August Book Report

August 2022, Hampton Beach, NH

I finished 8 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“We both know you can’t tell your own story without exposing someone else’s.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 1 was non-fiction (toward my goal of 25 non-fiction books this year) and it will  count toward the NonFiction Reader Challenge once I blog about it
• none were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none was poetry (toward my goal of reading 4 poetry books this year)
• 1 counted toward the the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge which began 7/1/2022. 
• none were from my Classics Club List but 1 counted toward Back to the Classics

• 3 counted toward the Cruisin' Through the Cozies challenge 
• 2 counted toward the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• 1 counted toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• 0 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• 0 was a book for my Century of Books project
• 6 were from my 20 Books of Summer list 

 Here are the books I finished in August 2022: 

1. Sentenced to Death by Lorna Barrett (3-stars)
2. Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields  (4-stars)
3. The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi (4-stars)
4. The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont (5-stars)
5. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett (3-stars)
6. Shades of Earl Grey by Laura Childs (3-stars)
7. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (5-stars)
8. Bran New Death by Victoria Hamilton (3-stars)

I completed my 20 Books of Summer reading list this month, though it ended up being quite different from the list I started with as 6 of the original books got crossed off in favor of other titles.