Yeah, I know, we’re halfway through August. Better late than never?<\/p>\n
Book titles are linked to my review. Author names are linked to my page for that author. If you go to any review and click through to Amazon and buy a book, I get pennies for that purchase, so, you know, please do. Supernatural Mystery<\/strong> Historical Romance<\/strong> Anthology<\/strong> Graphic Novel \/ Comic<\/strong> Audio Books<\/strong> Here’s the breakdown of what I read: Multiple Formats: 3 Lots of re-reads this month, some of which are books I have in multiple formats. (I have The Privilege of the Sword<\/a><\/em> in trade paper, audio, and eBook format. So yay for giving Ellen Kushner all my money!) Lots of mysteries. Half the fantasy I read were also mysteries, and the one straight-up fantasy didn’t have a lick of fantasy or a single supernatural creature in it. 10\/10<\/strong> 9\/10<\/strong> 8\/10<\/strong> There you have it, July’s reading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yeah, I know, we’re halfway through August. Better late than never? Book titles are linked to my review. Author names are linked to my page for that author. If you go to any review and click through to Amazon and buy a book, I get pennies for that purchase, so, you know, please do. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2NC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nMystery<\/strong>
\nDeath at La Fenice<\/a><\/em> (1992) Donna Leon <\/a>
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\nHistorical Mystery<\/strong>
\nLord John and the Private Matter<\/a><\/em> (2003) Diana Gabaldon<\/a>
\nLord John and the Hand of Devil<\/a>s<\/em> (2007) Diana Gabaldon
\nLord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade<\/a><\/em> (2007) Diana Gabaldon
\nThe Custom of the Army<\/a><\/em> (2012) Diana Gabaldon
\nA Plague of Zombies<\/a><\/em> (2012) Diana Gabaldon
\nA Spell of Vengeance<\/a><\/em> (2012) D.B. Jackson<\/a>
\nLegacy of the Dead<\/a><\/em> (2000) Charles Todd<\/a>
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\nHard Spell<\/a><\/em> (2011) Justin Gustainis<\/a>
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\nKitty<\/a><\/em> (1979) Marion Chesney<\/a> and M. C. Beaton
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\nThe Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction<\/a><\/em> (2011) edited by Mike Ashley<\/a>
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\nWalking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod<\/a><\/em> (2013) Brian Kesinger
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\nThe Privilege of the Sword<\/a><\/em> (2012) Ellen Kushner<\/a> (Author, Narrator), Barbara Rosenblat, Felicia Day, Joe Hurley, Katherine Kellgren, Nick Sullivan, Neil Gaiman
\nSmall Vices<\/a><\/em> (2002) written Robert B. Parker<\/a> narrated by Burt Reynolds
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\nI read 14 books in July, taking me to 108 books so far this year.<\/p>\n
\neBook: 10
\nAudio: 2
\nPaperback: 1
\nHardback: 1<\/p>\n
\nRe-read: 8<\/p>\n
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\nAs for the genres I was reading:
\nMystery:11
\nFantasy:4
\nAnthology:1
\nComic:1
\nRomance:1<\/p>\n
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\nAnd these are the books I rated 8\/10 or higher (7\/10 is a good and enjoyable book, but nothing special):<\/p>\n
\nThe Privilege of the Sword<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n
\nWalking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
\nHard Spell<\/a><\/em>
\nDeath at La Fenice<\/a><\/em>
\nA Plague of Zombies<\/a><\/em>
\nLord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade<\/a><\/em>
\nLord John and the Hand of Devil<\/a>s<\/em>
\nLord John and the Private Matter<\/a><\/em>
\nThe Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n