I like to think that I have good excuses for my reading plan going completely awry, but, excuses or no, it fell apart quite thoroughly. The only reason my reading accomplishments for the month don't look entirely pathetic is because the above includes two audio books and two DNFs. That's right, I actually completed reading four books this month.

*Samantha hangs her head in shame.*

That hasn't stopped me from accepting more books to review and assaulting NetGalley with requests, so I have a larger TBR than ever that I hope to attack with greater effectiveness in September.

August Summary:

Audio Books:

Little Women

Watch the Lady

DNF:

A Perilous Alliance

The Fall of Satan

More Historical than Fiction Book Club:

A Place of Greater Safety

Indie Reads:

The Serpent Sword

Wolf's Head

Best Book of August:

The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy - no competition whatsoever, loved this book!

You may have noticed that this was NOT on my August reading list . . . . 

Alright, that is actually a little weird if you noticed that. Stalker.

Anyway, I grabbed this at the library despite already having more books on my reading list than I had any hope of getting through. It's been sitting here for two weeks tempting me. "Samantha, Sherlock is in here. Come on. You don't have anything else to do."

The book is lying, but I picked it up anyway.

I had my Kindle open as well, to a book that IS on my reading list, a book that I have from NetGalley and need to read. I cruelly slapped the cover shut on my Kindle and picked up The House of Silk instead. I mean, really, how could I have done anything else?

This novel quickly rewarded me. The prologue explains that this story is one that Watson penned shortly before his death and after Sherlock's, but it was simply too scandalous for him to allow its publication. In his will it was ordered locked away for 100 years. Until now. 

I shouldn't have started this. My day is ruined.