TBR in September

I blame this TBR on a spontaneous visit to the library where I pretty much picked up books at random, haha. Concerning the sheer number of books on my TBR - 1) yes I am an idiot 2) this might send me back into my reading slump, who knows? I'll try to enjoy being in a bookish mood as long as possible! Also, this TBR is ridiculously long so I probably won't finish all these books but a girl can try, right?

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Read in August

I think I finally might actually have overcome my nearly year-long reading slump and hell yeah, this feels very good! I think what did it for me was the fact that I set explicit reading goals for myself and then really tried following them; for example at the start of a week I had in mind to finish three books that week and really tried to follow through with it. It really made me read more again, and I'm finally back to enjoying reading!

Honestly, August was an extremely good reading month for me and I'm finally ahead of my reading goal on Goodreads (for the first time since February...!).


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# of books read: 8 (that's two books per week!)

-  Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant #5) by Ben Aaronovitch

- A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief #4) Megan Whalen Turner

- P.S. I Still Love You (To All The Boys I've Loved Before #2) by Jenny Han

- I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman*

- All The Better Part of Me by Molly Ringle [ARC]

- Beautiful Accidents by Erin Zak [ARC] *

- Kurt Cobain finns inte mer by Hanna Jedvik

- Sawkill Girls by Clair Legrand*

* = review to come (hopefully)

Best book of the month: Honestly, I have had quite the reading month when it comes to the quality of the books I've read, too. In fact, I have enjoyed reading most of them and I've even rated several of them above three stars (this has truly been a rarity for me this year!). I think I'm going to have to go with Sawkill Girls, though. It's my only five-star read this month (the first one in pretty much forever). I loved it for its badass female characters, its creepyness and its interesting take on a fantasy/horror plotline. (A more detailed review is forthcoming, so I'm deliberately keeping this sort of vague).

Worst book of the month: Hm. I think it's going to have to be a tie between P.S. I Still Love You and All The Better Part of Me. My review for ATBPOM is up on my blog, you can find it here if you're interested in reading what I didn't like about it, I won't rehash any of it here. PSISLY was honestly painful at times, mainly because the American moralism in American YA is honestly suffocating at times. Also, there was an unneccesary love triangle forming and let me tell you, I am not about that life.

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Review: All The Better Part of Me [ARC]

TITLE: All The Better Part of Me

AUTHOR: Molly Ringle

RELEASE DATE: September 1 2019

RATING: ★★

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Rep: bi MC, gay LI, latinx LI, lesbian side characters

TWs: homophobia

Genre: new adult LGBT romance
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E-ARC kindly provided by the publisher.

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“I’ll kiss you, just this once. If you want.”

He snorted. “Right. Sure.”

“I will. People do that. They kiss their friends. It happens.”

TBR in August

let's do this, Ida. You can do this!