August Wrap-Up: We love a post with a schedule and a format

Why hello, everybody. (Feel free to read in the Michael Scott voice I was hearing as I typed it, although I’m not sure if that’s a real quote. Honestly might be from the bloopers. #Truefan.)

It’s been a few weeks, but at this point that’s par for the course on this blog so I’m going to go ahead and not apologize. That’s right! I won’t repent. Not an ounce of regret in me. Fight me on it.

August was a weird month, but it’s also an over month that is no longer happening and that means it’s time to wrap it up. So. Here is me doing that.

Let’s get into it.

I don’t have even a little bit of an idea of a memory of what these were, so this should be interesting.

AUGUST GOALS

READ MORE ✗

POST ON BOOKSTAGRAM ✓

ENJOY THE LAST OF YOUR SUMMER ✓✓

READ AT LEAST ONE CLASSIC ✓

TIME WITH FRIENDS ✓✓✓

BLOG BETTER ✗

WRITE AT LEAST ONE REVIEW ✓✓✓✓✓

FOCUS ON SCHOOL ✓

APPLY TO INTERNSHIPS?? ✗ish

BE HAPPIER!!! ✓

Oof. You can really tell I was worried about my own mental health with these easy-ass goals.

Goals for September

Read at least 8 books

Post at least twice on bookstagram

Blog post at least twice

Focus on school

Apply to jobs and internships

Read at least one classic

Stop being so hard on yourself, loser!!

It is school time!!! Gang, it is with a lightened heart and a joyous soul that I must inform you…we are truly back on our bullsh*t.

We are still in the early days of basic discomfort and strangeness in new classes and also ya girl needs to Get A Job but overall I am feeling delighted. Really thriving. Outside of the usual me-being-impossibly-hard-on-myself/nothing-ever-being-good-enough bit.

But that’s typical.

Anyway! Hopefully this time next month I’ll be settled and employed. Also it’ll be my birth month and I’ll be obsessed with myself and expect you all to follow suit.

Yay! School and autumn and good stuff! Ignore the stressors until they go away, even if it means pretending that ignoring them will make them better in spite of the fact that it will probably/certainly exacerbate them!

Also, I didn’t read for sh*t in August. I had a good but busy month of spending real time with real people in real life, okay!!

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1. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Read: July 31 – August 1 🌷🌿🌷 Rating: 4.5 stars

Single classic for the month: check.

This is one of the last books I read for my Novel into Film class and guess the hell what!! I loved it so much. It is so funny and well-written and shdgahjsdga. It’s like if Jane Austen was really out there with her acerbic/dry wit and parodied herself.

It’s a dream and a half, basically. Remind me in a year or two to reread the living sh*t out of it.

And plz also remind me who Stella Gibbons is so I don’t just read this book by her and stop forever like a FOOL.

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2. In Paris with You by Clementine Beauvais

Read: August 6-8 🌷🌿🌷 Rating: 3.5 stars

I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway!!! Throwback to when I used to be constantly entering them and also constantly winning because I’m incredibly powerful.

Good times. Free stuff.

Anyway I didn’t realize when I was entering that this is a Poetry Book, otherwise I probably/definitely would not have entered. But here we are, and it was pretty good, except that OH MY GOD THE MALE CHARACTER SUCKS SO BAD I WANT TO SMASH HIS FACE INTO LA TOUR EIFFEL.

Threw in some minor French flair. You know. To fit the theme.

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3. Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis

Read: August 8-9 🌷🌿🌷 Rating: 3 stars

Oh wait, I actually read two classics in August!! Wow. Thanks, class.

This was the last book we read for my summer course and also Not My Favorite. To be fair it’d be rough for any book to follow Cold Comfort Farm, but this book did not do a very good job of it even by a softened standard.

The movie was better, which isn’t that hot of a take because the movie is French New Wave and Truffaut and all that. But still. I’m a book blogger, so it’s supposed to take a real bad book and a real good film to make me say sh*t like that.

(Kindly pretend I haven’t said the exact same thing here and here and 800 other times in the last 4-6 business months.)

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4. Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes

Read: August 7-12 🌷🌿🌷 Rating: 2 stars

Oh boy I was not into this at ALL, let me tell you.

But also this book is one of those books that some people are really into for reasons slightly more significant than mine for disliking it. A classic “this book spoke to my anxiety and made my life feel more valid and manageable” to my “this felt annoying!”

So if you like this book, like. Good on you. I’m not trying to take that away from you. DON’T LET ANYONE TAKE THAT AWAY FROM YOU!!!

But also this book be annoyinggggggg boi.

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5. Not if I See You First by Eric Lindstrom

Read: August 12-14 🌷🌿🌷 Rating: 1.5 stars

This is a book that I thought I disliked in a kind of harmless way (see above). Like, ah, yeah. Not for me, but evidently for a lot of people!

And then I looked at my notes and I was like “Oh. I took notes. That’s never a good sign.”

And then I wrote the review and it was a whole ass rant and I was like oh I actually really did not like that at all!!! Who knew.

Anyway. Read me rant here, if somehow you haven’t gotten more than enough of me ranting for this lifetime.

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6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Read: August 16-22 🌷🌿🌷 Rating: 4 stars

AHHHHHHH.

Oh my f*cking GOD I love Gillian Flynn so much and is there anyone better at writing women than her????? Maybe a hot take because so many of her women are f*cked up and damaged but oh my god I cannot stress enough how refreshing that is when 99% of the female characters I read are perfect interchangeable calla lilies who just arrived in the world fully formed and haven’t been so much as stepped on the whole time even as they lead existences defined by men, who are notorious for stepping on women if you haven’t heard!!!

I mean. Sharp Objects is better. But still.

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Wow. I only read 6 books. I can’t even remember the last time I read so little.

But you know what, I had the best mental health month I’ve had in a hot second and that’s a liiiiiiittle more important. Hot take.

Anyway, all of that makes for an average of…….

As always, drumroll please……………….

3.083!

Meh.

Well, I only posted twice in August. So here are those.

1. TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE SERIES REVIEW: THE EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER OF A LIFETIME

2. JUNE AND JULY COMBINATION WRAP-UP: YES, MISTAKES WERE MADE

And still, the same post haunts me…coming in at #2 most viewed for the month:

1. THE LIGHT WE LOST REVIEW

Truly I do wish this post would just die already, and let me die with it.

So! August! It’s over, we did it, etc etc! In fact it’s been over for juuuuust under 2 weeks so. Old news a bit. Please just bear with me guys, I’m trying my best.

Shortest wrap up post I’ve ever written: Check. On every level.

How was your August? What was the best book you read last month?

How’s the start of your September? What are you reading now?