Books Read – August 2025

Graphic Novels

Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Carl Bower & Jose Alfonso Ocampo Ruiz (ill)

Non-Fiction

Thick and Other Essays – Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent – Lisa Jardine

Dogtripping – David Rosenfelt

Fiction

Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman

How to Survive a Horror Story – Mallory Arnold

Back to the Well – Gustavo Bondoni

House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones

The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch

What Abigail Did That Summer – Ben Aaronovitch

Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher

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Sunday Night Music- The Last Time I Cried

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Quote of the Week – August 22, 2025

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

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#HRCYED Subgenres of Choice

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Subgenres of Choice: (Note, I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • Cozy Fantasy: Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea (read in July) – Rebecca Thorne
  • Crime: A Matter of Death and Life (read in July) – Simon R. Green 
  • Thriller: This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us (read in July) – Edgar Cantero
  • Fairytale: Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher
  • Urban Fantasy: The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch
  • Humor: Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 (read in August) – Matt Dinniman

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Sunday Night Music- Anthem

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Quote of the Week – August 15, 2025

Do the best you can until you know better then when you know better do better.
Maya Angelou

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#HRCYED NonFiction Reading List

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Nonfiction Prompt:

  • Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy – Ed. Richard Brian Davis
  • Thick – Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • The Awful End of Prince William the Silent – Lisa Jardine
  • Dogtripping – David Rosenfelt
  • Integral Psychology – Ken Wilber

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Sunday Night Music- Carrickfergus

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Quote of the Week – August 8, 2025

He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson

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HRCYED Participation Kick-Off Post

If you haven’t heard of it, the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do is abbreviated as #HRCYED and is running around on the Book-Tube community. Am I part of that community? Not really. I watch a few here and there, but I’m not a particular participant in reviewing, nor do I make videos. 

What do I do? I read and I write. So, am I going to propose my own books against some of the challenges? You betcha. 

Have I ever met a major challenge that will make my life difficult? Nope. 

Am I going to write up my proposed reading lists so you can all see how badly I fail? Yes. 

This is me officially letting it be known that I’m doing this challenge. It’s supposed to be a year-long challenge, so we’ll see how long I last. 

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