August was a decent reading month, although it felt like I was dragging along and not finishing much. I ended up enjoying all of my reads decently and finishing a review book, which is always an accomplishment.
Books Read in August
- The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz--One of my book clubs chose this one--it's an authorized Sherlock Holmes by a different author. Horowitz did a fantastic job of recreating the style, tone, and atmosphere of the original Holmes books--sometimes a little too good in terms of casual racism imo although the point of this book is a class takedown and a bit of gendered poetic justice. There's also a pretty upsetting plot point that might trigger some.
- Learning to Fly Alien Spacecraft by Fay Abernethy--Review book from LibraryThing that took me forever to get through--I enjoyed the detailed depictions of mostly utopian alien societies but I was not in the mood for three mostly separate plotlines.
- Study for the World's Body by David St. John--Book of poems I've been reading for a while but I finished it in August. It was a National Book Award finalist in 1994. He has some pretty ambitious modern-style poems, a lot of them set in Italy where he lived for a while, although he's American.
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