Books #30

[emerald]

Are there specific August monthly deals on the Kindle store and where can I find them?

 

[Caffeine Fiend]

Not one of my wish list books is 99p. Rude.

 

[ToxicPony]

Are there specific August monthly deals on the Kindle store and where can I find them?

The kindle ebooks amazon page has a link at the top to deals - they won't all be 99p however. If you wait until a few days into the month, then scroll down to the bottom of the deals page, it will have the books that most people are buying. At the moment it will be full of last months deals that have gone back up in price.

I find it easiest to keep a wishlist and then sort it by price on the 1st of the month.

 

[Caffeine Fiend]

Ive had a quick glance at the deals.

Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano. I loved this, the writing was stunning.

Talking at night - Claire Daverley

Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult / Jennifer Finney Boylan

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

The Nix - Nathan Hill

Milk Teeth - Jessica Andrews

Scenes of a Graphic Nature - Caroline O'Donoghue (author of The Rachel Incident)


Preloved - Lauren Bravo (this is a favourite around here)

The Year of The Locust - Terry Hayes

Darling Girls - Sally Hepworth

 

[emerald]

Ive had a quick glance at the deals.

Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano. I loved this, the writing was stunning.

Talking at night - Claire Daverley

Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult / Jennifer Finney Boylan

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

The Nix - Nathan Hill

Milk Teeth - Jessica Andrews

Scenes of a Graphic Nature - Caroline O'Donoghue (author of The Rachel Incident)


Preloved - Lauren Bravo (this is a favourite around here)

The Year of The Locust - Terry Hayes

Darling Girls - Sally Hepworth

Mad Honey and Year of the Locust were on my wishlist!

 

[nbt]

After the reviews here, I think Talking at Night is going to be my first book of August

 

[epl000]

Ive had a quick glance at the deals.

Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano. I loved this, the writing was stunning.

Ugh I just treated myself to the paperback of this at the weekend.

 

[Caffeine Fiend]

Ugh I just treated myself to the paperback of this at the weekend.

It will be worth it. I read it in hard back and it was beautiful.

 

[mindlessness]

@emerald The Story Edit on IG does helpful posts on the deals each month too!

 

[Caffeine Fiend]

Not one of my wish list books is 99p. Rude.

Okay nevermind me. Turns out its all the KU books that are 99p so it didnt show properly for me in mg wishlist. Quite a few actually. Sorry for the panic ha.

 

[aalmaalm]

I have 160 pages left of Powerless (Elsie Silver) and I am bored I have been reading this book since 13th July and honestly I just am so over it. Definitely the worst one so far in the series
Bring back Cade

I was the same with powerless! But I think childhood friends to lovers is my least favourite trope aswell. I just find it boring. Reckless & Heartless are still my fave books I’ve read!
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I'm still battling my way through As Good As Dead (the third in the Holly Jackson series) on Spotify.

duck meeeee. I've listened to like 7 hours already, it's still got 7 HOURS LEFT!

Not being funny, she's just killed Jason Bell, what the duck else is there to do in this book? Also how is someone who's so intelligent she's solved a murder, a kidnapping and is on track to go to Cambridge so bleeping stupid she thinks she wouldn't be able to get away with a self defence case for murdering the man who was about to kill and decapitate her?!

I really didn’t enjoy the 3rd book! It wasn’t what I was expecting at all! Enjoyed the 1st & 2nd but as good as dead I skimmed the second half I think!

 

[Ding]

Only one book read in July The Flip Side by James Bailey. In a proper reading slump last month and my step dad has been rushed into hospital yesterday so can't even concentrate on reading anything now

 

[123lee]

My wrap up - I managed 10 this month which is not as many for me.

The Wrong Child by M J Arlidge - this was good

Death Rocks - LJ Ross great series

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith another great series

The Paris Notebook by Tessa Harris

Star of the Sea by Joseph O Connor wasn’t a book for me

None of this is True by Lisa Jewell love this authors books

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton pure nostalgic

weird Love - Colleen Hoover couldn’t put this down

Finding Perfect - Colleen Hoover short but sweet

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros I’m not ok after the ending

 

[Meangirl815]

I read a total of 17 books throughout July, mainly a mix of Frieda and 'splatter punk' books. I challenged myself to trying a new (for me) genre, I love a dark book so thought I would push that a bit further. Not a genre I would recommend as it definitely doesn't suit everyone however I will say the groomer will stick with me for a long time and on reflection deserves 5*

I rated all the splatter punk low but I'm not sure if that's fair... I think I just didn't want to admit I found them as readable as I did

 

[Ashlgr]

So today I bought:
(From my wishlist tbr)
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune (so excited!!)
Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton
Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald
Then I bought the Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore; this wasn't on my wishlist tbr pile but I've heard good things and I thought it would be a nice cosy read for an autumn weekend!

 

[LydiaDeetzHat]

Not one of my wish list books is 99p. Rude.

nothing on there appeals this month aside from the absolute win that was Slimming £1 Meals by Miguel Barclay that I have been waiting about 3 yrs on my wish list to go on Kindle deal and down to 99p
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It will be worth it. I read it in hard back and it was beautiful.

each to their own.. I had the arc and didnt think much of it tbh. Glad you enjoyed though

 

[Katykatykaty]

I read a total of 17 books throughout July, mainly a mix of Frieda and 'splatter punk' books. I challenged myself to trying a new (for me) genre, I love a dark book so thought I would push that a bit further. Not a genre I would recommend as it definitely doesn't suit everyone however I will say the groomer will stick with me for a long time and on reflection deserves 5*

I rated all the splatter punk low but I'm not sure if that's fair... I think I just didn't want to admit I found them as readable as I did

I read Woom in 2022 and as sick as it was, I thought it was great! Gave it 5 stars! I always find splatter punk books really hard to rate too. I had the same internal debate with 100% Match in July.

 

[CommentBelow]

nothing on there appeals this month aside from the absolute win that was Slimming £1 Meals by Miguel Barclay that I have been waiting about 3 yrs on my wish list to go on Kindle deal and down to 99p
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each to their own.. I had the arc and didnt think much of it tbh. Glad you enjoyed though

I wasn’t keen on Hello Beautiful either BUT it has inspired me to re-read Little Woman in autumn/winter. I’ve seen a few books compared to LW this year which I didn’t think were great so thought I’d go back to the OG! Although I don’t remember it at all from the first read so not even sure I can count it as a re-read ha.

 

[nbt]

@Meangirl815 omg you read The Groomer I always see that mentioned on the FB psychological thriller group.

Was it a tough read? I don’t think I could do it 🫣

 

[daisynoon]

I wasn’t keen on Hello Beautiful either BUT it has inspired me to re-read Little Woman in autumn/winter. I’ve seen a few books compared to LW this year which I didn’t think were great so thought I’d go back to the OG! Although I don’t remember it at all from the first read so not even sure I can count it as a re-read ha.

I'm also reading LW in winter this year! One of my friends is an Alcott fan, so we've been doing "buddy reads" this year of her work, since I've only read the LW series. We're finishing with LW in December. It's been interesting, Alcott sure had some opinions which would have gone over my head when I was younger.

One of my favourite things that she does is how she utilises the narrative voice to address the reader. She was so bored by the last installment of the LW series, that this is how she ends the final paragraph (Schielmann being an archeologist):

It is a strong temptation to the weary historian to close the present tale with an earthquake which should engulf Plumfield and its environs so deeply in the bowels of the earth that no youthful Schliemann could ever find a vestige of it.