I am excited to read all the books I picked out this month. Last month, I let myself be a mood reader. Mood reading is exactly what it sounds like. I didn’t pre-plan what I was going to read, instead, I chose whatever I wanted to read without any rhyme or reason. It was a nice break from the TBR format from previous months. The theme for this month is shorter books. Every book I plan on reading is 330 pages or less. Here are the books I plan to read in July.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Nora Seed wanders to The Midnight Library, a library between life and death. Each book in The Midnight Library allows Nora to view a portion of her life if she made a different decision. She wants to build the perfect life for herself, but is that even possible?

I think the concept of The Midnight Library is fascinating. I don’t think I would go to The Midnight Library if I had the option. Things worked out in my life how they were supposed to. Viewing alternative choices would only make me feel worse. I’m curious to see how this book plays out.

Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce

Riley has big dreams of working on Broadway. She has been busy working on this year’s high school musical which she enjoys. Riley is grounded and as punishment, she has to work at her dad’s game shop. Riley meets Nathan, one of the employees at the game store who also runs a DnD game. Riley realizes that her initial flirtations with Nathan might be something more.

This book was written for me. Romance involving table-top roleplaying games, I mean c’mon.

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge who studies Faeries and folklore. She travels to a small town to continue her studies and meets her academic rival there. Emily is determined to stay busy and not make friends with anyone. In her path for knowledge, she discovers potentially dark fae magic that could threaten to destroy all she holds dear.

The first three sentences in the Goodreads preview of this book are “A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love at the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series”. This sounds right up my alley. I didn’t know that curmudgeonly was a word, but now I have to figure out how to use this word more often.

This will be a great reading month for me. In a few weeks, I will be going to a friend’s cabin and there’s nothing that I love more than sitting in the sun and reading a book.