Monthly Wrap-Up: July 2015

July was kind of a bittersweet month. I started out really strong in the beginning of the month, but then I hit a reading slump toward the end of the month. I must have started and put down 3 different books in the last week and a half.
This month I've finished 14 books: 10 novels and 4 graphic novels.

This month I participated in the #CRAMATHON. I didn't do as well as I'd have liked in this read-a-thon, but I didn't do too poorly:

Read a children's book - Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
Read a hardcover book - Mind Games by Kiersten White
Read two books in 24 hours (DONE!)
Read a graphic novel - World of Warcraft Vol. 1 by Walter Simonson/Ludo Lullabi/Sandra Hope (DONE!)
Read a book written in verse - What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (DONE!)
Read a novella - The Prince (The Selection #0.5) by Kiera Cass
Read five books total - The Selection (The Selection #1) by Kiera Cass (DONE!)

3 books in a weekend? Not too shabby...

Books I Finished This Month

Novels

Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3) by Marissa Meyer
Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison
The Selection (The Selection, #1) by Kiera Cass
What My Mother Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know #1) by Sonya Sones
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know, #2) by Sonya Sones
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
The Elite (The Selection, #2) by Kiera Cass
The One (The Selection, #3) by Kiera Cass
Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Dreamland by Robert L. Anderson

Graphic Novels

World of Warcraft, Vol. 1 by Walter Simonson
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1 by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen

July TBR Challenge

The challenges I drew from the TBR jar for July were:

Read a book with 500+ pages: Cress by Marissa Meyer (DONE!)
Read a book that has been on your shelf for 5+ years: .............. (failed)

I assure you I tried to read a book that was on my shelf for 5+ years, but it didn't happen. I kept putting it down. Oh well. Note to self - drawing one challenge per month is probably good enough. Perhaps I will draw two challenges and choose which one I want to do... We'll see next month, won't we!