ARC August 2018: Final Update

ARC August, now in its sixth year, is an annual event hosted by the lovely ladies at Read.Sleep.Repeat. 

The rules couldn’t be simpler:

• Any Advanced Reading Copy counts as part of this reading challenge; your backlist books count
• No blog is necessary to participate, but you need to include some form of social media to sign up
• There’s no pressure, you set your own target.  It’s just about having fun and getting through some ARCs.

I signed up again this year because it was the perfect motivation for me to focus on the NetGalley and other ARCs I had with publication dates in August and books I needed to read for blog tours this month.  I kept my target realistic, aiming to read six ARCs.

In fact, I did a better than that, getting through those six plus four more.  You can see my complete list below (clicking on the title will take you to my review).

This year there were also two read-a-thons (which unfortunately I wasn’t able to participate in) and Bookish Bingo.

As you can see from my bingo card, I did struggle a bit especially since my reading doesn’t often include fantasy novels, pirates or dragons and I have an inbuilt aversion to DNFs.  I’ve shown in my list below the squares to which each book was allocated.

Happiness is a Collage by Gita Reddy (Bingo: Author You’ve Read Before)

In the Blood by Ruth Mancini (Bingo: Released More Than 30 Days Ago)

The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway by Rhys Thomas (Bingo: Standalone)

A Quiet Genocide by Glenn Bryant (Bingo: Debut Author)

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (Bingo: Finish A SciFi Novel)

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (Bingo:  Has Been On Your TBR For A While)

The Secrets of Primrose Square by Claudia Carroll (Bingo: Finish A Contemporary Novel)

The Glass Diplomat by S. R. Wilsher (Bingo: Friends to Lovers)

Smart Moves by Adrian Magson (Bingo: New To You Author)

Night Flight to Paris by David Gilman (Bingo: Finish A Mystery Novel)

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So that’s my update.  If you participated in ARC August, how did you get on?