FAVORITE READS OF THE MONTH: August

AUGUST SLIPPED AWAY INTO A MOMENT IN TIME.

Anyways. We hope you all had a lovely summer. Here in Southern California, we have another month of summer as September is basically a continuation of the season. But we’ll pretend cooler days are ahead!!

We consume so many books in a month, that we don’t always get the chance to talk about all of our favorites. So, we’ve decide to set aside a monthly post specifically for talking about our favorite reads that would have otherwise flown under the radar.

Bree:

August was such a weird reading month for me. In an attempt to coerce myself into actually reading titles off my ARC August TBR, I tried to stop myself from getting distracted with too many non-ARC titles. Meaning when I failed to actively attack my TBR, I ended up reading (or rereading) a lot of graphic novels this month. Basically, I don’t really have any specific book I’d like to talk about here. So, I’m just going to mention all the graphic novels/rereads I enjoyed this month!

I am actively burningly way through all the My Hero Academia manga, and binged volumes 20-23 this month. I am really not excited for the day I catch up on all the back volumes of this series and have to wait for weekly comic drops. This month I also reread Heartstopper Volume Three for the third time, and then I happened to get to binge Volume Four immediately afterwards. I’d like to Thank Alice Oseman for posting the Heartstopper comics weekly online & for keeping them all up on tapas, even once the series was picked up by a publisher and organized into volumes. Lastly I reread A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones, in preparation of my read of book two, A Good Day for Chardonnay, which came out on July 27th. I’m almost done with book two and I’m slightly traumatized and waiting to hear if there’s a third book coming in this series. (Okay, I just checked Goodreads, and they have added book three!! Its title is A Hard Day for a Hangover!!)

Tree:

August started strong (in regards to reading) for me! I went on vacation and read a lot!! Then I sort of slowed down (at least for me) and read a ton of fan fiction instead of books so that was a fun time. My favorite this month was Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall. Last moth I read Boyfriend Material by him (and loved it so much) and knew I had to read his latest. Rosaline Palmer follows a single mom (Rosaline) who enters a baking competition a la “The Great British Bake Off”. It’s a romance, but it’s main focus is Rosaline doing something for herself outside of her daughter and learning to be okay with the life she has created. Fair warning, there is a love triangle which typically isn’t my favorite, but it worked here because it really added to Rosaline’s journey. I read this on vacation and if I had not been exhausted/ so busy I would have finished this a lot quicker. Also shoutout to Instructions for Dancing by Nicole Yoon and Forbidden by Karla Sorensen which could have also been picked as my favorite for this month.