October ’19 wrap up
Good morning bookworms! It’s time for the October wrap-up!
During October I read 13 books – which is an appropriately spooky number!! I also finally read the remainder of the Bloodlines series, and I think I loved it more than Vampire Academy… I just, love Sydrian so much!! ? (Also, I don’t know if “Sydrian” is a thing, but I’m making it a thing…)
|
Book |
Author |
Series |
Format |
Rating (/5) |
Cover |
| The Summer Palace | C. S. Pacat | Captive Prince 3.5 | Paperback |
4.5 |
 |
| Going Off Script | Jen Wilde | Hardcover |
4 |
 |
|
| A Study in Charlotte | Brittany Cavallaro | Charlotte Holmes #1 | Paperback |
4 |
 |
| Vicious | V. E. Schwab | Villains #1 | Paperback |
4 |
 |
| Awk-Weird | Avery Flynn | Ice Knights #2 | eBooks |
4 |
 |
| American Royals | Katharine McGee | American Royals #1 | Paperback |
4.5 |
 |
| The Golden Lily | Richelle Mead | Bloodlines #2 | Paperback |
4 |
 |
| The Indigo Spell | Richelle Mead | Bloodlines #3 | Paperback | 4 |  |
| Adrian’s Lost Chapter | Richelle Mead | Bloodlines #0.5 | eBook | 3 | |
| The Fiery Heart | Richelle Mead | Bloodlines #4 | Paperback | 4.5 |  |
| Silver Shadows | Richelle Mead | Bloodlines #5 | Paperback | 4.5 |  |
| The Ruby Circle | Richelle Mead | Bloodlines #6 | Paperback | 4 |  |
| I Hate You | Isla Madden-Mills | eBook | 3.5 |  |
I think my favourite book for the month was actually American Royals by Katharine McGee. I was such a sucker for the drama and the heartache, and SO MANY TROPES. I can’t believe the sequel is a year away… fingers crossed there’s 20 more books to come!!
Also… I didn’t write ANY book reviews during October… so now I have a million to catch up on!!
*cough* I’m actually a little bit over TBRs at the moment… again. I think after my complete disaster of a month during October I’m just going to go back to my mood reader ways and not come up with anything!!
Look, I’m going to own this. I went hardcore at the start of the month… then I calmed down about 1/3 of the way in. And then I died. (Well, not DEAD dead… just really sick.) But, you know, it was a good run while it lasted!! I did pick up again towards the end though…
However, in case you haven’t seen them, these were my four Bookending Autumn prompts that I hosted!!
Study Group
Spicy Pumpkin Latte Book tag
The Lion, the Witch and the Low Wardrobe Choices
FALL in Love *
* Classic me… I totally forgot the name of the prompt when I was making banners so only called it Fall in Love…?!
So, as I’ve mentioned about 100 times now, during October I was one of the hosts for Bookending Autumn. And so many of you supported me in this – it was so beautiful!! So, these are all the people who did my prompts and tagged me in them:
Study Group
The Caffeinated Reader | Sometimes Leelynn Reads | Eternity Books
Spicy Pumpkin Latte tag
Sometimes Leelynn Reads | Laurie’s Bookshelf | Feed the Crime | Lala’s Book Reviews | Cuppa Clo | A Novel Idea | Jamsu Dreams | The Writerly Way | Brewing Colour | Novel Lives | Eternity Books
The Lion, the Witch and the Low Wardrobe Choices
FALLing in love
The Caffeinated Reader | Sometimes Leelynn Reads | DB’s Guide to the Galaxy | Fictionally Sam | Books and Dachshunds | A Novel Idea | Library of March | Jamsu Dreams | Sapphistication
I am far behind on blog-hopping again (so you’ll see some October faves in November), however, there were some other pretty amazing posts out there this month that I did see!! These are some of my faves that I saw:
- Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane books wrote the most gorgeous post about ‘making it’ as a book blogger. And I am here for all the feels it gave me!!
- In a really similar vein to this, Meaghan @ The Words Gremlin wrote a gorgeous post on how to support book bloggers. She has even broken it down into free and paid support!!
October was a weird month… it started off very busy (which wasn’t a surprise), but then as I got a chest infection, traveled for work, and got sicker, it became very slow. The whole last 10 days of the month I spent a lot of time sleeping, napping and binge watching tv, as books were hard to concentrate on at times.
With all that in mind, I watched a LOT of Miraculous. In fact, I rewatched it from the start and am now caught up to the rest of the world (we don’t really get it in Australia unless you have cable) and so that makes me a little bit happy. Except I can’t binge watch any more because I’m back to waiting for weekly episodes again!! I also watched a lot of Critical Role (campaign 2) and caught up on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina!
What did you do in October?
16 Comments
Kay | Hammock of Books
I really want to read Going off Script and American Royals–so glad you enjoyed 🙂
Meeghan reads
I liked Going Off Script (I really love that it’s in the same universe as her other books and there are character crossovers!!) and I was surprised how much I loved American Royals!! I hope you enjoy both when you get to them!!
thebookcorps
Great wrap up! So glad that you loved the Summer Palace! Hope you have a great November ?
Meeghan reads
Thank you!! Yeah, I’m a huge fan of Pacat – and she’s one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Sending you wishes for an awesome November too!!
evelynreads1
Looks like you enjoyed all your reads! Hopefully November is just as good!
(www.evelynreads.com)
Meeghan reads
Thabjs Evelyn!! Yeah, it was a good reading month.
Rukky @ Eternity Books
What a great month Meegs!! I also hope you’re feeling much better ❤ You had such a great reading month, and I absolutely loved doing the Study Group and Spicy Pumpkin Latte tags!! I’m also super glad that you enjoyed Vicious, and I think I’m going to check out American Royals, because so many people have raved about it as well and I’m super curious now.
Anyways, I hope you have an awesome November ❤
Meeghan reads
Thanks Rukky!! Sending you amazing November vibes – I hope you have a lovely month and read lots of great books!! ?
Veronika @ Wordy and Whimsical
I’m super-glad to see that you rated A Study in Charlotte 4 stars – I’m planning to binge the series one of these days, so it’s good the hear the first book is enjoyable. Also, happy you’ve enjoyed the Bloodlines series – I used to be a massive fan of them. 🙂 I should go back for a reread – but VA first. I really liked The Summer Palace too! Hope you’re feeling better and that your November will be amazing! 🙂
Meeghan reads
Thank you, love!! I also ordered the other 3 books in the Charlotte Holmes series, so I plan on binge reading them when they arrive!!
emmareadstoomuch
ooh i love the way you sort your wrap ups. also i just (re)started my vampire academy reread, and this is motivating me to do bloodlines after! i read the first few books in the series but then kind of…forgot i was reading them. whoops.
three cheers for mood reading!! i am the worst at sticking to a tbr so i just…don’t do it.
Meeghan reads
Oooh!! VA was so good!! I hope you enjoy your reread!! And yes, I HIGHLY recommend reading the Bloodlines series!! I think I’m going to do a review post of the series, but spoiler free… I’m just trying to figure out what to put in it!! ?
Beware Of The Reader
Meeghan I really hope that November will be better health wise! And thirteen books that’s not bad at all!
Meeghan reads
Thanks Sophie!! 13 was pretty good!! I definitely got through a lot in the last week when I was stating to feel better!! ?
Leelynn @ Sometimes Leelynn Reads
Ahh this is so weird! I only got tagged in this today! Thank you for hosting those awesome prompts and I’m so glad I was able to participate <3 I had a blast <3 and you are an amazing host!
meeghan
Oh my gosh!! I wonder why it took so long to come through!! ??