JULY 2021 WRAP-UP

My #20BooksofSummer21 is doing well. In fact, I have already read 21 books, but only 5 from my original list (and I had to DNF one from that list). Hopefully, I can read from this list by the end of August.
And actually, most important for me, I have managed to catch up with a few reviews (see links below), on books I received for review in 2019-2021, that I read and even enjoyed a lot, but never took time to review!! I still have 5 books to review that I read last year, and I hope I can catch up with those during this last month of Summer.

July has my best statistics for 2021 so far, as for number of pages read per day.

📚 Here is what I read in July:

14 books:
10 in print 
=  with 2,634 pages, a daily average of 84 pages/day
4 in audio
= 24H54, a daily average of 52 minutes

5 in mystery:

1. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot #24), by Agatha Christie
2. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #25), by Agatha Christie
3. The Hollow, (Hercule Poirot #26), by Agatha Christie – these first 3 were as audiobooks, for The Classics Club
4. Impact, by Olivier Norek – French audiobook
5. When All Light Fails, by Randall Silvis – ebook received for review

4 in nonfiction:

1. The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson – won through Goodreads
2. Languages of Truth, by Salman Rushdie – ebook received for review
3. Living With a Dead Language, by Ann Patty
4. Sur la lecture [On Reading], by Marcel Proust – for The Classics Club

2 in poetry:

1. The Lost Spells, by Robert MacFarlane & Jackie Morris
2. Alphabet, by Paul Valéry – French poetry in prose – for The Classics Club

2 as graphic novels:

1. The Apothecary Diaries, vol.2, by Natsu Hyuuga – manga, historical novel, for the Books in Translation Challenge
2. Cats of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto – fantasy, for the Books in Translation Challenge

1 in literary fiction:

1. Les Revenentes et autres lipogrammes, by Georges Perec – French ebook

MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH

READING CHALLENGES & RECAP

Classics Club: 65/137 (from November 2020-until November 2025)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 12 books
#20BooksofSummer21: 21/20 books
Total of books read in 2021 = 97/120 (80%)

Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 21

OTHER BOOKS  REVIEWED THIS PAST MONTH

GIVEAWAYS

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Books available for swapping

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The top 7 books to read in July 2021

BOOK BLOG THAT BROUGHT ME MOST TRAFFIC THIS PAST MONTH

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Come back on Monday
to see the books I plan to read in August

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How was YOUR month of July?

Nicole at Feed Your Fiction Addiction
has created a Month In Review meme
where you can link your monthly recap posts
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