Monthly Wrap Up | August 2024

Posted September 1, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 6 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

August 2024 Wrap Up

I completed The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Reading Challenge! Yayy! So proud of myself.

I finished the challenge relatively early in the month, so I tried to make a dent in my other reading challenges and I managed to complete my Classics challenge as well! Technically, The Classics Club challenge is reading 50 classics in 5 years, so I just decided to read 10 classics a year (which I just completed), but if I wanted to do more, I could! We’ll see.

My August 2024 TBR Intentions

My TBR Intentions for August was to knock out the 52 Book Club 2024 Reading Challenge, and I did that! I had five more prompts to go, which were:

  • 13. An academic thriller
  • 17. Nominated for the Booker Prize
  • 37. Palindrome on the cover
  • 42. Author debut in the second half of 2024
  • 48. The word “secret” in the title

And the books I planned for them were as listed below, but subject to change as long as they fit the prompts:

  • If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
  • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I managed to finish the challenge, and the only book I switched out was The Secret Garden for The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. I still want to read it eventually but I was happy to read The Secret Garden too. I’m so happy the challenge is done!

Books Read in August 2024

  1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  2. The Women by Kristin Hannah
  3. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  4. Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
  5. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  6. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
  7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  8. Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
  9. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
  10. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  11. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 1-7 by Nagabe
  12. Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower
  13. Prose and Cons by Amanda Flower
  14. Murder and Metaphors by Amanda Flower
  15. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  16. Wordhunter by Stella Sands
  17. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
  18. Anne’s House of Dreams of L.M. Montgomery

Notable Books This Month

I loved The Women, Oryx and Crake, and Children of Time, but the highlights for me this month were the rereads.

Daddy-Long-Legs, and the Anne of Green Gables series were some of my favorite childhood books and I just love all the memories and vibes they brought back.

11/22/63 is also a reread, even though it’s more recent, but it’s such a great story and I love it so much more this time around because I think I got more out of it.

Reading Challenges

September 2024 TBR Intentions

Most of these are buddy reads I signed up for and bookclub books. The ones with end-of-September deadlines will take priority but I think I can finish most of them, even if I interperse them with other reads in between. I find I do a lot better sticking to my TBR intentions when I have buddy reads and deadlines, so let’s do this!

  1. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  2. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  3. Cujo by Stephen King
  4. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
  5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

How was your month in August? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful September with lots of great books!

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6 responses to “Monthly Wrap Up | August 2024

  1. Wow, it looks like you did an amazing job with your challenges in August, well done haha ✨
    I enjoyed Oryx & Crake a lot when I read it too.
    & oh my gosh I have such strong feelings about Perfume, I am curious to see what you’re gonna think of it! Happy September 🙂

  2. I was looking at your subtitles : do you mean Books Read in August 2024 not July, right? You had a stellar month! Whoa a lot of good ones and big ones too. I’ve read the Julia Armfield novel you have on your list — it’s a bit different but interesting … and a bit mysterious. Enjoy. And congrats on your challenges.

  3. I thought I had already commented, but apparently I didn’t! Yay for completing the 52 challenge so early!! That is quite an accomplishment! Every year I sign up for too many challenges, so this year I didn’t sign up for any. I do too many and put too much pressure on myself, so I was trying to have a low pressure year.

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