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Books Read:
Gatecrasher
2 in the Hat
Running from the Devil
Infinite Days
Crepe Makers’ Bond
Majix: Notes from a Serious Teen Witch
Love Remains
Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker
Click here to check out the reviews on all of these books

Pages Read:
2280

Bookmarks Given:
1 bookmark: 0
2 bookmarks: 1
3 bookmarks: 1
4 bookmarks: 3
5 bookmarks 3

Favorite Book:
I would have to say this is a tough decision for me – I had a couple of books that I really liked, but I’ll have to give this month’s award to Running from the Devil.  It was a great, great read!

Least Favorite Book:
My least favorite book was Gatecrasher. I really loved the Sophie Kinsella books and think I had too many expectations for this.

Goals for August:
Honestly, I have nothing major in the pipeline for August. I have a few books on NetGalley that I need to get through, a couple that just came out this week. I want to make sure I get on a better schedule with them and get to them before they are released. I also have some books coming to me from the Crazy Book Tours. I have found a lot of new bookish websites lately. A post on this is in the pipeline!

Now, I did put a book in the grave yard this month, which I hate to do. I started Stephen King’s Duma Key. I think I was just intimidated by the length of it. It’s like a million pages long. LOL Not really, but I was also concerned about getting some of my galley’s done in time and just had a lot on my mind. I heard if I keep at it, it will pick up, I just couldn’t get into it.

Oh, I did finish my one challenge I am taking part in this year. The Crepe Makers’ Bond put me at 25 YA Books for the year so far. I was more of Chick Lit girl last year and wanted to branch out. I thought 25 would be tough. I guess I underestimated myself. Not sure if I can double it or not though by the end of the year.

Aside from reading, I kind of had a big month, with personal accomplishments. I started writing in May and actually finished up the first draft of my book in July. I am super excited about it, although I know I still have a lot of work to do on it. I am going to go back through and add quite a bit of scenes and spice it up a little. I am trying not to get TOO excited, because I know how hard it is to get a book published, but I am just happy to say that I sat down, started writing and did it!

What did you guys do this month??

If you’ve ever seen Wedding Crashers, the part where Will Ferrell has turned into a funeral crasher, well that’s the life of Fleur. Fleur’s ultimate goal is to get the big bucks. To do that, she scours funerals, trying to find a widower who can support her life. She weasels her way in, gains their trust and runs of with their trust, money that is.

But this time, her daughter Zara has gotten involved and this may be her final go round.

I picked up this book because I loved every Sophie Kinsella book and read them all in a very short period of time. Well, you all know that Sophie Kinsella is actually Madeeline Wickham. Unfortunately, I liked the books better when Sophie wrote them.

This book just didn’t do it for me. I thought it was extremely predictable, I didn’t really like the characters and I caught myself skimming for something to catch my attention quite a bit. There was one part of the book, in the last third, that I thought gave it hope, but it wasn’t enough to rectify it.

I will still probably BookMooch other Wickham books (that’s where I got this one), with high hopes that this was just a fluke. I only give Gatecrasher 2 bookmarks.