Wrap up July 2024

Everything I read in July and some rambling. Please excuse the bad grammar and wrong word choices - this wrap up has been more than a challenge for me.

Videos of July:

Books and Timestamps

0:00 Intro
1:19 What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
3:00 The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna Van Praag
7:47 Lucian's True History by Lucian of Samosata
8:35 Transition
8:53 Song of the Last Kingdom by Amélie Wen Zhao
11:49 A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
13:45 Geekerella by Ashley Poston
14:42 The 5 Minute Detective by Drew Hayes
(The Case of the Haunted Haunted House & The Case of the Felonious Faire)
15:54 The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
16:30 Outro

[rustydogz]

Several books that sound good in premise but do not deliver. Thanks for the heads-up.
I am re-reading Dantes' Inferno and Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, and reading Sapkowski's The Lady of the Lake, Hemingway's Islands in the Stream, and Sanderson's The Lost Metal.

[jacquelinemcmenamin]

Best books read so far in August
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
My Friends by Hisham Matar
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin