All the Books- August

No cover shots this time around, there are just too many books. A couple are kids books so they went fast, and I was often reading more than one at a time in a variety of formats. And we went on vacation for a week so I read more there too.

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard: (physical book) This was good but not great. I’d recommend other YA books over this one.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton: (ebook) I read this ages and ages ago and enjoyed it just as much this time around. Go dinosaurs!

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King: (downloadable audiobook) I love SK and I love The Dark Tower. And I actually listened to the entire thing instead of skipping the middle since I find it boring.

A Wind in The Door by Madeline L’Engle: (downloadable audiobook) A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books ever so when I saw this available as a downloadable audiobook one day while I was searching through Overdrive I had to snatch it up for a quick listen, which it was. And I loved it.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L’Engle: (downloadable audiobook) Ditto

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling: (downloadable audiobook) I waited forever for this one from the library. I’ve read it a bunch of times but there’s something different about listening to it. Another fave.

The Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness: (ebook) My other favorite series is the All Souls Trilogy, of which this is the 2nd. This is the 3rd time I’ve read this one and it will be the 2nd time I’ve read the last one. I looooove them.

All in all it was a really satisfying month of reading!

All The Books- July

July feels like it was a less successful month reading-wise but I probably just listened to a lot of podcasts.

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. I finally let myself finish the All Souls trilogy and I actually read a physical book to finish with the Book of Life. It was the perfect ending to what may be my 2nd favorite series ever (it’s a hard race between Dark Tower, Harry Potter and this).

Bag of Bones by Stephen King. Other than the Dark Tower this is my favorite SK book. I recently got this from Audible and it’s the only book that Stephen King reads himself, which for some reason makes it that much more awesome to me. I’ve read it a bunch of times and I will continue to listen/read it over and over again.

The Waste Lands by Stephen King. More SK. I’m working my way through The Dark Tower on audiobook and each month using my Audible credit to fill in the DT books I don’t already have. Next up, Wizard and Glass, which is my least favorite book of all of them, I really don’t care about young Roland. However, that’s up for next month!

All the Books- June

June was a big month for listening!

Cress by Marissa Meyer. The third book in the Lunar Chronicles. I was so sad when it ended because I had no idea there would be another book after this! Winter is coming out in the Fall and I can’t wait!

half of The Illustrated Man and The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury. I just couldn’t finish either of them, although I love Ray Bradbury. The Veldt and The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl are still two of my favorite stories of all time though, I highly recommend them.

The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King. The Dark Tower is my favorite series ever and I’m working my way through them all again. I could spend all day with Roland, Eddie, Susannah and Jake.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling. Because it’s Harry Potter. What’s not to love?

All the books- May

It’s a bit past May but I still think it’s worth sharing what I listened to last month.

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King (e-audiobook on iPhone 6, borrowed from the library)

Inferno by Dan Brown (e-book on Android tablet borrowed from the library)

Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (e-audiobook on iPhone 6 that I bought from Audible awhile ago)

I hadn’t read Inferno before, it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t horrible. I read it while we were in Seattle. Both The Tommyknocker’s and Salem’s Lot are books I have read many times and it was great to listen to them because it felt like every once in a while I would pick up on something that I might’ve missed while reading it.

Yay for e-books and e-audiobooks!