JULY WRAP UP | 31 books in 31 days! ~ 2022 releases, romances & lots of manga! 📚

Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog! It’s been a wild month for me and somehow it’s over now! I’ve been experimenting with week-long reading experiments on my blog and I also co-hosted round 6 of the Graphicsathon this month AND I caught covid from my family, so it was a very hectic month with some great highs and major lows. But, all in all, I think it was a really good month and I read some new and old favourites! I’m officially so excited for August to see if I can keep this positive streak going!

Goodreads Challenge Update!

Quick Stats:

• Pages read: 9,876 pages
• Books read: 31 books

• Most disappointing book of the month – Garnet Flats
• Worst book of the month – Cleopatra and Frankenstein
• Most surprising book of the month – See You Yesterday
• Best book of the month – A Sign of Affection Vol 1

MONTH	PAGE COUNT	READ COUNT
JAN	8,356 pages	25 books
FEB	12,464 pages	38 books
MAR	7,308 pages	17 books
APR	15,002 pages	39 books
MAY	4,336 pages	11 books
JUNE	6,002 pages	12 books
JULY	9,876 pages	31 books
TOTAL	63,344 pages	173 books

🌻 – Buddy read | 🎧 – Audiobook | 🔁 – Re-read | 🌈 – LGBTQIA+ rep | 🟣 – disability rep | ✨ – 2022 release

*Click on the titles for my Goodreads reviews! You can also find my StoryGraph reviews here!

For the first week of the month, I challenged myself to read only ✨ 2022 releases ✨ – you can find my blog post with all my reviews here!

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• Something Wilder [01/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – Not fantastic but this would make such a fun movie!
• Book Lovers [02/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – Unfortunately, this was just so boring.
• A Chance For Us [03/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – Very fast-paced but, I did still enjoy it!
• The Stranger In 8B [01 – 03/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – I really enjoyed this one, I’ll definitely continue in this series as the books come out.
• We Had to Remove This Post [04/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Absolutely disturbing but very well-written.
• So This Is Ever After [04/07] 🎧✨🌈 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Another book that would make a fun movie or show! This had an interesting world and cast of characters + love story, but it was so predictable and slow-paced that it was a bit boring, honestly.

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• Cleopatra and Frankenstein [05/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐ – It’s a no from me chief.
• See You Yesterday [06/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – This was truly the first time I’ve ever enjoyed the Groundhog day trope and I highly recommend this one!
• Kaiju Preservation Society [06 – 07/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – A lot of fun!!
• Sea of Tranquility [07/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – Great writing, boring story.
• In Deeper Waters [08/07] 🎧🌈 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Not as good as So This Is Ever After, but I did still really enjoy this and I’ll definitely be reading whatever Lukens writes next!
• Perfect World Vol 10 [011/07] 🟣✨ – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – I haven’t been absolutely loving the last few volumes in this series but, I really enjoyed this one!

From the 11th to the 17th, I co-hosted the Graphicsathon over on Twitter

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• A Sign of Affection Vol 1 [11/107] 🟣 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – absolutely gooped and gagged over this rn, this was so wholesome I need to pace around a room I’m feeling too many things all at once
• A Sign of Affection Vol 2 [11/07] 🟣 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Not as good as the ultimate manga romance Sweat and Soap, but, this is still really cute!
• A Sign of Affection Vol 3 [11/07] 🟣 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – This series is so easy to binge!
• A Sign of Affection Vol 4 [11/07] 🟣 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – This was definitely my favourite volume so far!
• A Sign of Affection Vol 5 [11/07] 🟣✨ – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – I’m seriously loving this series! It’s so cute and such a fast read!
• A Sign of Affection Vol 6 [11/07] 🟣✨ – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – Okay that cliffhanger was unfair!

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• Séance Tea Party [12/07] ⭐⭐⭐.75 – I loved the cute spooky vibes!
• From Lukov with Love [12/07] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐- No joke, I literally put the audiobook on and just never turned it off. This cured 80% of my awful mood and distracted me from feeling icky. 10 brownie points.
• Marriage For One [14/07] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – I won’t lie, I absolutely love this book!
• The Wall of Winnipeg and Me [15 – 16/07] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – I’ve read this six times in just over a year if that tells you anything about how much I enjoy it.
• Stalking Jack The Ripper [16/07] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – I just was not in the mood for these characters today.
• Hunting Prince Dracula [17/07] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Definitely better than book 1.

This is the week I got Covid-19 😒 so I pretty much didn’t read anything for a week [20-26/07]

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• Caraval [18/07] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – It genuinely feels so good to be back in this world!
• Legendary [19/07] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – I cannot stand Tella so though I try, I will never be able to enjoy this book.
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [27/07] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Absolutely ridiculous. but in a good way.
• Finale [20-28/07] 🎧 – ⭐⭐.75 – One day, someone will end a trilogy on a high note and we’ll all die of absolute and utter shock. This was not good.
• Indigo Ridge [29/07] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Earlier this year I read book 2 in this series and enjoyed it but didn’t *love* it, but I randomly felt the urge to get back into this series and I have to say I really enjoyed this one and I genuinely think I’ll continue this series throughout the years as each book comes out.
• Juniper Hill [29-30/07] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – I think this is my favourite book in the series so far, I’m a sucker for the single parent trope.

• Garnet Flats [30-31/07] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – My least favourite book in the series so far, but still a pretty good read. I definitely think I’ll love book 4, it sounds completely up my alley!

[IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT I’M READING WHILE I’M READING, YOU CAN CATCH ME ON GOODREADS OR STORYGRAPH]

🔁 – Rewatch // 🌈 – LGBTQIA+ // ✨ – 2022 release

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• The Hating Game [02/07] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Honestly this isn’t a good movie but I love the sets and it’s a good background movie so don’t be surprised if you keep seeing this in future wrap-ups.
• Persuasion [16/07] ✨ – ⭐⭐.5 – The sheer disrespect of this movie existing and also not putting Richard E Grant’s name on the poster.
• Once Upon A Time in Wonderland [22/07] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – It’s like a badly made and badly written student film but, I have this love for it that I’ll never be able to explain. I’m honestly shocked they made more than one episode.
• Gilmore Girls Season 1 [23-24/07] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – when you have covid you’re forced to automatically watch comfort tv
• Gilmore Girls Season 2 [24-26/07] 🔁- ⭐⭐⭐- there’s nothing quite like Luke’s rage rants to get me through a bad slump.
• Gilmore Girls Season 3 [26-27/07] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐- so much Jess drama, so little time.

[IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT I’M WATCHING WHILE I’M WATCHING, YOU CAN CATCH ME ON LETTERBOXD & TVTIME]

What did you read this month?
Did we read/watch any of the same things?

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