The Weekly Wrap: July 20th to July 26th

I’ve decided to start doing a weekly, monthly and yearly wrap up/review of my reading habits. I have so many books I want to read that I’ve purchased and still need to read, books I need to investigate and books I want to review. I also only review two books a week on my blog, which is not indicative of how many books I’m reading during the week.

Hopefully, by doing this weekly and monthly wrap, I’ll be able to expose more readers to some excellent books!

Updates

Last Week’s Blog Updates	July’s Goodreads Reviews (So Far)
📖 Empowering and Transformative: Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given 📖 Impactful and Reflective: The Grace Year by Kim Liggett	📚 The Elemental Collective: Volume 1 by Montana Ash 📚 Reckoning by Montana Ash 📚 Dragon Unleashed by Grace Draven

Contents

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Weekly Review

Last Week’s Reviews: On Feminism

Last week’s reviews were thematically linked by feminism. My next review will also discuss feminism but from an academic perspective.

What I Read Last Week

Key: 🔁 re-read| ❌ DNF | 📜 from my Up Next shelf | 📲 eARC

• The Gladiator’s Downfall (Age of the Andinna, #1) by Kristen Banet 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Mercenary’s Bounty (Age of the Andinna, #2) by Kristen Banet 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Warrior’s Assault (Age of the Andinna, #3) by Kristen Banet 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Rebel’s Vision (Age of the Andinna, #4) by Kristen Banet 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Enemy’s Triumph (Age of the Andinna, #5) by Kristen Banet 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My Reading Progress

I typically buy hardcopy books in bulk which has resulted in quite a few books falling through the cracks over the years. I’ve also been organizing my Kindle recently and have come across 300+ books I’ve purchased (or found for free) that I have not yet read! So, my Up Next shelf on Goodreads is comprised of all the books I own that I need to read. My Unread shelf, comparatively, includes books I own that I don’t think I’ll read.

I want to keep track of my progress because I’ve already spent the money on these books. Currently, my Up Next list is 148 books long… but there are a bunch of goodies on it so I’m excited!

Over the past few weeks I’ve read the following on this list:

• Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given (See my review here)
• The Enemy’s Triumph (Age of the Andinna, #5) by Kristen Banet
• The Rebel’s Vision (Age of the Andinna, #5) by Kristen Banet
• Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7) by Sarah J. Maas
• Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6) by Sarah J. Maas
• Victoria’s Embrace (Taken, #4) by Stacy Jones
• The Grace Year by Kim Liggett (See my review here)
• Dragon Unleashed (Fallen Empire, #2) by Grace Draven
• Victoria’s Discovery (Taken, #3) by Stacy Jones
• Painless (Steel Demons MC, #4) by Crystal Ash
• Echoes of Blood and Glory (Daylight’s Crown, #3) by Ripley Proserpina
• Sandy (Vested Interest, #7) by Melanie Moreland
• When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk (See my review here)
• Sex and World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli and Chad F. Emmett
• WorkParty: How to Create & Cultivate the Career of Your Dreams by Jaclyn Johnson
• The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver (See my review here)
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (See my review here)

Want to Read

The Upcoming Week

To Be Read

The following books are to be finished sometime this week.

Books I’m Thinking of Buying This Week

Books I Want in Hardcopy: