August's Ambitious Adventure Update #CTBS

Some of us have been "Conquering The Book Shelves" this month. The only rules are:
No book purchases (except at book signings) and read some of the books that have been begging to be read in our TBR piles. I posted my planned reading schedule at the beginning the month and here is my update.

So far this month I've read:

• The Returned (for upcoming review)
• Lowcountry Spirit
• Nightwoods 

I'm currently reading:

• The Perfume Collector

I'm going "off list" and made two variations so far:

• Oryx & Crake (re-reading)
• Mrs. Poe

I abandoned:

• The Color Master

Next up is:

• A Fatal Likeness
• The Affairs of Others
• Hardscrabble Road
• Shorter's Way
• The Well and the Mine
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England
• Slammerkin
• I Don't
• The Means of Reprodution

I'm not exactly following the original list.  I want to fulfill my review obligations for the month before I dive into the #ctbs. How's everyone else doing?