drake Starts Over 146 pages, Playing for Keeps: An Enemies to Lovers Sports Romance 31 pages
08/13:Playing for Keeps: An Enemies to Lovers Sports Romance 49 pages
08/14: Playing for Keeps: An Enemies to Lovers Sports Romance 36 pages
08/15:Playing for Keeps: An Enemies to Lovers Sports Romance 52 pages
08/16: Playing for Keeps: An Enemies to Lovers Sports Romance 102 pages
08/17: Fireworks, A Firecracker & Foul Play 72 pages
08/18: Fireworks, A Firecracker & Foul Play 14 pages
08/19: Fireworks, A Firecracker & Foul Play 39 pages
08/20: didn't read
08/21: Before He Vanished 68 pages
08/22: Before He Vanished 48 pages
08/23: Before He Vanished 133 pages
08/24: Knee Deep 24 pages
08/25: didn't read
08/26: didn't read
08/27:Knee Deep 31 pages
08/28: Knee Deep 59 pages
08/29:Knee Deep 68 pages
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August has not been good for reading .
Books finished:4

Leticia wrote: "I went ahead and added "Books Unfinished" to my book list because I started the month DNFing a very tiring book."
Great idea Leticia!
Great idea Leticia!

08/2: N/A
08/3: Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel (232 pages)
08/4: Maud (23 pages)
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Hi Mary, how did you find the graphic novel?















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Thank you, again.

It really is! I love this group.










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Hi everyone, can you believe it is August 12th? How are you?
I'm feeling a little sluggish on my reading, maybe it's because I decided to read 6 books at a time, and I cannot seem to finish any of them.
I'm feeling a little sluggish on my reading, maybe it's because I decided to read 6 books at a time, and I cannot seem to finish any of them.

I'm feeling a little sluggish on my reading, maybe it's because I decided to read 6 books at a time, and I cannot seem to finish any of them."
I'm feeling a little restless in my reading. I am sort of reading 3 or 4 books at the same time and can't commit to any of them. I know I'll end up finding what I'm looking for eventually. Until then, I've gotta keep looking and sampling.

I'm feeling a little sluggish on my reading, maybe it's because I decided to read 6 books at a time, and I cannot seem to finish any o..."
I have never understood how anybody could read more than one book at a time and not get the stories mixed up. I read just one at a time and still get the story mixed up with TV shows.
The way I get a round the confusion is by reading only one book from each genre. Right now I am reading a classic, a biography/history, a fantasy, an espionage, and a contemporary literary fiction.
Once I get about 50% done on a particular book then I will concentrate on it, until I have finished it, then go back to the others, while also browsing for another book to put in the mix.
I tried reading one book at a time. It just doesn't work for me.
Once I get about 50% done on a particular book then I will concentrate on it, until I have finished it, then go back to the others, while also browsing for another book to put in the mix.
I tried reading one book at a time. It just doesn't work for me.

I'm really hoping when the seasons change so will my reading mood.
Karen wrote: "The way I get a round the confusion is by reading only one book from each genre. Right now I am reading a classic, a biography/history, a fantasy, an espionage, and a contemporary literary fiction...."
I'm the same way.
I'm the same way.

I've heard that before and I honestly can't understand how people can get confused. Maybe it's the writer in me picking up patterns in narrative and speech, but books "feel" different -- even if they're in the same genre.
For instance, I was rereading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sci-fi, but with strong parody elements) and One Damned Things After Another (sci-fi, but with time travel). In the past, I've read urban fantasy and high fantasy together as well. I never got any of them mixed up.
I'm trying something I have never even thought to do before. I am reading Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs and reading Ron Chernow's biography of Grant at the same time. Mainly because Chernow quotes the memoirs frequently.
I'll read a few chapters from the memoirs, then read the same time frame in Chernow's book.
I'll read a few chapters from the memoirs, then read the same time frame in Chernow's book.







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This actually makes a lot of sense. You get to read the memoir but also read someone writing about it and you almost get a "second opinion" on what you're reading.
Leane wrote: "Karen wrote: "I'm trying something I have never even thought to do before. I am reading Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs and reading Ron Chernow's biography of Grant at the same time. Mainly because Cher..."
Yes! Clarification where needed.
Yes! Clarification where needed.

I'm feeling a little sluggish on my reading, maybe it's because I decided to read 6 books at a time, and I cannot seem to finish any o..."
I read a lot of books at the same time all the time. I don't mix them up, my mind is so much going in all directions that the difficult thing for me is to stick to one book lol.
This month I've been without much luck with reading and already DNFed three books because they were slow and boring.

I'm feeling a little sluggish on my reading, maybe it's because I decided to read 6 books at a time, and I cannot seem t..."
Maybe switch to a quickie middle grade book? That's what I do when I need to refresh (am doing right now). They are easy reads and usually something slightly fun or humorous.

Leticia, what is your favorite Space Opera series?
Leane, I am not sure if Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy would be considered middle grade or YA, but I find when all other books fail, this trilogy gets me back to reading (I would include the Pern series here as well, but they are not middle grade).
Leane, I am not sure if Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy would be considered middle grade or YA, but I find when all other books fail, this trilogy gets me back to reading (I would include the Pern series here as well, but they are not middle grade).

Leane, I am not sure if Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy would be considered middle grade or YA, but I find when all other books fail, this t..."
Sometimes we have to have that fall back. For me it's usually a middle grade book because they are shorter, easier reads and finishing a book makes me feel accomplished.
Is this month seriously about to be over??
I feel like the fall really inspires me to get reading again. I'm planning on trying to tackle some standalones on my TBR for September.
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Adrianna [Sypherlily]
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