🎶August slipped away into a moment in time…🎶
August felt like it got over in the blink of an eye! Work started to pick up again this month but I also took a long weekend break to get away to Bali to visit my aunt and cousin and to hang out with the whole family. My sister also sent me some things from Japan through a friend of hers and that little package made my day a few weeks back! Overall, it was a pretty decent month 🙂
I read 16 books in August and overall, it was a better reading month for me. I had two 5-star reads though both were re-reads but I did read several books that were close to 5 stars. Not counting my re-reads, my favourite this month was Shucked by Kate Canterbary!
**BOOK COVERS are linked to Goodreads and the TITLE TEXT is linked to my review if available!**
5 pandas
4.5 pandas
Role Playing
(ARC) Shucked
(ARC) Love & Resistance
4 pandas
3.5 pandas
3 pandas
less than 3 pandas (+ unrated)
I haven’t updated my own notes with the progress I’ve made on my reading challenges but safe to say, I’ve kind of abandoned almost everything at this point. Obviously, my Goodreads Reading Challenge is slowly progressing and although I still haven’t fully updated it on my actual Goodreads page, my spreadsheet shows I’ve read 106 books thus far. I’m sorely behind on my 150-book goal for 2023 but I’m hoping to continue catching up!
I also participated in the Magical Readathon Autumn Equinox semester and thankfully, I’ve passed that. A wrap-up post specifically for that challenge is coming soon!
Discussions:
- How I Select Books to Read – Pam @ Read.Bake.Create
- The Bridgerton Effect: How Regency Romance Conquered Hearts Once Again – Julie @ One Book More
- Discussion: What Counts As “Diverse” Book? The Problems with Superficiality & Filling Quotas – Ritz @ Living, Loving and Reading
- Authors I Want To Give A Second Chance?! – Sophie @ Me & Ink
- Let’s Get Honest About Reading (and Blogging) – Rosina @ Lace and Dagger Books
- The Borders of Speculative Fiction – Peat @ Peat Long’s Blog
- There Are Too Many Books! – Krysta @ Pages Unbound Reviews
Reviews:
- ARC Review: The Boy You Always Wanted by Michelle Quach – Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole
- ARC Review – Only This Beautiful Moment – Chris @ BiblioNerdReflections
- Murderous and Introspective: 2 Distinctive Mermaid Books to Read – Alexx @ Enthralled Bookworm
- Book Review: Forget Me Not by Julie Soto – Elli @ AceReader
- Book Review: The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub – Shazzie @ reader@work
- Review: Taboo by Kim Scott – 1girl2manybooks @ all the books i can read
Tags/Lists/Recommendations:
- {Updated} The World of V.E. Schwab: Where to Begin – Vanessa @ The Wolf and Her Books
- Six Books on the Younger End of YA – Saniya @ sunnysidereviews
- Unread ARCs still on my NetGalley Shelf – Caro @ Bookcheshirecat
And that’s it for August, friends. Can you believe we’re down to the last four months of 2023 now?! How was your month of reading and life in August? What was your favourite book? Did anything exciting happen?
dinipandareads 
A trip to Bali and a package from Japan. Sounds like a great month. I also need to read Role Playing soon. Thanks for the link!
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It was pretty great 🙂 I hope that you enjoy Role Playing whenever you pick it up!
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Looks like you had a great month, both reading and otherwise! Shucked sounds amazing, I look forward to trying that one 🙂
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Love the tattoo, and that ram is cute! Ten books 4-stars and above is great too, especially with 2 rating 5-stars. Hope the upward trend continues.
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Sounds like you had a pretty good month, Dini! Your sister was so sweet to send you a little care package, and I love your pool and your new tattoo. So cool!
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Your sister sent you some adorable stuff! I’m glad you had such a great reading month.
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Yay for re-reading! Role Playing is on my kindle, so I’m very happy to see you enjoyed it. Have a great week, Dini!
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I’ve heard so many good things about the Amari series. I need to pick that one up already. I hope you have a wonderful September!
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Looks like you read some fun and really good books. I applaud you for reading so many. Even when I was full on reading, I never read more than 3-4 in a month. Guess that’s just how I read. 😉
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Love the tattoo and I’m glad you had a good month!
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Thank you for the shout and jealous of your travels! I’m looking forwards to going through the other links.
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You had a great month, Dini! The ram is so cute! 😍
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The trip to Bali sounds lovely, I hope you all enjoyed your time together 🥰 and I love the tattoo!
I have yet to read the sequel to Amari and the Night Brothers! It was a great MG story. I am glad you enjoyed the sequel, even if not as much as the first one!
Thank you for the mention and I hope you have a awesome September! 🥰
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I’m glad you could take a weekend away to see family! The package from your sister is so cute! I hope September continues to be good for you!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
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Glad to see that you had a good reading month 🥰 I really like the Amari books and I’m sad the third one didn’t come out this year 🥺 Thank you so much for sharing my post! ❤️
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