September Wrap Up

1. Hear Me Out by Sarah Harding

2. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

3. The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

4. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

5. Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen

Bookopoly – October’s TBR

Here's My Picks:

Roll 1: Alyson Noel – Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel

Roll 2: TBR VET – A Witch in Winter by Ruth Warburton

Roll 3: (Double) Poll Pick – The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

Roll 4: Library Book – Blood and Honey by Shelby Mahurin

 

Books I also want to read in October:

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

September Book Haul

 

1.    The Chimera Code by Wayne Santos

2.    A Demon in Silver by R S Ford

3.    Seven Minutes Later by Bonnie Kistler

4.    The Girl Upstairs by Georgina Lees

5.    A Family Torn Apart by Cathy Glass

6.    Meet Me in London by Georgia Toffolo

7.    The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

8.    Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

Unboxing - A Box of Stories #5

 

FairyLoot Unboxing - Farewell My Love

August Book Haul

 

Blog Birthday

Happy 12th Birthday

Eat lots of cake and read lots of books x

The Mid Year Freak Out Tag

 

August Wrap Up

 

Book Box Subscritions and Out of Control TBRs

So I currently get 3 book box subscriptions, A Box of Stories which comes every other month and FairyLoot and Illumicrate which come every month.

I love my A Box of Stories box as its inexpensive and you never know what your going to get (I currently get the 2 box Fantasy box down from the 4 books Sci-Fi and Fantasy box) the only problem is some of the books really don't sound interesting and out of the 5 boxes that I've recieved so far this year I've read about 4 of the books. I have 15 books unread from A Box of Stories.

I started getting Illumicrate in May and I have had the May, June and July box. With Illumicrate they do a varity of genres so you could get YA or Adult Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Contemporary etc and I'm predomantly a YA Fantasy reader. I didn't want the book in the August box and I couldn't afford the box for September and out of all the boxes there's only been 1 book that I've read and that was May's book The book of Night by Holly Black which I really didn't enjoy, I'm unsure on Junes book We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo and I am dying to read July's book The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones (I just have to get through my library stack first). So I have 2 books unread from Illumicrate.

I started getting FairyLoot in May also and I have had all of the boxes so far as I prefer YA Fantasy and thats why FairyLoot does so when it came to having to only have 1 book box for September I picked FairyLoot (even though I also wanted the book that was in the Illumictare box). I have had 5 books from FairyLoot since May (June was a double book month). May's book was The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah, June's book was This Vicious Grace by Emily Thiede and Twin Crowns by Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber, July's book was The Darkening by Sunya Maya and August's book was Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen but I haven't actually read any of the book even though I am looking forward to geting to The Darkening and Violet Made of Thornes. So I have 5 unread books from FairyLoot.

Altogether I have 22 unread books from book boxes, 25 if I include the 2 A Box of Story books and September's FairyLoot book which will be here sometime this month (and countless books that I already own that I haven't read yet) and even though I seem to be going through a lot of books this year (I'm currently reading book 49)

I think I really need to start reading some of the books I already own and as well as the one's I've been getting from the library and maybe cut back on book box subscritions and buying new books just so I can unhaul the books that have been on my shelf for years that I am either not going to read or that I've read and I'm not going to read again as my shelves are almost full.

How many of you are also having this trouble? Being subscribed to various book boxes but are not actually reading the books I'm curious to know.

I'm thinking of maybe cancelling my subscription with Illumicrate and just keeping FairyLoot and A Box of Stories for the rest of the year and if I'm still inthis situation in the new year cancelling the A Box of Stories box to or at least spreading the subscription out so it comes every 4 months instead of every 2.

Bookoplathon Picks September's TBR

 

FairyLoot Unboxing - Tell Me Lies August 2022

 

September's TBR

So I've decided to give Becca's Bookopoly a go this month to see how I get on with it. I'm only doing 4 rolls as I don't read that many books in a month.

Here's My Picks:
Roll 1: Building - The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Roll 2: Community Shelf (An A Box of Stories book I've not read yet) - Skyfarer by Joseph Brassey
Roll 3: Features a Mystery - The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Roll 4: Becca Rec - The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

Books I need to finish from last month:
Hear Me Out by Sarah Harding