ARC August: A Recap

Well, August is over. And, strangely, I'm actually excited for the fall. Perhaps part of the reason is that I'm no longer feeling quite as daunted by the books I need to read in September.

ARCs read:  
Salt & Storm by Kendall Kulper (to be published September 23, 2014)

Firebug by Lish McBride (to be published September 23, 2014)

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (to be published September 30, 2014)

My goal was to read three ARCs, and so I'm satisfied with the progress I made. I also participated in one #ARCAugust chat, which was a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll be able to participate in more next year!

I read a total of eight books this past month, so ideally I should have been able to alternate between ARCs and finished copies for a total of four ARCs read. But oh well. I have one book left that is being published in September (Egg and Spoon by Gregory Macguire) and one in early October (The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters), but reading two review books in September is more than do-able. Much better than still having five ARCs still to read.

Thanks again to Octavia of Read.Sleep.Repeat for hosting! This challenge was definitely a great way to help ease my anxiety over review books!

I hope everyone else who participated is satisfied with their results. Let me know how you fared this past month!

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ARC August Sign-Up

I don't request many ARCs, so for the most part I don't even consider participating in any ARC reading events. Within the past few months, however, I was a little less restrained with my ARC requests, and I've reached the point where this is the most amount of unread ARCs I've had at one time...ever.

Luckily, I found out about the ARC August event hosted by Octavia of Read.Sleep.Repeat and decided this challenge - and some public accountability for ARC reading - was just what I needed. 

I've compiled a list of all my unread ARCs and potential reading choices over this month.

May ARC:

Plus One by Elizabeth Fama

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