July is a busy month in the bookish community. This past month we have seen both the San Diego Comic Con that featured authors such as Victoria Schwab. Then there was the Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC) in London where, I’m told, Jason Momoa meandered through with waves and smiles sending everyone’s cameras flashing. Now, as I live in the middle of nowhere, USA I went to neither of these but I loved seeing everyone’s posts about them. One of these years, folks. One of these years…
Now, what did I actually do bookishly in July? Honestly, not a whole heck of a lot. I spent much of the month in a miserable reading slump and did not get much read at all. But, I still did bookish things! I think it is important to remember that loving books doesn’t mean you have to constantly want to read. You can just enjoy the community, admire cover art, or just day dream about books you’d like to read. Sky is the limit!
Top Ten Tuesday
Books with Red, White, & Blue Covers
Best Books I’ve Read In 2018 (So Far)
Books with Sensory Reading Memories
WWW Wednesday
Down the TBR Hole
Music Mondays
First Line Fridays
First Impression Friday
Ruin of Stars (Mask of Shadows #2) by Linsey Miller
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
Book Spotlight
Evermore (Everless #2) by Sara Holland
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J. Maas
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
Tags and Awards
Read in July
- Invictus by Ryan Graudin 5/5 (reread)
- The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw 4/5 (review to come)
- Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1) by Mira Grant 5/5 (review to come)
- Olmec Obituary (Dr Pimms, Intermillennial Sleuth #1) by L.J.M. Owen 3.5/5
Added to the Shelves
Overview
I was in a huge reading slump throughout July. Every book I tried to pick up just seemed stale and boring. Finally, I just gave in and let the slump take me. Things picked up the last week in July when I got through three books. Of what I read this month, Into the Drowning Deep was my favorite. While I was reading it my husband took a of picture of me and I look nervous, scared, and completely enthralled at the same time. When I post the review I will probably add the picture because it is pretty funny. That book totally and completely sucked me in.
Also in July, I published my first book through Amazon KDP. This was a completely nerve wracking yet exciting process and I’m not ashamed to say that I am so damn proud of myself. You can view the title here: Amelia’s Bargain by Amanda Roberts
That was my bookish July! I hope you all had a wonderful month and I wish you happy reading in August.
Literary Weaponry 
I’m glad you enjoyed The Wicked Deep, it’s one of my favorites this year and I realize that I need to read Invictus, I completely forgot about it lol, it sounds incredible though 😊
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Some people aren’t so impressed with Invictus but I absolutely fell in love. I’ve read it twice since February and am itching to pick it up again. Really great story in my opinion and I hope you love it, too!
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I really want to read Into the Drowning Deep soon! I have it on my kindle but I honestly think I’m just gonna buy the physical copy because I low key love the cover lol.
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The cover is definitely fantastic. I borrowed it form the library but want to add it to my physical collection. To me, there is just nothing like reading a horror/thriller with the weight of it in your hands. Something about it just makes it feel more real to me. Crazy? Perhaps, but everyone has their reading quirks.
Also, read it soon! I’m a relatively slow reader but still finished Into the Drowning Deep in less than 48 hours. Could not put it down. Thoroughly engrossing.
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Haha no, I totally get what you mean! I’m 50/50 on it, because on one hand, I love to read horror/thriller titles in the dark in bed, which makes ebooks great. On the other hand, I LOVE having physical copies of them on my shelf, because every time I look at them, I remember how creepy the good ones were and it makes me so excited to read the next great creepy read. So really, I wish I could justify just having both formats of all of the ones I love, lol!
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Well I got The Wicked deep at YALC this weekend 😉 And congrats on your first published book!
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Thank you! It get giddy just thinking about it. 🙂
I hope you love The Wicked Deep. Fairly short book but really delivers on the low key chills.
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I also hit a huge reading slump this month. I ended up DNFing like three books. Here’s to hoping August will be better!
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I hear you there! I started five books this month that I just didn’t finish. Couldn’t bring myself to slog through them and one was an ARC coming out in a couple weeks. Whoops!
Here’s to a better August.
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