August 2019 Month-in-Review

Another month and it was a big one!  August was my best month ever at Every Day Should Be Tuesday.  It was also my third best month ever at Hillbilly Highways (and it just missed it being the second best month ever).  I also had my third best week ever at Hillbilly Highways, propelled by what are already my 8th and 9th most popular posts at Hillbilly Highways all-time.

And I did all that with only five posts at Every Day Should Be Tuesday.  I was a little busier at Hillbilly Highways, with twelve posts (even if a couple were lazy reposts).

More importantly, I am still sitting at Mount PBR parity after a heroic last minute effort to finish books by the end of month—6 books in 6 days (and I just missed 7 books in 7 days). For the third month in a row I finished 9 books.  I am definitely going to drop Mount TBR a few notches in September. I might not finish as many books, but for once I swear I am going to go a little easy on the book acquisition.

So what is coming up?  I remain super busy in the real world.  no-angel finally started walking, so I am only going to spend more time chasing her around.  I have a review backlog to clear at Hillbilly Highways, and The Faithful and the Fallen series at Every Day Should Be Tuesday (I need to decide whether I will write a full review for each or just one post).  I also have a big announcement, although I may wind up pushing it until October.

 

August Reviews

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo, Mum’s the Word for Murder by Brett Halliday, and Full Curl by Dave Butler (Short Review Roundup)
• Devil’s Call by J. Danielle Dorn
• Thick As Thieves by Ken Lizzi
• Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

 

Top 5 Posts at Every Day Should Be Tuesday

• Wheel of Time TV Show Makes Casting Announcements for 5 of 6 Main Characters
• Half a King was my Introduction to Joe Abercrombie
• July 2019 Month-in-Review
• Thick As Thieves is Fun, Pulpy SF Crime Fiction
• 2019 Bookish Resolutions Mid-Year Check-in

 

Top 5 Posts at Hillbilly Highways

• The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
• Film: The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• SF: Devil’s Call by J. Danielle Dorn
• New Music Friday: Country Squire by Tyler Childers (tie)
• Short Review Roundup – Fiction edition (tie)

 

Books acquired

• Ruin by John Gwynne
• Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero by Tyler Cowen
• The Fallon Pride by Robert Jordan
• Donnybrook by Frank Bill
• Conan the Valorous by John Maddox Roberts
• Conan the Marauder by John Maddox Roberts
• The Rise of the Creative Class—Revisited by Richard Florida
• More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—And What Happens Next by Andrew McAfee (review copy)
• Wrath by John Gwynne

 

Books started

• Ruin by John Gwynne
• We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
• Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero by Tyler Cowen
• Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) by Kent Greenfield (reread)
• Clearing the Air: The Beginning and End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley
• The Harp of Kings by Juliet Marillier
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Donnybrook by Frank Bill
• Broadswords and Blasters issue no. 6
• Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp

 

Books finished

• Ruin by John Gwynne
• The Harp of Kings by Juliet Marillier
• Donnybrook by Frank Bill
• The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics by Kevin D. Williamson
• Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Wheel of Time Companion by Robert Jordan et al.
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero by Tyler Cowen
• Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley

 

Mount TBR Counter

• August: +0
• Year-to-date: +0