Hello everyone! My life was kind of crazy the past two months, and I apologize for being gone for so long. Things have finally settled down for me a bit, so hopefully I will be updating the blog on a more regular basis now. I am going to do a combination wrap-up post for both September and October, especially since I only read three books in October.

I read a total of 8 books in September and 3 books in October. I will talk more about why my count was so low in October in my Getting Personal section below.

I’m going to try to do things slightly differently this year. I am going to keep y’all updated on how my various book challenges are going in each of my monthly wrap-ups.

Let’s get into it!

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Books I Read:

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert (4 Stars) ~ print

~Reading Challenges: none

The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare (4 Stars) ~ audio

~Reading Challenges: none

The Orphan of Cemetery Hill by Hester Fox (4.5 Stars) (REVIEW) ~ e-book

~Reading Challenges: none

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (4 Stars) ~ audio

~Reading Challenges: When Are You Reading? Challenge (1700-1799)

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (5 Stars) ~ audio

~Reading Challenges: none

Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan (3 Stars) ~ audio

~Reading Challenges: none

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray (4 Stars) ~ audio

~Reading Challenges: none

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (4 Stars) ~ audio

~Reading Challenges: PopSugar Challenge (Read a banned books during Banned Books Week)

Meet Cute Club by Jack Harbon (3 Stars) ~ e-book

~Reading Challenges: PopSugar Challenge (A book that has a book on the cover)

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters (4.5 Stars) ~ e-book

~Reading Challenges: none

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (4 Stars) ~ audio

~Reading Challenges: PopSugar Challenge (A book published in the 20th Century); A to Z Challenge (V)

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Format: ……………………………………………..Reading Challenges:

Physical Books: 1                                    PopSugar Challenge: 50/50

E-Books: 3                                                Read Harder Challenge: 15/24

Audiobooks: 7                                        When Are You Reading?: 10/12

Non-fiction: 2                                          Modern Mrs. Darcy: 9/10

.                                                                  On the Cover: 10/10

.                                                                  Reading Rainbow: 11/12

.                                                                  Little Inklings Challenge: 39/40

.                                                                  A to Z Challenge: 22/26

.                                                                  Goodreads Challenge: 92/65

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Things I Posted:

Book Review: The Orphan of Cemetery Hill

I am planning to start posting more regularly again!

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Getting Personal:

So much has happened in the past two months. The biggest news is that we moved from Tennessee to Texas! We are now close to my family, which we are very excited about. We wanted my daughter to grow up close to her grandparents and aunts and cousins. We have been in our house for about two weeks now, and it is finally starting to really feel like ours. Needless to say, packing up our old house, moving across the country and settling into our new house has taken up all of my time. This is largely why I have been so absent here on the blog.

My daughter started in-person pre-school this week. This is opening up a lot more free time for me, which I hope to fill with things like updating this blog more often.

Also, I decided to withdraw from my graduate program. I realized that I did not want to be a school librarian, but rather a public librarian. The program I was in was solely focused on school librarianship, and I did not feel that I was getting the training and information I would need for my future career. I am currently looking for library positions that do not require a masters degree until I am able to potentially find a new masters program. With any luck, I will be working again soon.

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My November TBR Pile:

Ember Queen by Laura Sebastian

Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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How many books did you read this month? Have you read any of the books I read? Are you participating in any reading challenges? What about the books on my TBR for November? Let me know down in the comments! 

Interested in my last wrap-up? Check it out here!

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Love and happy reading,