I am too tired to really do a meaningful introduction to this wrap-up, so you get me babbling for a while. This week has been crazy with major work deadlines, so my personal life kind of went non-existent for a couple of weeks. No good gym workouts, no reading. But! I did manage to do a cleaning/organizing task I'd been putting off for so long. Yay!
In this wrap-up,
I’ll list the books I read, the books I reviewed, the books I bought/received,
and my TBR for next month. Now, let’s get this bookish party started!
Books Read in October
I only read four books in October, and they were all read in the first two weeks of the month too. The last two weeks were just too crazy at work, so I had to watch mind-numbing videos on my phone to clear my head. But, hopefully now that the deadlines are done, reading can commence once again. As for the books I read, two of them were Kindle Unlimited reads: Tryggred by the Orc by Finley Fenn and Goldfinch by Raven Kennedy. However, Goldfinch I technically own copies of, so that counts as a physical book I checked off my list. Lol. Then I slogged through Fortuna Sworn for book club. Ugh. It was just not my vibe. I also read Sorcery and Small Magics for review, and I really enjoyed it. Both of those two books were physical copies, so yay! Knocking books of my physical TBR one at a time.
Books Bought/Received in October
Well, here's the icky math part of the post. Gosh. I don't even want to know the damage this has done me. I'm for sure going to have to sell some books because this is nuts. I bought a total of 42 books in October and received 14 that I didn't pay for in the month, which basically means they were preorders/books ordered in September. Altogether, 30 of the books actually made their way to me in October.
For the 14 books I received, they were all preorders or orders that just didn't get delivered until this month. They include the Waterstones editions of Goldfinch, the FairyLoot edition of The Half King by Melissa Landers, the LitHaven editions of King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Claire and The Book of Azrael by Amber Nicole, Arcane's The Ever Seas duology, the Spanish editions of the first three books in the FBAA series, and the five books in the Acrylipics FBAA set.
This is where it gets unbelievably ugly. I bought sooooo much. As for the 16 books I bought that I actually received in October, those consisted primarily of my 14 Barnes & Noble preorders/orders: Bloodguard by Cecy Robson, The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen, Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee, Never Keep by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti, Frigid by JLA, World After and End of Days by Susan Ee, Swordcrossed by Freya Marske, When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker, Stone Cold Touch by JLA, and The Stars Are Dying by Chloe C. Penaranda. Three others were from trades. Those included Arcane ApollyCon editions of The Crown of Oaths and Curses by J. Bree and FBAA and the Primal of Life BOBAA edition. And then I have two Pango purchases: Oblivion by JLA, which isn't in the greatest shape, so I'm likely going to get rid of it, and Bride by Ali Hazelwood, the Target edition.
My preorders for the month/books that haven't arrived yet is where things get out of control. The list includes 27 books. Yikes. The preorders consist of the Arcane editions of FBAA 1-5, the ApollyCon Books for Days Crate preorder for A Shadow in the Ember and Kingdom of Crowns and Daggers, the two Arcane sub books for the month, the Bookish Box Lux editions books 1-2, two Owlcrate Carissa Broadbent books, and the author lux edition of Zodiac Academy book one. The remaining books are just ones that will arrive soon, if they haven't already. They include the FairyLoot Adult and Romantasy sub books, my B&N signed and unsigned editions of ASITE, a Pango used copy of ALITF, the B&N editions of Rachel Gillig's Shepherd's King duology, used Mercari copies of FBAA 1-5 for new dustjackets, and Harper L. Wood's special paperback edition of What Lurks Between the Fates.
Currently Obsessed With
As for TV/films, I watched something new in October!
Well, technically it's not entirely new. I watched previous seasons of the show before, but the third season released. That counts as new then, right? Anyway, the third season of Heartstopper came out, and I watched it all. Other than that, I'm mostly watching Law & Order: SVU and the Eras Tour livestreams on weekends. I did watch Hocus Pocus with my sister. She came over to have a Halloween movie night with brownies and pizza about two weeks before Halloween actually happened. Ha ha.
November TBR
I didn't read like half the books on my TBR, so, surprise, surprise, there are a lot of repeats. I still need to finish The Prince's Poisoned Vow by Hailey Turner and Salt in the Wound by Sierra Simone. I started these a couple of months ago and never picked them back up even though I want to finish them. Ugh. I also need to read and review The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe and Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu, which has been on my to-review list for months now. Oops. And then I added Fear the Flames as an ApollyCon read and Bloodguard as a book club pick. And I'm currently reading Lucinda Dark's A Sword of Shadow and Deceit on Kindle Unlimited.
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Okay, well, that's the month of October, plus some November sneak peeks, all wrapped up into one post. Do you have a wrap-up post for last month? If so, share in the comments!
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