June Wrap Up & July TBR

In all Word Nerd honesty, I admit my TBR's are...ambitious. I want to read everything immediately. But then life gets in the way, commitments, book hangovers, book purchases that you just cant wait to start and I find I don't stick to them religiously.

This month I read 8 books, 5 of them from my laid out TBR list. Much Pride, Many accomplish, WOW! But I also diverted off my beaten track of what I would read if I finished those. I ended up not reading Frozen by Erin Bowman or Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor. Why you ask? Because I just wasn't feeling it. I find I'm more likely to enjoy a book if I'm reading it because it's what I want to read, not because I agreed to read it so I have to. If I'm not feeling it, I'll come back to it. At some point.

Okay so in June I read the following:

The One by Kiera Cass 3/5 stars.
Tears of Heaven by R.A McCandless 1/5 stars. (Unfinishable)
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 4/5 stars.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 5/5 stars.
More Than This by Patrick Ness 4/5 stars.
Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan 4/5 stars.
Popular by Wagenen, Maya Van 5/5 stars.
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang 2/5 stars (Unfinishable)

And onto July. This is an equally ambitious month with 5 books I selected then 1 from my TBR Jar.

From Bottom to Top.

We start with Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler. My sister gave this book to me a few months ago when I was going through a bad break up, which was a sweet thought but it was too soon. A lot changes in a few months and so finally I'm reading the book. Really excited for it, seems right up my street and might give me a new perspective on the experience.

 Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship

Next we have my TBR Jar pick for this month Wonder by R. J. Palacio. This was a complete impulse buy a long time ago and I don't think I ever even thought I'd read it but that's the point of the jar. So I'm excited to see what I've been missing out on.

August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances?

Naturally I'll be reading the next book in the Percy Jackson series. Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. Having read it's three predecessors, I kind of know what I'm expecting in terms of writing style but I am excited to see how Percy and Annabeth develop, and what happens from the fallout of the last book. Nothing better than returning to Camp Half-Blood. 

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.




Next is the book I am actually currently reading. Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon. I have heard so many good things about this book and Saxon even did a Celaena Sardothien cosplay and had her book recommended by Sarah J Maas so there was no way I wasn't going to read it. I mean she might just be the coolest person ever and the book actually sounds UH-MAH-ZING!

Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She’s one of the privileged – she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout the land. But Catherine longs to escape the confines of her life, before her dad can marry her off to a government brat and trap her forever.

So Catherine becomes Cat, pretends to be a kid escaping the Collections, and stows away on the skyship Stormdancer. As they leave Anglya behind and brave the storms that fill the skies around the islands of Tellus, Cat’s world becomes more turbulent than she could ever have imagined, and dangerous secrets unravel her old life once and for all .




I also decided as I read More Than This last month I would take a crack at A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. It's an incredibly short book and so I'm sure I will fly through it and hopefully enjoy it as much as I enjoyed his other books.

The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.
But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...
This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth

Finally I will be incorporating a classic I have owned and skimmed a billion times but never took the time to read. From reading quotes I feel like me and Ernest Hemingway would be best friends, although we wouldn't call ourselves that,  we'd just be drinking buddies and talk about how hard it is to be intelligent and happy. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway will hopefully live up to it's stellar reputation. 

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

The book already contains what I think is the most romantic dialogue I have ever read in my life. 

Anyway that is what I plan to read this month but I'm sure if any of that changes, you'll be te first to know. So tell me, What are you reading? Have you enjoyed any of the books I'm about to start? Let me know your reccomendations! Come on lets starts conversing internet.

Have a good one.