August 2020 Monthly Goals | The month of catching up!

I don’t want to sound exactly the same every single month, but WOW! how is it August already??? Time passes so quickly! Usually, August would mean NEWTs Magical Read-a-thon hosted by the one and only G @BookRoast, however, this year due to the multiple comments made by J.K. Rowling about the trans community, G decided to step away from Harry Potter theme. NEWTs will still happen this month, but very low-key, and there won’t be any usual hosting and activities as before. 

Considering all of the above, I decided to skip NEWTs this year. Partially because of all the dram around HP author and partially because I just need a month to do some catching up. *thumbs up*

I feel very overwhelmed by the number of books I tried to read in July, so I need to take it easy for a bit, put less pressure on myself and finally finish books I started at the beginning of this year. 

There won’t be a fixed TBR pile this time, but I have a couple of goals I still want to achieve. Let’s focus on them instead!

AUGUST MONTHLY GOALS:

1 – Finish books I started earlier this year.
There are three books that I started reading, put down and haven’t picked them back up for a couple of months now: «Americanah» by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; «Girl, Woman, Other» by Bernardine EVaristo, and «The Toll» by Neal Shusterman.

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2 – Finish ARCs for August & September.
I have two ARCs that will be coming out in September, which I still need to read – «The Bone Shard Daughter» by Andrea Stewart – a new epic fantasy, and «Just Like You» by Nick Hornby.

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3 – Finish 2019 ARCs (maybe?)
This year I’ve been doing very well with my NetGalley ARCs, always reading and reviewing them on time. But I still have 4 ARCs from 2019 that I haven’t read yet… Oops! Every single month I tell myself that I will read them, I will prioritize them, aaand… nothing. Hopefully, August will be THE month to get them off my TBR once and for all!

4 – Read a couple of classics or non-fiction
Even though I graduated from school and university many years ago, August will always be the “preparation month” for the new school year. And more often than not, I would spend most of the month trying to catch up on my summer reading list. This time, I thought I’d try to read a couple of classics or non-fiction books to celebrate my memories of this time of the year.

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5 – Read books from my “5-Stars Prediction” list.
At the beginning of this year, I made a post about my 5-star predictions, and so far only read 1 of them. Since this is the month I’ll be catching up on things, might as well throw this goal in here and see if I can read a couple more books from that list.

6 – Join the Literally Dead Book Club.
I’ll be reading «Home Before Dark» by Riley Sager together with the Literally Dead Book Club, hosted by Kayla from BooksandLala!

That’s it for my August goals! Somehow I still ended with 6 goals and almost 15 books on my “tentative” TBR. I’ll see how it goes, but I’m definitely not going to stress if I don’t read even half of them. 😀 

What book are you the most excited to read in August? Have you read any of the books I mentioned?

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