So what did I read in August? A pretty even split between fantasy and mystery.<\/p>\n
As always, the book title will take you to my review of that book, the author name will take you to a list of books by that author, and Amazon links will give me a penny or two if you click through and buy.<\/p>\n
Mystery<\/strong> I love Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti and Venice and the food–ah the food. <\/p>\n I love Sergei Lukyanenko’s Night Watch series. For me, the second book is the weakest in the series, but it’s still quiet good, and one you have to read.<\/p>\n Carrie Vaughn and Ilona Andrews are both authors that I automatically pre-order, because I’m almost never let down.<\/p>\n I had this for awhile before I read it, mostly because it was a large, heavy book.<\/p>\n So that’s fifteen books, nine of which were re-reads, three of which were pre-ordered new releases.<\/p>\n I think for the first time this year, I read more paper books than ebooks, due entirely to the re-reads and the pre-ordered new releases.<\/p>\n Paperback: 6 As to the genre break down, fantasy won out this month, but just barely.<\/p>\n Fantasy: 10 So what did I read in August? A pretty even split between fantasy and mystery. As always, the book title will take you to my review of that book, the author name will take you to a list of books by that author, and Amazon links will give me a penny or two if you […]<\/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-10871","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-2Pl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","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=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDeath in a Strange Country<\/a><\/em> (1993) Donna Leon <\/a>
\nDressed for Death<\/a><\/em> (1994) Donna Leon <\/a>
\nDeath and Judgment<\/a><\/em> (1995) Donna Leon <\/a>
\nAcqua Alta<\/a><\/em> (1996) Donna Leon<\/a>
\nThe Fencing Master<\/a><\/em> (1988) Arturo P\u00e9rez-Reverte<\/a> translated by Margaret Jull Costa <\/p>\n
\nFantasy<\/strong>
\nNight Watch<\/a><\/em> (1998\/2006) Sergei Lukyanenko<\/a> translated by Andrew Bromfield
\nDay Watch<\/a><\/em> (1999\/2007) Sergei Lukyanenko<\/a> translated by Andrew Bromfield
\nTwilight Watch<\/a><\/em> (2003\/2007) Sergei Lukyanenko<\/a> translated by Andrew
\nLast Watch<\/a><\/em> (2009) Sergei Lukyanenko<\/a> translated by Andrew Bromfield
\nFade to Black<\/a><\/em> (2013) Francis Knight<\/a>
\nEvil Dark<\/a><\/em> (2012) Justin Gustainis<\/a>
\nKitty in the Underworld<\/a><\/em> (2013) Carrie Vaughn<\/a>
\nMagic Rises<\/a><\/em> (2013) Ilona Andrews<\/a> <\/p>\n
\nAnthology<\/strong>
\nWeird Detectives: Recent Investigations<\/a><\/em> (2013) edited by Paula Guran <\/a><\/p>\n
\nComics\/Graphic Novel<\/strong>
\nFairest<\/a> Vol. 2: Hidden Kingdom<\/a><\/em> (2013) Lauren Beukes, Bill Willingham<\/a>, Inaki Miranda <\/p>\n
\nTrade Paperback: 6
\neBook: 3
\nRe-read: 9<\/p>\n
\nMystery: 8
\nAnthology: 1
\nComic: 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"