 So I've low-key been waiting all month to wear this shirt for this video, and I know you guys can't even see it, but like What this shirt is is a cat sleeping on top of a bunch of books that are based off of classics, but they have cat puns. So it's like the cat is reading them because they have cat puns. 100 years of cat naps. The secret litter box, 10,000 dogs under the sea. It's full of puns with classics and cats, and I love it. And so since July I read all classics. I thought I would wear it for this wrap-up. So yes, July was my month to read classics, and I did this because I loved reading classics in middle school. But I haven't read them much since middle school, and I tried to start reading them, but I just I never really got into it. So I set this month aside to read classics. And this is actually what happened. Hey fellow reading warriors, and welcome back to my channel. Today, I'm gonna be discussing the classics that I attempted, attempted to read this month. So first off, I started Anakarana by Leo Tostoy, and I started the audiobook for this, and it was actually going pretty good. I was enjoying the story. I was like, It's kind of hard to keep the character straight from one another, but as the more I listened to it and the more I realized I had a lot more to go, I just the beast got to me a little bit, got to me a bit, and I did not finish it. Not because I lost interest in the story, but just because I would get so stressed out whenever I saw, you know, it's a 40-hour long audiobook, but physically reading this was not gonna make it any better. So as of this moment, I have not finished it. I don't want to give up on it, but I have not finished it. The next one, Tale of Two Cities by Travis Dickens. As you can see, there's still a bookmark out of this because this is divided up into three books. I have read the first book, and that is it. Again, well, no, but this one is different. My bookmark is falling out. This one is different because I was not immediately captured into the story. I did not immediately have interest in what was going on. It was a build-up, and even then, I'm still not interested. I've read Charles Dickens before, and it was fine, but like, I don't know, I just haven't been really interested or motivated. I kind of went through a bit of a slump recently. So, like, again, I'm keeping the bookmark in here and hopes that, like, one day I'll be like, oh, yeah, I'll pick this up and I'll quick read it, but we'll see how long the bookmark will stay in here. Again, not officially DNF-ing it until the bookmark comes out. The last book in this sad, sad rap is The Secret Garden, and this is by Frances Hutch and Burnett. And I read this for the reading rush, so I had to read it and I had to get it done and I had to get it done on time. And I started it in middle school, DNF'd it, picked it up again now. I finally finished it. My word. There's just so much that I didn't understand about it in middle school that I think I put it down because it wasn't the right time for me to read it. I wasn't ready to read it. I was not in a place where I could really understand what all was going on. And especially because I didn't know too much about history and I had a hard time with the accents. I know that. So yeah, I think middle school just wasn't the right time, so I did finish that one book. So out of three books, I finished the one. So it was not a great wrap up, but again, I kind of went through a little bit of a slump before and after the reading rush, and even during the reading rush, I kind of had to like push myself through. And I think none of these books were particularly motivating for me to read. And so I looked at what I'm doing for August. And August was going to be adventure because August adventure, I like the alliteration. Plus there were just still a bunch of books on my shelf that were kind of older, but were also very adventurous. You know, like I have the Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, and I have Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. And so I was like, oh, like those kind of classic adventure books, I need to get those read and like completed off my shelf. But again, I'm just not not feeling it. And I am very much an emotional reader. Like I've set such TBRs every month for the past seven months, and I'm stuck to them. But let me tell you, it's really starting to take a toll, especially because again, August adventure was kind of a placeholder for another genre that I was going to pick based on what my library had, but still can't go there. I can only request curbside pickup. And so I can't go into the library and browse yet. So I'm still having a hard time browsing for books, especially since, you know, getting married in like six days, I've been working a lot. And so I haven't been working to make money. So I haven't been buying books. So I have no book budget at all, which is why I haven't uploaded a haul in a while. But yeah, so my intent was to read adventure books in August. However, I might just take a break. I might just kind of read whatever I want on my shelf. I know surprise shocker. It's not like everyone else on booktube or in the world does that. But I recently, I recently saw a friend of mine who is just a wonderful book owner reader editor, like she she does so much and she is incredible. And she gave me the school for good and evil trilogy. And I had read the first book like way back like middle school or early high school. But I didn't know that there was the rest of the trilogy. And she just now was like, Hey, oh, you didn't know that was a trilogy? Well, here, let me give you all three books. You read them, tell me what you think. I was like, okay. And then she also gave me a couple other books because she's just so kindhearted and generous. So I've just been like, oh my word, I want to read these books that she's given me or is letting me borrow to read and then talk with her about. So I might just kind of take a break from my year long genre exploration project and just kind of get back into reading because I felt like especially this past month was such a chore to read, which is not how I want this to feel. And like May and June were great because those were books and genres that I knew that I loved and I wanted to read. But this past month wasn't so much. And I didn't, I don't think this next coming month would be either. So yeah, there's my very long explanation, which could have been summed up in like two sentences. So next month, I will not do my regular reading. And I will reading and I will just read what makes me happy to get me out of this reading slump. And then we'll check back in with September. I know, I'm pretty sure December, I'm excited. Okay, so I do have all the months planned out and I am excited for October, December, and I'm not remembering what September, November were. I think one of them is poetry and we'll see about that. Because I have never liked poetry, but I might also just do books in verse, but that's again, if I can get more access to books written in verse or poetry. So yeah. Anyway, that is my very sad wrap up for this past month and what this next coming month is going to look like. So comment down below if you guys have ever tried to push yourself just to close to a TBR and how it just didn't work for you or if you actually got through it and were proud of yourself. Let me know. Also, let me know if you have any good like book cat puns because like literally one of them is a tale of two kitties and I couldn't even finish a tale of two cities. So anyway, comment down below, like this video, even if it's just for the cat shirt. Subscribe to the channel if you're new and if you want to follow my yearlong genre review or if you don't want to, comment that down below and I am seriously considering like abandoning it a little bit more, especially this coming month. So with that, I'm gonna wish you all a happy reading.