July – September TBR – A Keyboard and an Open Mind

Back in March, I decided instead of doing a monthly TBR, I would write a three-monthly one. I had 20 books on my last one and managed to read 17 of them (along with a whole bunch of stuff that wasn’t on it). This time around, I have 19, so if I can make similar progress, I’ll be pretty happy. Instead of one big graphic, this time, I’ve divided my reading into sections. So without further ado:

ARCS:

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Morena-Garcia
Life is Like a Musical by Tim Federle
Your One and Only by Adrianne Finlay
Daughter of the Burning City by Amandy Foody

Three of these are publishing within the next three months, and in the case of the only one that is publishing later than that, the publisher doesn’t have any kind of policy about when reviews should be posted, so I figure I can get them all knocked off sooner rather than later. Yes, these are the only ARCs I have pending at the moment. I can’t fathom you people with 20 or 30 pending at once! 😛

Challenges

Beat the Backlist Challenge 2017

Books that I own:

Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Books that were added to my TBR prior to 2016:

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Inconceivable! by Tegan Wren
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The Winter Freak Show by Daniel Parsons

Probably not surprising that 3/5 of these have been on my TBR so long that I had no idea what they even were until I drew them out of my TBR jar and looked them up for this post. And even Station Eleven and We Were Liars, I know very little about.

Australian Women Writers Challenge

A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald by Natasha Lester
Call Me Sasha by Geena Leigh
Blood Guilt by Lindy Cameron*
Dollhouse by Anya Allyn
The Year of Freaking Out by Sarah Walker*

*Part of my challenge-within-a-challenge was to read at least two books by LGBTI authors. I failed in this part of my challenge last year, but hopefully these two will grab me this year, and maybe I’ll even end up reading more!

At the moment, I’m actually powering my way through a few more Series of Unfortunate Events books by Lemony Snicket, which I abandoned for a while while trying to get more on my TBR read. But I’ll be getting onto this list soon enough. Stay tuned!