August Wrap-Up

August Snapshots

1. Attack of the drones. August started with me vacuuming my bedroom. I looked up from the floor, and there was a drone hovering outside my window, watching me with its little camera eyes. Yeah. The neighbor kid got a drone. He enjoys flying it at the exact height of my bedroom window. Great. This isn’t weird at all.

Every time I see the drone, I'm temped to climb onto the roof and go King Kong on it.

2. I actually went outside in August. *Gasp. The horror!* I had a Denver Five Things Pass. That means I got to leave the house and do five things in Denver. Four of the five places I went were excellent:

• I went to the zoo and saw grown zebras making baby zebras.
• I went to the science museum and learned that there are a lot of rocks in the world (and the science museum seems to have all of them).
• I saw a creepy statue lady the botanic garden.
• At the aquarium, I saw many odd and possibly delicious fish.

Then I wandered around Denver, ate chocolate, and didn’t buy anything at the bookstore. *Pats self on back.*

3. But what was the fifth thing? The final thing I did with the Five Things Pass was visit the airplane museum. I learned that I really don’t care about airplanes. The airplane museum seems to be the place where old dudes go to talk about wars and parents go to pay $7.50 for their kids to crash the flight simulator.

How quickly can the ejection seat on this plane get me away from the airplane museum?

I thought this was the first bird to ever be sucked into a jet engine. It's not. It's a mascot. Of disappointment.

4. I accidentally won at Twitter. Look at the Likes/Retweets on this. People don’t usually pay that much attention to me. Thanks, Twitter!

Wayward Googlers

Here are a few amusing Google searches that led people to Read All The Things! I’m sorry to the unfortunate souls who ended up here instead of finding what they were Googling for.

The Wayward Googlers had strange and dirty minds in August. The searches were like one of those guessing games. I’ll give you a sentence. You tell me if it’s:

A. A book title

B. An illegal activity

“love at all ages.” I hope this is an innocent book title and not something illegal. 

“Queenly and kings sex.” You might be referring to this book or this book? Maybe? 

“Klash Of Kings.” Love your Kreative spelling. You might be looking for this review. 

“Let’s pretend you never saw her.” Deal. Also, I hope this is a book title. I honestly don't know.

Books I Read

In August, I read 7 books. That’s a terrible reading month, but I spent a lot of time doing non-bookish things.

Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce

The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt

The Cresswell Plot by Eliza Wass

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Stranded by Bracken MacLeod

Best Books Of August

1. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt

2. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

3. The Cresswell Plot by Eliza Wass

Most-Viewed August Reviews

1. As Brave As You || Brown Girl Dreaming

2. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

3. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 

Most-Viewed August Non-Reviews

1. Top Ten Tuesday: Why I Love Your Book Blog

2. Discussion: The Blogosphere’s Favorite Books Of 2018 (So Far)

3. I’d Love To Read About: Useless Mythical Creatures

All The Things!

Distance I’ve sloppily jogged so far this year = 168 miles (270 km).

Number of unread books on my TBR shelf = 57 books.

I’m currently reading = Psycho by Robert Bloch.

What did you do in August?