M. Suzanne Terry

Last month’s reading plan got a little off the rails. Some of the library selections that I’ve been waiting on for a while became available, so I jumped at the chance to read them and get them back for the next person waiting in line. 

I’ve started this month with a few books I am finishing from July (The Lonely City, The Maid – which is really for book club this month anyway – and A Field Guide to Getting Lost), but then I’m diving right into this list. As I’ve been transferring my massive TBR to a spreadsheet, I realized I needed a whole tab that’s just various series I am reading/want to read. I read something on it every month anyway, so I’m just adding it as a section here this time.

This month comes with a lot of audio selections, too. August is typically a busy month at both jobs, leaving less time at home to wind down enough to sit still and read, so audio will be helpful. Also, I’m visiting my parents later in the month, so I’ll have several hours of listening time in the car.

Book Clubs

• The Maid by Nita Prose
• An Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie LaCava
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
• After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
• MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
• The Overstory by Richard Powers (audio)
• Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

Reading Challenges

• Read Harder – Book written by an author with a disability – Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (audio); About a period of history you know little about – Pirate Women by Laura Sook Duncombe (audio)
• POPSUGAR – Name of a board game in the title – Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• 52 Book Club – Second person narrator – Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson; technology themed – The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren (audio); told from the villain’s perspective – Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
• Girlxoxo – Keyword “hundred” – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (well, starting it anyway. Maybe I’ll finish it by the end of the year.)
• MMD’s Summer Reading Challenge – To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer; The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (audio); The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon (audio); French Braid by Anne Tyler

Series

• Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown (audio)
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Lush

Still summer. Still hot. You know what’s fun to do in the summer that I always forget to add to my summer bucket list? Read. Especially when the alternative is leaving home to do literally anything else. So I’m going to bask in the last books in Ali Smith’s seasons collection and a book about more books I will inevitably need to read.

• Summer by Ali Smith
• Companion Piece by Ali Smith
• The Books That Changed My Life, edited by Bethanne Patrick

Excellent. Now all I have to do is finish a book a day. That’s doable, right?