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Oh man, the point horror books! Some of my favourites. I’d be at the library 9am every Saturday morning to check for unread ones and I’d do a weeks worth of chores to get a new one from smiths! nostalgia feels are real lol.
 
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My July wrap up.. I’m so bitter about MoT I might deduct a star 🫣
i went with two stars for mot too but that was really just for the supporting cast 🤣 the more i think about it the more mad i get (especially when i think of the hype it’s getting).

i’ve been thinking about getting the silence in between and i love you x3 for a while though, i think you have now convinced me!
 
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My July books! I’m about a third through The Women and loving it but won’t get finished today!

My Dark Vanessa - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Keep It In The Family - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fetching Raymond - ⭐⭐.5

Book Lovers - ⭐⭐⭐

Prima Facie (Audio) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Serpent and the Wings of the Night - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Talking with Serial Killers - ⭐⭐⭐

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - ⭐⭐⭐

The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Local Woman Missing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Pressure Chamber - ⭐⭐

Clickbait - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Funny Story - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rising Tide - ⭐⭐⭐
 
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I'm surprised at the amount of books I read in July, some of them I thought I finished in June but nope! July has felt long!

Everything you need to know about the pill, Kate Muir - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The night she disappeared, Lisa Jewell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Good Samaritan, John Marrs ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
Everyone here is lying, Shari Lapena ⭐⭐⭐
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Amanda Montell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - If anyone has other recs for books about cults, fiction or non, I'd be grateful!
Sandwich, Catherine Newman ⭐⭐ - a meh end to the month!
 
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A great month for me book wise. Everyone here is lying is the only one that was a slight let down, I love Shari Lapena but this wasn’t her best, enjoyable but not particularly memorable.

I LOVED the rest, really enjoyed Murder in the Family and the unique concept but the standouts have to be the two Elin Hilderbrand’s, my first ever books of hers and OMG I am now obsessed with Nantucket and plan to read the other million books she has written 😅
 
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Can't believe we're at the end of another month! Against the Loveless World was my top read, and I was most disappointed in Where Angels Fear to Tread (the baby dying in the mud?!). Pleasantly surprised by You Are Here; I identified strongly with Marnie, and I enjoy quiet, character-driven stories. Also relieved to shift Brooklyn off my list since I'd owned it since 2018 🫣

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I love these round ups. No good for my tbr but so interesting. I am going to try and make mine into a list later on. Graphics are beyond me.
 
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Mine is easy to make into a list as I hardly read anything 😂 nothing new tbh. I've actually picked up some new hobbies so not even mad I'm not reading much, at least I didn't replace it with more social media eh 😅

Seven Summers- Paige Toon ⭐⭐⭐
Daughters of Castle Deverill-Santa Montefiore ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Just for the Summers- Abby Jimenez ⭐⭐⭐
 
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Ooh I love these Story Graph wrap ups. I’ll post mine later as I still have 25% of The Next Mrs Parrish to go. This month has felt very slow going for me.
 
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
Thank you for reminding me I had the arc of that and haent got to it yet..

my cuurent on the go reads are
About to finish - Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (memoir)
Sustainable Badass by Gittemary Johansen
The Last Dream by Pedro Almodovar
and Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby
 
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i went with two stars for mot too but that was really just for the supporting cast 🤣 the more i think about it the more mad i get (especially when i think of the hype it’s getting).

i’ve been thinking about getting the silence in between and i love you x3 for a while though, i think you have now convinced me!
Silence in Between has inspired me to read a non-fic on East Germany/the wall so have moved Beyond the Wall up my list.

For me ILUx3 was one of those books I connected with straight away, the main character is pretty much the same age as me and it brought back all the nostalgia.
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A great month for me book wise. Everyone here is lying is the only one that was a slight let down, I love Shari Lapena but this wasn’t her best, enjoyable but not particularly memorable.

I LOVED the rest, really enjoyed Murder in the Family and the unique concept but the standouts have to be the two Elin Hilderbrand’s, my first ever books of hers and OMG I am now obsessed with Nantucket and plan to read the other million books she has written 😅
I know I’m constantly saying I’m moving things up my TBR but I’m really going to have to move Nantucket up my list!
 
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when I say I near flipped my lid this morning when I saw I’d lost my streak 🤬🤬🤬 I read yesterday but not according to kindle! I tried everything and nothing helped so I messaged Amazon …… it’s an issue their end 😮💨😮💨😮💨😰
Normal service can resume 🤣
 
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I only managed two this month! Read ACOChristmas at the start of the month and it 100% put me off picking up a book for weeks, so I reverted to fan fiction. Managed Reckless in the last few days though.
 
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when I say I near flipped my lid this morning when I saw I’d lost my streak 🤬🤬🤬 I read yesterday but not according to kindle! I tried everything and nothing helped so I messaged Amazon …… it’s an issue their end 😮💨😮💨😮💨😰
Normal service can resume 🤣
This has happened to me a couple of times and I feel annoyed and freed, and then the streak updates and I'm back in it again 😅
 
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I only managed two this month! Read ACOChristmas at the start of the month and it 100% put me off picking up a book for weeks, so I reverted to fan fiction. Managed Reckless in the last few days though.
ACOChristmas 😭 I need a break from ACO anyway but there's no way I'm going to read a Christmas novella, especially in summer
 
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ACOChristmas 😭 I need a break from ACO anyway but there's no way I'm going to read a Christmas novella, especially in summer
You don't need to read it at Christmas either, waste of paper!!
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I have just ordered like 9 books off the Harper Collins wesbite while they've got 50% off though
 
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when I say I near flipped my lid this morning when I saw I’d lost my streak 🤬🤬🤬 I read yesterday but not according to kindle! I tried everything and nothing helped so I messaged Amazon …… it’s an issue their end 😮💨😮💨😮💨😰
Normal service can resume 🤣
This happened to me last night! I only remembered at 11.52pm that I’d not read any of my kindle. If you ever do miss a day, you can put your kindle/phone in airplane mode, change the date to the missed day, read a few pages and then change back. I did that last night and it worked. Might take a few hours to update but when I checked this morning all was okay 😅

ETA - I go on holiday in a couple of weeks and not sure if I’ll get chance to read every day. If I keep my kindle in airplane mode or don’t connect to WiFi, will it automatically keep my reading streak?
 
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