August Reading!

Hello!
So, I thought I would start a new thing of posting on here all the books I have read (or started to read) at the end of each month! I don't read as much when I'm writing, so there'll be some quite short months while other months will be quite filled with books! They will all be very non-spoilery. Practically non-reviewy. I'm not very good at reviewing other' writer's. Mainly cause I know the work that goes into writing!
I can't believe it's September already! I've already started on Christmas plans. Hmm...I wonder if my boyfriend will notice if I start putting up some decorations? (Christmas lover over here, don't mind me.)
ANYWAY,
back to books.

AUGUST.

Okay, so my list for this month was actually surprisingly long. While I didn't finish them all (I mean, look at A Little Life!), I certainly got a lot of reading done! I'm back to writing again in September, meaning this list will be quite a bit shorter (and probably some of these still too).

General list:

#1 - 'You Know Me Well' by Nina LaCour and David Levithan
#2 - 'Wintersong' by S. Jae-Jones
#3 - 'The Love Incidents' by Amy Fowler (me. Woop!)
#4 - 'A Little Life' by Hanya Yanagihara
#5 - 'What Maisie Knew' by Henry James

#1 - 'YOU KNOW ME WELL'

BLURB

Who knows you well?

Your best friend?

Your boyfriend or girlfriend?

A stranger you meet on a crazy night?

No one, really?

Mark and Kate sit next to each other every day, but their paths outside of class never cross-until one night Kate spots Mark out in the city, miles away from home. Kate is lost, having just run away from a chance to meet the girl she has been in love with from afar. Mark is in love with his best friend, Ryan, who may or may not feel the same way. 

Little do they know then how important they will become to each other - and how, in a very short time, they will know each other better than any of the people who are supposed to know them well. 

MY NOTES

- I read this book in an afternoon and I loved it. 

- It's not easily forgettable like a lot of books I can read in an afternoon

- LGBT characters always makes a book an A+ for me. 

- I love the cover design. 

#2 - 'Wintersong'

BLURB

All her life, Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, dangerous Goblin King. They've enraptured her spirit and inspired her musical compositions. Now eighteen, Liesl can't help but feel that her musical dreams and childhood fantasies are slipping away. 

But when her sister is taken by the Goblin Kind, Liesl must journey to the Underground to save her. Drawn to the strange, captivating world she finds - and the mysterious man who rules it - she soon faces an impossible decision. With time and the old laws working against her, Liesl must discover who she truly is before her fate is sealed. 

MY NOTES

- My second time reading it.

- gasp

- Gasp

- GASP

- I've never had a book hangover as bad as with this book. Even the second time around.

- Not normally a fantasy lover but GASP.

#3 - 'The Love Incidents'

BLURB

When four very different women are chosen to write a book about the modern women’s view on sex, they think it’ll be an easy assignment. And an easier paycheck.

Or is it?

Miller Derby is engaged to a man she isn’t sure she loves and Jessa Malliver is content with one night stands to stop thinking about the boy who broke her heart into a million pieces; Hope Young is desperately trying to forget about how lonely she is since her divorce and Pippa Forrest is trying to remain in control of her heart by enforcing strict rules on her friend with benefits.

Despite their differences, the four become friends, learning secrets and telling lies along the way.

But when their lives start to overlap and the secrets start to come out, their newfound friendship is stretched to the limit.

When their ‘easy assignment’ forces all of them to look deeper into their own feelings and the lies they’ve told themselves, they have to make a decision; pretend the book hasn’t changed them at all or accept the changes as something good.

MY NOTES

- Uhh...I wrote it?

- Derp

#4 - 'A Little Life'

BLURB

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel painter pursuing fame in the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves at their centre of gravity. 

Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself; by midlife a terrifyingly talented lawyer yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by a degree of trauma that he fears he will not only be unable to overcome - but that will define his life forever. 

MY NOTES

- Still unfinished. (It's gonna take me a while!)

- So far, I like it. 

- Love the cover/spine design. I'm a sucker for a different coloured spine. 

#5 - 'What Maisie Knew'

BLURB

The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. 

MY NOTES

- While short, so HARD to read for long periods of time

- I find I need to read cliff notes after each chapter to understand what I just read

- Strangely modern in it's themes. 

- Love Henry James though

- Can't go wrong with a classic

- I WILL FINISH THIS BOOK

YAY READING

So that is my August book list! I'm excited to see what I read in September! 

Have you read any of these books? What did you think?

Any recommendations for me for the coming months?

Love to everyone!

-Amy! xx