I already did this month’s prompt for the #ShelfLove challenge last month, but what the hey — I’ll do it again. My favourite book since I picked Tropic of Serpents last month has to be Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie. It swept the awards when it came off, and swept a lot of my friends off their feet. I bounced off the first time I tried to read it, but once I got into it, I gobbled it up and immediately read the sequel, Ancillary Sword. You can find my review here!

As for a general update, here goes. Green is for good progress or sticking to a target; orange is for marginal or in progress things. Red is for an uh-oh.

• 32/51+ already owned books read (last one recorded: Fire, 20/07)
• Spent: £21 out of ~£30 budget (budget is 10% of my income) for January
• Spent: £20 out of ~£25 budget for February
• Spent: £22 out of ~£25 budget for March
• Spent: £15 out of ~£16 budget for April
• Spent: £45 out of ~£30 budget for May
• Spent: £18 out of ~£40 budget for June, plus stuck within holiday budget
• Spent: £45 out of ~£50 budget for July

Here’s my more general progress on resolutions:

• No books impulse-bought (despite a recent spree, that was still books I considered for at least a day first!)
• Read every day 
• Bed before midnight (couple of issues lately with work)
• Up before ten every day
• Only bought one book from a series at a time
• Posted to the blog every day
• Commented on at least one other blog every day (back on the wagon with this now)
• Tithed 10% in January, February, March, April, May & June; not picked a charity for July
• Done 55 hours volunteering total
• Reading/reviewing books from NG/etc (63% ratio; still making steady progress)

So that’s pretty good progress, as long as I behave myself for the last eleven days of July! Yay me.