🌳 JULY reading 🌳

It’s time for another monthly reading recap!

Look at me, actually posting this when I intended to instead of putting it off for weeks! 😅 As some of you may have seen from my June recap post, I’m considering doing away with monthly recaps altogether, but I still haven’t made up my mind about it. On one hand, I don’t really enjoy writing these posts, but on the other hand, I feel like they’re a lot easier for you all to read at a glance, compared to reading my weekly check-in posts.

To be totally honest, I’m feeling some type of way about blogging in general lately. It isn’t bringing me much joy these days, and it hasn’t been for a while. I keep wondering if this blog has run its course, or if I’m just in a slump. Not to sound woeful or anything, but views and engagement are at an all-time low and I find myself wondering, what’s the point in writing these posts if nobody is interested in them? 😅 I’m enjoying bookstagram updates a lot more these days and I’m really considering switching all of my content over there and just leaving this site up as a time capsule. I just renewed my hosting for the next 3 years, so I’ve got plenty of time to decide, I guess…

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✨ month at a glance ✨

• books completed: 6
• books DNFed: 1
• avg rating: 3.3
• avg pages read per day: 59
• best book(s): Whalefall
• worst book(s): Beast of Burden and The 120 Days of Sodom

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✨ ratings ✨

(each title link will direct you to my review for more thoughts!)

• Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
• You Like It Darker by Stephen King

• nothing this month

• Give Unto Us by Justin Lutz
• How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

• Wrestling with Werewolves by Hazel Mack

• The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade

• Beast of Burden by Judith Sonnet (DNF for excessive fatphobia)

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✨ hauls ✨

I did a lot of damage at the used bookstore in July, but it was all bought with store credit that I got for free by completing the McKay’s 50th Birthday Road Trip challenge! 🥳 I won’t list them all, but here’s a photo of my haul:

• Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson (print ARC, pictured above)
• Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon (eARC)
• You Will Speak for the Dead by R.A. Busby (eARC)
• The Songbird & the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent (eARC)
• The House on the Cover of a Horror Novel by E.V. Knight (eARC)
• Bound in Blood: Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors edited by Johnny Mains (eARC)
• Church Girl by Naima Simone (eARC)
• Stinetinglers 3 by R.L. Stine (ALC)

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How was your month? What was your favorite book you read or hauled, or what was something nice that happened in your life?

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— destiny ♥

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