August TBR

Hey all, Sam here.

I can’t believe I’m working on my August (August?!) TBR already. Where has this year gone? I always look forward to August, because my birthday kicks off the month, and the beginning of the month also marks our annual trip to Gen Con in Indianapolis. I love going to the convention and trying out some tabletop games, buying lots of gaming products and accessories, and checking out a number of awesome panels at the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium.

But I also usually look forward to a number of fantasy reads for the month. I don’t know what it is about the height of summer that makes me want to tackle more epic fantasy type reads. It’s usually the height of summer or the height of winter that gets me in a chonky fantasy mood. That late spring/cusp of summer time is definitely more of a contemporary fantasy or beach read rom com time.

Anyway, as always, I have a nice selection of NetGalley reads for the month, and then a few other potential reads that I’m excited about, so let’s just get right into talking about them all.

The Doors of Midnight by R.R. Virdi (Aug 13), The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean (Aug 13), Asunder by Kerstin Hall (Aug 20), The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki (Aug 27)

The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter (Aug 27), The Enchanted Lies of Celeste Artois by Ryan Graudin (Aug 27), Between Dragons and Their Wrath by Devin Madson (Aug 27), The Book Swap by Tessa Bickers (Sept 4)

And…I’ll be completely honest here…normally I’d have at least four more books for this list, but you can go back and look at my July TBR and possibly even my June TBR…and you’ll find a number of books that I still need to read. July has been pretty much a reading slump month, and I’m fairly certain that my wrap-up is going to be rather brief.

I keep hoping that I’ll sort out more time to read…and it just keeps not happening. Normally I get at least a few hours of reading time at work each week, but the past few weeks it has been busy enough to where I don’t even get to open a book.

Obviously, I’ve also been absolutely terrible at keeping up with blog posts too. I owe you guys a bunch of book reviews, so I’m going to try and get back on the horse (so to speak) and get some reviews prepped up and get back to posting.

All right, that’s all from me for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I will hopefully be back very soon with more geeky content.