Bookish Thursday - Setting Up for August Reading

My reading for the past few months has been all over everywhere. Thus, I have a HUGE stack of books piling up on my shelves - some from the library and some are mine.

Therefore I am trying to get 'organized' again with my reading. There are TONS of books on my shelves that I need to get to. Not to mention books I'm getting from the library. So here is what I am anticipating for August...

Yep...a lot of reading to get through.

However, I know, based on my past reading, a few of these I will start and abandon because they don't suit me at all. I just finished up The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake.

Olivie Blake has been 'all the thing' since The Atlas Six came out. I read the book. It was ok, not great, but ok. I just finished up book two in the series and I was so bored throughout the whole thing. However, I do own the first two books and book three will be out in January, 2024. So I figure I will get it and slog through it. I'm really not expecting much.

Not that Blake's writing is bad in any way. It's just not for me. I've returned a couple of her other books without reading them because I'm just not a fan. That's allowed. Not every writer, regardless of how popular, is for everyone.

The five books laying horizontally are my own books, not library books. Three of them are nonfiction and I have been slowly going through them. The other two are fiction, one of which I've started already. 

The above two books are my books and are part of series. I have asked for them on audio so I can listen to them at work. I figure I can get through 4-5 hours of listening during a day at work. The Pierce Brown series I really, really need to plow through as book 6 will be arriving at my house in a couple of days and I would like to be caught up by the end of the year and finished with the six book series. 

I need to get the third book in the Fonda Lee series (and repurchase book one - a reminder not to loan out books to some people). 

The stack of library books are from browsing the shelves or seeing them recommended during a YouTube video. I know the Nora Roberts will be a quick read, so that will knock the stack down some. 

I also need to be using my Kindle more. I can't even begin to calculate the number of books I have to read on it. So I may set up something like 'read on the porch with the Kindle' or something like that. I just download a Kelley Armstrong novella, so maybe that will make me pick up the Kindle more. 

Anyway, an enormous pile, but exciting at the same time. Let the reading begin!