August Checkpoint! #TBRYear10

Greetings, TBR Pile Challengers! 

Y’all! We have almost 150 posts linked-up for this challenge! How incredible is that?

I hear summer is coming to a close; students and teachers are returning to school, and many are eagerly awaiting the autumn season. Count me in as one of those many! It’s been a relatively mild summer for this area, but “mild” here is still very, very hot. I’m an autumn kind of person (and I’ve become a winter person since moving to the American Southwest), so I eagerly await the post-September changes.

My Progress: 9 of 12 Completed

In this last month, I finally got caught up with reviews, bringing my total challenge books read to 9 and my total reviewed to 8. I hope to get some thoughts posted for Sons and Lovers soon, so that I can officially be ahead of pace with 9 books in 8 months. That will help with my overall goal of completing 14 out of 12 books for this challenge. I think my next challenge book will be With Billie by Julia Blackburn, which is a biography of the LEGENDARY Billie Holiday. I’m really looking forward to that one!

Books Read:

1. The Poppy War (2018) by R.F. Kuang (Chinese Historical Fantasy) (Completed 1/10/23)
2. Pachinko (2017) by Min Jin Lee (Korean-American Lit Fic) (Completed 2/12/23)
3. Look (2016) by Solmaz Sharif (Poetry/Iranian-American) (Completed 3/10/23)
4. Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse (Philosophical Novel) (Completed 4/22/23)
5. North and South (1854) by Elizabeth Gaskell (British Lit Fic) (Completed 6/19/23)
6. The Power of Now (1997) by Ekhart Tolle (NonFiction/Spirituality) (Completed 6/30/23)
7. Why I Write (1946) by George Orwell (Craft/Memoir) (Completed 7/21/23)
8. Patron Saints of Nothing (2019) by Randy Ribay (YA/Filipino-American) (Completed 07/28/23)
9. Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence (Classics/British Fiction) (Completed 08/11/23)

How are you doing?

Below, you’re going to find the infamous Mr. Linky widget. If you read and review any challenge books this month, please link-up on the widget below. This Mr. Linky will be re-posted every month so that we can compile a large list of all that we’re reading and reviewing together this year. Each review that is linked-up on this widget throughout the year may also earn you entries into future related giveaways, so don’t forget to keep this updated!

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