Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hey friends!
July was a great month of reading, helped by some bookish besties who had partial control of my TBR prompts XD I had multiple 5-star reads, got through some TBR veterans and continued multiple series!

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BOOKS MENTIONED:
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- Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
- Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
- This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
- Thousand Li: First Step by Tao Wong
- Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama
- Cat + Gamer by Wataru Nadatani
- Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
- Endurance by Alfred Lansing
- Death Masks by Jim Butcher
- Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent by Scott Lynch

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