I know the calnedar says fall, bt it was 95 degrees here today and I was drenched in sweat while I started the long proess of winterizing the yard. I even made chilid for dinner, which was a mistake, because 95 degrees on September 30th! I would like fall weather to go with the fall calendar, please.

In other news, the nominations for the Cybils open up tomorrow! I’m the Middle Grade Ficition chair (yay!), so make sure my panel and I have some bood books to read, pelase! (The link to the nominations will be here!)

As for reading, my favorite this month was:

I adore Ben Hatke’s work, ad this is no different.

And the rest:

Adult Fiction:

The Secret Life of Albert Entwhistle
Fourth Wing (audio book)
Playing the Witch Card
Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up (audio book)
When in Rome (audio book)

YA:

Midnight at the Houdini (audio book)
Thieves’ Gambit

Middle Grade:

Hazel Hill is Gonna Win This One

What was your favorite this month?

There’s nothing like a good vacation and then some Cybils reading to kick up your monthly numbers! My favorite this month:

When there’s a new Murderbot novel, it will always be my favorite. I love the series. As for the rest:

Graphic Novel:

Buzzing
Sunshine

Middle Grade:

Dad’s Girlfriend and Other Anxieties
The First Magnificent Summer
Race for the Ruby Turtle
Simon Sort of Says
Barely Floating (audiobook)
Lasagna Means I Love You
Morning Sun in Wuhan

Adult Fiction:

The Unhoneymooners
Business or Pleasure (audiobook)

Non-Fiction:

War and the American Difference
All In (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

When I yped all this up, I was legitimately suprised how much erading I’d done this month. Go me! My favorite, though, and one I still think about:

Who knew a book about an older woman and a octopus could be so good? So glad I finally read it!

As for the rest:

Middle Grade Fiction:

My Not-So-Great French Escape
Dear Mothman
102 Days of Lying About Lauren

Adult Fiction: 

Kiss Her Once for Me (audiobook)
One Italian Summer (audiobook)
The Dead Romantics (audiobook)
A Gathering of Shadows (reread)
A Conjuring of Light (reread)
The Fragile Threads of Power

Non-Fiction:

The Art Thief (audiobook)
Beyond the Story

Whaat was your favorite this month?

I had a very adult-fiction-heavy month, which is all fine and good; it’s where I’m reading right now! I also felt like i read more, but I guess I didn’t! Oh, well. My favorite this month was this one:

It was a very fun, summery book,and perfect for the long hot days of June.

As for the rest:

YA:

Unnecessary Drama (audiobook)

Middle Grade:

The Many Fortunes of Maya
Harriet Spies

Adult Fiction:

Big Gay Wedding (audiobook)
The Guncle
A Darker Shade of Magic (reread)
Family Lore (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

It really is funny how life ebbs and flows. This month I listened to SIX audiobooks, but only read four print books, and one of those was a graphic novel! Times and seasons indeed.

My favorite this month:

It was so much fun to listen to! As for the rest:

Non-Fiction:

Walking with Sam
Soil (audiobook)

Adult Fiction:

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (audiobook)
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Wolfsong

Graphic Novel:

School Trip

YA Fiction:

Harvest House (audiobook)
Rubi Ramos’s Recipe for Success (audiobook)
The Night in Question (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

It’s been a good reading month: a lot of variety, and a good balance between audio and in-print reading. And some really good books, too! It was hard to pick my favorite. But I think Ihave to go with:

The characters were delightful, there was some weight to it, and it was a solid, fun romance. Perfect for summertime..

As for the rest:

Adult fiction:

Vicious
The Lonely Hearts Book Club (audiobook)
The Seven Year Slip
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (audiobook)

Young Adult:

Ander & Santi Were Here (audiobook)
Forget Me Not (audiobook)
Don’t Call Me a Hurricane

Non-Fiction

The Longest Way Home

Graphic Novel

A First Time for Everything

What was your favorite this month?

My reaading habis have changed a LOT. I read 11 books this month, and the majority (most of them!) were audiobooks. I don’t know what has changed that I can plow through them so fast, but I’m not sure I care. Reading is reading no matter what form! That said, my fabvoire this month was one I actually read.

What do you do when it’s only March and you know you’ve read at least three books that will make your top 10 for the year?

As for the rest:

YA:

The Black Flamingo (audiobook)
Pet (audiobook)

Middle Grade:

Amari and the Night Brothers
Amari and the Great Game

Adult Fiction:

Daisy Jones and the Six (audiobook)
Nora Goes Off Script (audiobook)

Graphic Novel:

The Moth Keeper

Non-Fiction

The Sum of Us (audiobook)
B.F. F. (audiobook)
Poverty, by America (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

It’s been a good reading month. It feels so good to be able to say that. My favorite:

It’s hard to be a good Emily Henry book. As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

The Inheritance of Orquidia Divina (audiobook)

Non-Fiction:

Lost & Found (audiobook)

Middle Reader:

Figure it Out, Henri Weldon
Freewater

Young Adult:

Blood Debts (audiobook)
The Stolen Heir
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

Graphic Novel:

Lost in Taiwan
The Faint of Heart
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

What was your favorite this month?

What do you do, if the first book you finished this year is not just your favorite of the month, but you know will be on your top 10 of the year? it’s a high standard to live up to.

Even so, this will absolutely be one of my favorites of the year:

As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

Now Is Not the Time to Panic (audiobook)
Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone (audiobook)
The Flatshare

Young Auldt:

Saint
Seraphina (reread)
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (audiobook)

Non-Fiction

My Hygge Home (audiobook)
Spare (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

As per usual, I’ll round up the whole year tomorrow. As for December… It was another graphic novel-heavy month, but I didn’t mind. I was buy at work,a nd having a graphic novel to come home to was perfect. That said, my favorite wasn’t one

Nettle & Bone

I picked it up because it made a friend’s best-of list this year, and I was not disappointed.

As for the rest:

Non-fiction:

Beyond the Wand (audiobook)

Young Adult:

Lightlark (audiobook)
The Shepherd’s Crown (reread)

Graphic Novels:

Captain America: The Ghost Army
Clementine
Victory for Ukraine
Magical Boy
Unretouchable
Ducks
The Wolf Suit
Fibbed
A Tale as Tall as Jacob
The Doors to Nowhere
Just Roll With it
Cat’s Cradle
The Greatest Thing
Messy Roots
AlteZachen
Adora and the Distance
Numb to This
The Golden Hour
Enemies
The Woman in the Woods
Miss Quinces
Smaller Sister
Wingbearer
PlayLike a Girl
Victory. Stand!
Tiny Dancer
Slip

Stay tuned tomorrow for my best-of-the-year!