August Book Report

Hampton Beach, NH 8/2023

I finished 10 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

"What you see and how you see it can change your life. A sleight of hand. A shift of perspective, and one can suddenly become an instrument of the Divine."
--Katherine J. Chen, Joan, p. 190

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 2 were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none counted toward the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge 
• 2 were from my Classics Club List 
• 1 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• 1 counted toward the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge which I have now completed
• 1 counted toward the 2023 What's in a Name Challenge
• none were from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• 8 were from my (continuously revised) #20BooksofSummer23 list which I completed on the very last day of August
• none were from the mystery series I am trying to make progress on this year

 Here are the books I finished in August 2023: 

1. Switch by Chip Heath (4-stars)
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (3-stars)
3. Stolen by Ann-Helen Laestadius (4-stars)
4. Pint-sized Ireland by Evan McHugh (4-stars)
5. Joan by Katherine J. Chen (5-stars)
6. Maame by Jessica George (3-stars)
7. The Love Prescription by John M. Gottman (5-stars)
8. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (3-stars)
9. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (3-stars)
10. Africa is Not a Country by Dipo Faloyin (4-stars)

 I have completed one of my challenges for 2023, and by the skin of my teeth read my 20 books of summer within the allotted timeframe. The next goal is to complete by Classics Club list by October 1 (5 years from when I made the list). I have 3 books left to go and am in progress on one of them. There are 2 short-ish ones that I hope to finish during September so it will be a stretch but I might make this (self-imposed) deadline.