The month that was… August 2023

Well, it’s somehow September, and we’re now coming into autumn which is my favourite time of year. August was a good month, despite the decidedly mixed weather (have we even had a summer?!) It started with a week away with family, during which I got a surprising amount of reading done. I also spent the bank holiday weekend in Bath, one of my favourite cities in the UK. Having visited a number of times before, there was no pressure to do anything – my OH and I simply enjoyed being somewhere different, and it was a wonderful relaxing weekend.

Despite a good start to the month from a reading perspective, I then suffered a minor reading slump during which any book I picked up just didn’t take, even ones I’d been looking forward to. I may come back to them at some point – I’m becoming more of a mood reader, and so I suspect the issue was more me than the books. This did also mean that my blogging was a little hit and miss throughout the month, although I did – just! – manage to complete 20 Books of Summer! 🥳

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Books Acquired

I was a little more restrained this month, but not much, and the trip to Bath with it’s wonderful bookshops didn’t help matters, and 6 of those shown were purchased during that weekend! The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami has just been republished by Bloomsbury, but being contrary, I sought out a copy of the original paperback from 2015.

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TBR Watch

If there’s any benefit to a reading slump…

• Books out = 10 read + 3 DNF* = 13
• Books in = 9 purchases
• Gives a reduction of 4 in my TBR

*I may come back to the DNFs at a later date, but for now they have been removed from my TBR.