August 2021 book haul

Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the August 2021 book haul!! A monthly post where I usually shame myself for never achieving my goal of buying less than I read, or sticking to my buying goal. Except apparently I am achieving these goals now? At least for July and now August anyway!!

To be honest, lockdown is possibly helping me achieve my purchasing goals here, but it’s also partly because I’ve been working super long hours this month. But, I also changed jobs!! Fingers crossed that means I have a bit of extra time up my sleeve for blogging!! (And also catching up on blog-hopping… but let’s not go there right now… ?)

In case you aren’t aware (which, fair, because I never made an announcement post, although I do mention this every month) my goal for each month is to only purchase 7 books, split between purchased books and books from book boxes. So, 7 paid books in total. But also I need to read more books than I collect each month, including review books (which I did fail in August…). So it’s kind of a 2-part goal.

So, let’s go see the five books I hauled in August!!

August 2021 book haul

Book haul categories are as follows:

• subscription boxes
• book purchases (book mail, in-store and ebook*)
• review copies (book mail, digital and gifts)

* Not counting Kindle Unlimited

I subscribe to three monthly boxes: OwlCrate (which I sometimes skip and sometimes swap to OwlCrate Jr), FairyLoot and the book-only subscription for Illumicrate. I also subscribe to the quarterly book-only option for LitJoy. Plus I sometimes buy the special edition books they put out, but only if I loved the series, or I got the special edition of book 1 as part of the monthly box.

So, here is where I’m up to as at the end of August:

• ? = arrived in a previous month
• ✅ = arrived this month
• ? = in transit
• ➡️ = skipped
• ?️ = parked (not out yet)
• ❎ = did not switch to
• ❌ = confirmed that it was lost to the mail gremlins (but thankfully refunded)

So, uh…. I might have totally forgotten to skip book boxes for August. Whoops?! But also, my FairyLoot copy of Gods and Monsters is, uh, lost somewhere. And I’m just (impatiently) waiting for it to arrive…

I SIS get my July box for FairyLoot, which I totally forgot about though. It was Six Crimson Cranes (⚔️❤️?‍♀️??) by Elizabeth Lim, and the FL copy is STUNNING. Honestly, it’s one of my favourite editions of a book box book, ever.

 

 

 

 

 

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I also got my OwlCrate copy of Wings of Shadow (⚔️❤️?️‍??‍♀️??) by Nicki Pau Preto!! Wings of Shadow is book THREE in the Crown of Feathers series.

Photo credit to OwlCrate for this. My copy is in a big pile somewhere…

So, here we are, new books for August!!

Yep, I essentially got one book in August, and it was a gift. It was another big month for books ?

And finally, TWO review copies!! One from a publishing house, and one from an author, which I am in the middle of reading, but also screaming my lungs out every few pages…

What was in your August 2021 book haul??