July 2022 Wrap Up

✨JULY WRAP UP✨

Time for another reading wrap up! As usual, artwork by yours truly 🖊🤓.

A quick recap of the nine books I read in July:

✨Ready Player One: A sci-fi classic about the hunt for a real-life treasure in a virtual world.

✨On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: This poetic yet deeply heavy novel tackles racism, trauma, masculinity & more as it follows the story of a queer Vietnamese boy’s family legacy.

✨Nothing But The Truth: An ambitious young publicist wakes on her 30th birthday to find she is unable to lie… which poses a major problem for both her professional and personal life.

✨One Italian Summer: Mourning the death of her mother, Katy sets off alone on a long-planned mother-daughter trip to the Amalfi Coast where she is greeted by an unlikely surprise.

✨No Light to Land On: This beautiful contemporary fiction book explores the impact of the Trump administration’s 2018 travel ban from the perspective of a young Syrian family torn apart.

✨The Awoken: This epic sci-fi adventure takes place in a dystopian world where cryogenics have made it possible to preserve and revive the dead. With humanity’s newfound ability to “play God,” a war between conflicting ideologies ensues.
📖Publication date: August 9th

✨Kaleidoscope: A Chinese American family living the American Dream fights to survive after a devastating accident.

✨Nightcrawling: A devastatingly accurate contemporary fiction novel about a Black teen and the miscarriage of justice that favors those in positions of power.

✨The House Across the Lake: When a woman goes missing from an affluent country town, the intrusive neighbor across the lake becomes determined to find answers. A psychological thriller with a supernatural twist.

My favorites this month were The Awoken and No Land to Light On. I also LOVED Ready Player One (despite already having seen the movie). 💯