Reading Month in Review

Welcome in, do join me by sharing your link to your look back at this month. I'm looking forward to visiting and seeing what everyone has been up to.  The link will be open for you to share your post whenever you post over the next few days.  Do visit each others' posts.

Total books read this month: 11

Books Read: 

The Inauguaral Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club  Sophie Green - 4 stars

The Art of Hiding - Amanda Prowse   -  4.5 stars
The Devil's Cut.   J. R. Ward - 5 stars
Something Like Happy   Eva Woods 4 stars
No Place I'd Rather Be  Cathy Lamb   5 stars
Sister's Choice   Emilie Richards   5 stars (reread via audiobook)
The Summer That Made Us   Robyn Carr   4 stars
Between Sisters   Cathy Kelly 3 stars
The Girl From Munich  Tania Blanchard 4 stars
At Home in Mitford   Jan Karon    3 stars
Clean Sweep  Ilona Andrews   4 stars - audiobook.

Book Formats:

Paperback	Four
E-Book	Four
Audiobook	Two
From TBR shelf	One
Review Books	Six
From my New Shelf	Two

Genres Read

Contemporary Romance	Zero
Crime/Suspense	Zero
Fantasy	One
Mainstream Fiction	Eight
Historical Fiction	Two
Memoir	Zero

New to me authors.
Jan Karon
Eva Woods
Tania Blanchard
Sophie Green
Cathy Kelly

Top Book for August

Looking Forward to coming out in September

I don't have any particular huge looking forward to for the books I am reading in September but coming out in late September, this book I will most likely  get to read  at the end of the month - the latest Guild Hunter's book.

Incoming Books during August.

Paperback Books Purchased:

Books coming from NetGalley or Edelweiss

Pre-Ordered

So how did your reading month pan out?

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Month in Review Wrap Up

Welcome in, do join me by sharing your link to your look back at this month. I'm looking forward to visiting and seeing what everyone has been up to.  The link will be open for you to share your post whenever you post over the next few days.  Do visit each others' posts.

Total books read this month: 18, 10 of which were review books.

Audio Books Read:

Survivor in Death   J. D. Robb
Summer's End   Mary Alice Monroe
Magic Flutes    Eva Ibbotson

Ebooks Read

Inconsolable   Ainslie Paton
Wildest Dreams  Robyn Carr
If You Only Knew    Kristan Higgins
Ransom Canyon      Jodi Thomas
Starlight on Willow Lake   Susan Wiggs
The Beast's Garden     Kate Forsyth
Marriage in Mustang Creek   Linda Lael Miller
Rainy Day Sisters     Kate Hewitt

Paperbacks Read
First Impressions     Jude Deveraux
Midnight Promises  Sherryl Woods
Blood Brothers     Nora Roberts
Quicksilver          Amanda Quick
Running Like China   Sophie Hardcastle
Early One Morning   Virginia Baily
Ravenscar      Barbara Taylor Bradford


Genres Read
Romantic Suspense 4, Contemporary romance 5, Women's Fiction 4, Memoir 1, Fairytale retelling 1, Historical romance 1, Historical Fiction 1,

Places Where I Read.
Nth Carolina, Sth Carolina, New York, Oregon, Texas, Maryland, Wyoming, - USA.  Sydney, near Whyalla, near Eyre Peninsula, - Australia.  Berlin, Germany. Vienna, Austria. Rome, Italy.  Yorkshire, Cumbria, -  England.

New to me authors this month:
Sophie Hardcastle
Virginia Baily
Kate Hewitt

Top Book for August

This is a memoir, and while I read a couple of others which could easily have been my top book - for the courage of the author, excellent writing and the insight that it gave me into mental illness, I name this one as my top book for August. My review for it will be posted later this week.

Incoming Books.

Paperback Books Purchased:
Nothing

Kindle Books Purchased:
The Secret Sister        Brenda Novak   $3.30
The Other Daughter   Lauren Willig  $9.96
Cinder                        Marissa Meyer   $5.74

Library Books: 

Midnight Promises     Sherryl Woods

Books coming from NetGalley
The Beast's Garden    Kate Forsyth
The Patterson Girls    Rachael Johns
A Window Opens      Elizabeth Elgan
Along the Infinite Sea     Beatriz Williams
The Good Neighbor     Amy Sue Nathan
Rainy Day Sisters      Kate Hewitt
All I Want                  Jill Shalvis

Hachette NZ
Running Like China   Sophie Hardcastle
Early One Morning   Virginia Baily

Audio Books 

The Summer's End  Alice Mary Monroe  - 1 Audible credit.
Magic Flutes    Eva Ibbotson   -  1 Audible credit
The Lost Night    Jayne Castle - 1 Audible credit

Pre-Ordered
As you don't actually pay for these until they are delivered they will be counted in the month they are published.

New Leaf by Catherine Anderson - published in Jan 2016. Kindle version.
Fatal Frenzy by Marie Force  - published September 15 2015  Kindle version

Book Spending:  $19 (USA)  =  $29.40 (NZ)

So how did your reading month pan out?