Books Read – August 2022
NOTE: Title links go to my reviews, several of which are from previous years.
- Crystal Gardens (Amanda Quick) – reread
- The Mystery Woman (Amanda Quick) – reread
- Otherwise Engaged (Amanda Quick) – reread
- The Paid Companion (Amanda Quick) – reread
- Slightly Shady (Amanda Quick) – reread
- Don’t Look Back (Amanda Quick) – note – not read before according to GR
- Late for the Wedding (Amanda Quick) – note – not read before according to GR
- Garden of Lies (Amanda Quick) – reread
- The Belle of Belgrave Square (Mimi Matthews) – ARC
- Touchstones (Stephanie Burgis)
- Arcadia (Tom Stoppard) – play
- Magic Lost, Trouble Found (Lisa Shearin)
- Destination Unknown (Agatha Christie) – reread
- Mistress of Birds (Celia Lake)
- Over Sea, Under Stone (Susan Cooper) – reread
- The River Knows (Amanda Quick) – reread)
- The Blue Castle (L. M. Montgomery) – reread
- With This Ring (Amanda Quick) – reread
- Ravished (Amanda Quick)
- The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) – reread
- Mischief (Amanda Quick)
- Witchful Thinking (Celestine Martin)
Challenges
These are the books I read for various challenges, but I have not written or posted all the reviews yet, so they won’t all show up on my 2022 Challenges tracking page. All title links go to my reviews.
Goodreads Challenge 2022: 22 books in August (all the books listed above.) I am 37 books ahead of schedule.
22 in 2022: 0 books this month. I’m badly behind on this personal challenge.
Audiobook Challenge 2022: 0 books in August. I’ve been steadily working my way through Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle, but I haven’t finished it yet.
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2022: 5 books this month (Don’t Look Back; Late for the Wedding; Arcadia; Ravished; Mischief)
COYER Summer 2022: 22 books in August (all titles read this month count toward this challenge)
Library Love 2022: 0 books this month
Read Christie 2022: 1 book (Destination Unknown). I am also reading an early copy of Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, but I haven’t finished it yet.
August 2022 Readathin: See my challenge wrap-up post.
Tanya @ Girl Plus Books
How fun to binge so many Amanda Quick books throughout the month!
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Lark_Bookwyrm
It was quite a binge! I think I’m about ready to move on, though. I might do a Christie binge next; I’m not sure.
Wendy
Nice wrap-up. You had a great month of reading. I have The Belle of Belgrave Square but haven’t got to it yet.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I hope you enjoy it! It’s one of my favorite books of the month, and may end up in the top 10 for the year.
Anne+-+Books+of+My+Heart
You managed a LOT of reading!
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I did get in quite a bit, but the Amanda Quick books go pretty quickly (pun not intended), especially when they are rereads.
Lory+@+Entering+the+Enchanted+Castle
Over Sea, Under Stone is a perfect August book, isn’t it?
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Lark_Bookwyrm
It really is! It’s too bad we won’t be reading The Grey King in October, though; that would also be perfect timing.
Katherine
Nice binge on the Amanda Quick books! I have so many books of hers that I want to read that I could use a binge. Destination Unknown isn’t one of my favorite Christie books but it’s one I need to reread because I don’t remember much about it. Happy September!
Ann
One of these day I’m going to has to re-read The Dark is Rising series.
Have a great September reading month.
My wrap up:
https://snapdragon0blog.wordpress.com/2022/09/04/august-wrap-up-2022/
Lark_Bookwyrm
I love the series, and hadn’t reread it since my child grew up, so the read-along came along at a good time!
La La in the Library
I went to Goodreads, I sent you a friend request while I was there, and added Arcadia. It sounds interesting and Hoopla has the audiobook. 🎧
You are doing fabulously with your Goodreads, backlist, and COYER challenges! 🏅
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I’m delighted to friend you on Goodreads! And enjoy Arcadia. I have to say, it really helps to read the stage directions, especially in the second act where the “past” and “present” scenes are occuring simultaneously. So if the audiobook doesn’t do so, I would recommend getting a copy of the script so you can follow along.