It’s time for a look at my SEPTEMBER reading life!

It’s time for another wrap-up/haul post — and some fun stats!

September was a lot less busy than the summer months were, yet I somehow also read less than I have for the past several months! Go figure. 🤷‍♀️ I had a ton of 5-star reads this month and mostly read via audiobooks. I found a new all-time favorite and almost everything I read was a buddy read! All in all, I’d say it was a really good reading month! 🥰

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The month at a glance: books completed: 17 books DNFed: 3 average rating: 4.28 best book: How to Sell a Haunted House worst book: Soul of a Witch

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What I read:

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

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✨ review copy → 💞 buddy/group read → 🔁 re-read → 🎧 audiobook → 🍰 graphic novel/manga
🤷‍♀️ TBR jar → 🗓️ 2023 TBR → 🌻 seasonal TBR

• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches // Sangu Mandanna 💞
• The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King // Carissa Broadbent 💞
• How to Sell a Haunted House // Grady Hendrix ✨💞🎧🗓️🌻
• Small Spaces // Katherine Arden (RE-READ) 💞🔁🎧
• Dead Voices // Katherine Arden 💞🎧
• Kingdom of the Cursed // Kerri Maniscalco 💞🎧
• The Ghost Tree // Christina Henry ✨💞🎧

• Tunnel of Bones & Bridge of Souls // V.E. Schwab 💞🎧
• Schrader’s Chord // Scott Leeds ✨💞🎧
• We Need to Do Something // Max Booth III 🤷‍♀️

• Tangling With Trolls // Hazel Mack 💞
• Asylum of Shadows // Stephanie Ellis 🤷‍♀️

• Plastic Monsters // Daniel J. Volpe 💞

• nothing this month!

• Soul of a Witch // Harley Laroux 💞
• Black Sheep // Rachel Harrison ✨💞🎧
• Camp Damascus // Chuck Tingle ✨💞🎧

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And now, for some of my favorite recent hauls:

At the start of the month, I went to Barnes & Noble and splurged on a stack of books on sale, so that’s where most of these came from! I didn’t even begin to list the freebies I got from Stuff Your Kindle day. 💀 We’d be here a long time, because I think I ended up with 30-35 freebies!

• Frankenstein // Mary Shelley, illustrated by William O’Connor (print)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper // Stephen Graham Jones (print)
• Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories // Agustina Bazterrica (print)
• Dark Harvest // Norman Partridge (print)
• In the Miso Soup // Ryo Murakami (print)
• Slaying the Vampire Conqueror // Carissa Broadbent (print)
• Grim Portraits // Kealan Patrick Burke (print)
• A Taste of Darkness // Amy McCaw & Maria Kuzniar (print)
• Cold, Black, & Infinite // Todd Keisling (ebook)

This was a huge month for review copy hauling! I don’t remember the last time I received this many review copies in the mail in one month, plus I got a ton of exciting eARCs. Thank you to all of the publishers!

• Red Rabbit // Alex Grecian (finished review copy)
• Bloom // Delilah S. Dawson (print ARC)
• The Invisible World // Nora Fussner (print ARC)
• Fall of Ruin & Wrath // Jennifer L. Armentrout (finished review copy)
• The Grimmer // Naben Ruthnum (finished review copy)
• What Became of Magic // Paige Crutcher (finished review copy)
• Queens of Moirai // Rhiannon Hardgardon (finished review copy)
• Knock Knock, Open Wide // Neil Sharpson (finished review copy)
• The Dead Take the A Train // Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey (finished review copy)

• Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice // Elle Cosimano (eARC)
• The Reformatory // Tananarive Due (eARC)
• Your Shadow Half Remains // Sunny Moraine (eARC)
• Yumi and the Nightmare Painter // Brandon Sanderson (eARC)
• That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon // Kimberly Lemming (eARC)
• Diavola // Jennifer Marie Thorne (eARC)
• My Throat An Open Grave // Tori Bovalino (eARC)
• Deliver Me // Elle Nash (eARC)

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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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