Seeing as it is almost halfway through September already and I haven’t posted on my blog in a month, it is more than obvious that this post is WAY overdue. But seeing as I am a huge fan of the phrase “better late than never”, this post is finally happening despite how late it is.

Before we get into the bulk of this post, let me back track to the beginning of the summer and the very first post that I published here on my blog. If you would like to check out that post, you can click here but, essentially I began my book blog with a post about my summer reading goals and what I wanted to accomplish this summer before I started grad school.

For the summer I set two goals for myself, one of which I automatically achieved by posting my first post. The two goals were:

1. Start a book blog (which obviously has happened since this and 15 other blogposts exist on my blog )
2. Read 30 books

Unfortunately I wasn’t not able to read 30 books this summer BUT I managed to read 20 books (5 of them were graphic novels) which I think is pretty darn good. Of course like any bookworm, I would have loved to have been able to read 30 books but the fact that I read 20 is still impressive to me.

I am going to break down the reading that I did this summer into each month that way this is also like a cumulative monthly wrap-up which, in my book, is like killing two birds or in this case multiple birds with one stone as I had planned on doing monthly wrap-ups this summer but obviously those did not happen either lol. (There will be a sneak peek of the first book I read in September because my summer “officially”ended the first week in September when I started grad school)
Also, along with each book will be what I rated them out of five stars.

JUNE (there are only 2 books because my summer “officially” started in mid-June)
All Fall Down by Ally Carter – 4/5 stars
Of Poseidon by Anna Banks – 3.5/5 stars

JULY
Song of Summer by Laura Lee Anderson – 4.5 stars
Bad Reputation by K.B. Nelson – 3.5/5 stars
Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion by Carolyn Keene – 3/5 stars
Castle Hill by Samantha Young – 5/5 stars
Heart and Sole by Miranda Liasson – 4/5 stars
Saga Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples – 4.5/5 stars
Saga Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples – 4.5/5 stars
Amulet Vol. 1 by Kazu Kibuishi – 3/5 stars
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson – 5/5 stars
Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano – 5/5 stars

AUGUST
This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki – 3.5/5 stars
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren – 3.5/5 stars
Beautiful Bitch by Christina Lauren – 4/5 stars
Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren – 4/5 stars
Nearly Found by Elle Cosimano – 5/5 stars
Beautiful Bombshell by Christina Lauren – 4/5 stars
Beautiful Player by Christina Lauren – 4.5/5 stars

SEPTEMBER (mini preview)
Beautiful Beginning by Christina Lauren – 4.5/5 stars

Total # of books: 20
Total # of pages: approx. 5,012

Looking at those stats, I am more than impressed with myself even if I didn’t reach my goal of 30 books. In terms of reviews for these books, I would love to be able to provide a review for all of them (another thing I was hoping to do this summer) but that is just unrealistic with the amount of work I have for grad school, my job, and all the wonderful things that will be happening on my blog in the next few months.

Instead, I invite anyone to comment down below if you liked any of these books, have read any of them, or would like to hear my thoughts on any of them.

Until next time… Happy Reading 🙂