Dancing out of August 2021

August was mostly a good month despite the weird weather. Rain and not all that warm.

The Numbers

In August I read a total of 9 books which makes the total of 2021 70 books read.
Of the 9 books 6 books were Fantasy and 3 books were sci-fi. I dnfed two others.
Out of the 31 days of August I read 9 days which amounted to a total of 2222 pages.
The rating average of this month was 4,2.

1. Hades by Ursula Visser | 3,5 stars | Short Stories
2. A Dragonbird in the Fern by Laura Rueckert | 4 stars | ARC
3. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot 1) by Becky Chambers | 4,5 stars | Novella
   X Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | DNF | ARC
4. Bloodwork (Seekers 0.5) by Josie Jaffrey | 4 stars | ARC | Novella
5. Goddess in the Machine (Goddess in the Machine 1) by Lora Beth Johnson | 4 stars
6. Devil in the Device (Goddess in the Machine 2) by Lora Beth Johnson | 3,5 stars | ARC
7. Men at Arms (Discworld 15) by Terry Pratchett | 5 stars
8. Heartstopper volume 4 by Alice Oseman | 5 stars
9. Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis | 4,5 stars | ARC
   X The Antidote by Susan McCormack | DNF | ARC
   

Well despite having dnfed two books, arcs at that, I still had a pretty decent reading month with 2 5 star reads and 2 4,5 star reads. But what else was I to expect when I pick up Pratchett and Chambers haha.

 

⌘ I feel like August just flew right on by. I had two weeks at home with Merijn while husband went back to work. We did some fun activities. Making paper ourselves (of which I made gift tags you can find in the shop), playground dates with friends, nature playground, water festival and so on. No pictures of me because I am the picture taker not the one on the pictures haha.

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⌘ The last week of his summer vacation he stayed with my parents so I had some chance to do things. I always try but I never end up being that productive. But it was good to recharge on my own for a bit.

⌘ August 23rd was the day that Merijn started school again. He is very proud of being in group/grade 2 (Kindergarten year 2).

⌘ And of course he turned 5!!!

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⌘ Right now I am trying to find my groove back now he is back at school. Maybe I’ll be able to read a little more. One can hope.

Announcements and the Like
⌘ Merijn | Five Five Five
⌘ The Renewal of The Magical Readathon!

Wrap Ups and Other Memes
⌘ Dancing out of July 2021
⌘ Show Your Bujo Theme | June & July 2021

Reviews
⌘ Nora and the Sacred Stones by Laura Hatch Ruper | ARC
⌘ The Witness for the Dead (The Goblin Emperor 2) by Katherine Addison | ARC
⌘ Rea and the Blood of the Nectar (The Chronicles of Astranthia 1) by Payul Doshi | ARC
⌘ A Dragonbird in the Fern by Laura Rueckert | ARC
⌘ Blood Work (Seekers 0.5) by Josie Jaffrey | ARC
⌘ Goddess in the Machine (Goddess in the Machine 1) by Lora Beth Johnson
⌘ Devil in the Device (Goddess in the Machine 2) by Lora Beth Johnson | ARC

Top Ten Tuesday
⌘ Beautiful Covers That Make Me Want to Buy the Book (But I Haven’t Yet)
⌘ 15 Book Titles That Really Caught My Interest
⌘ 20 Books Based or Inspired by Norse Mythology
⌘ Young Adult Books at the Younger End
⌘ Favorite Characters from My 2019-2020 Reading

Discussions, Topics and the Like
⌘ My Own Made Bookmarks | In Line with Annemieke
⌘ Goodreads Has an Young Adult Week | 2021
⌘ Book Haul | End of Summer Vacation

⌘ Star Trek Picard | Season 1 | Ep 1-10 | Complete
They finally showed Picard here (we don’t have Netflix or the like) and we quite enjoyed it. Very curious where season 2 will take us.

⌘ Clarice | Season 1 | Ep 1 to 8
On a whim I started watching Clarice, set after The Silence of the Lambs. There were only 8 episodes available in our plus tv package which sucked because I actually liked it.

⌘ The Challenge | Season 34 | Ep 1-3
And on a whim I started watching the new season of The Challenge. I used to watch the earlier seasons but then stopped. But I’d like to follow this season once again. There is always so much drama between everyone haha.

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Blogs

⌘ Sumedha from The Wordy Habitat shares 8 Blog Maintenance Tasks to Do Regularly.
⌘ Sci-Fi Month is back this November!

This monthly wrap up will be linked up with the monthly one by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction. This so we can blog hop to each others wrap ups easier.