Little late, but then I thought I’d already done this post.<\/p>\n
I read a LOT of crap I didn’t much like last month. Mostly a mystery series I kept thinking would get better, but didn’t. <\/p>\n
Luckily, I also read some really good books. Like: If you haven’t read Charles de Lint, he is one of my all-time favorite authors. He writes marvelous short stories that–despite being full of darkness–are uplifting and usually make me feel better about myself and the world. And Jane Lindskold’s urban fantasy is also strange and wonderful.<\/p>\n Urban Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n Tapping the Dream Tree<\/a><\/em> (2002) Charles de Lint<\/a> (9.5\/10) Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories<\/a><\/em> (<\/em>2008 (except where noted) \/ 2016) Andrea Camilleri<\/a> translated by Stephen Sartarelli (8\/10)<\/p>\n YA Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n Sabriel<\/a><\/em> (1995) Garth Nix<\/a> (10\/10)<\/p>\n Historical Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n Your Scandalous Ways<\/a><\/em> (2008) Loretta Chase (7\/10) Historical Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n Lady of the Ashes<\/a><\/em> (2013) Christine Trent (5.5\/10) <\/p>\n Audio Book<\/strong><\/p>\n The Grendel Affair<\/em>, Audible Version<\/a> (2013\/2014) Lisa Shearin<\/a>, narrated by Johanna Parker (8\/10) I read 15 books in June, which is a lot, but I’ve been having major anxiety issues, so lots of escaping. <\/p>\n Nothing but eBooks and audio books this month–in fact, aside from cookbooks (which I really need to review, but haven’t) I haven’t read a single paper book this year.<\/p>\n Genre was a bit more variety than previous months<\/p>\n Fantasy : 7 And male authors caught up a tiny bit this month, with 5 male authors and 9 female authors…and that doesn’t add up to 15. So, 5 and 10. Male authors still haven’t caught up much, since I’m at 15% male and 85% female authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Little late, but then I thought I’d already done this post. I read a LOT of crap I didn’t much like last month. Mostly a mystery series I kept thinking would get better, but didn’t. Luckily, I also read some really good books. Like: The Dark Side of The Road by Simon R. Green (8\/10) […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","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-3ll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855","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=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Dark Side of The Road<\/em> by Simon R. Green (8\/10) which is a stand-alone urban fantasy. Montalbano\u2019s First Case and Other Stories<\/em> by Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli (8\/10) is a collection of Montalbano short stories. I re-read two Charles de Lint anthologies, Tapping the Dream Tree<\/em> (9.5\/10) and Muse and Reverie<\/em> (10\/10). And re-reads of Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls<\/em> by Jane Lindskold (9\/10) and Sabriel <\/em>by Garth Nix (10\/10).<\/p>\n
\n Muse and Reverie<\/a><\/em> (2009) Charles de Lint<\/a> (10\/10)
\n Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls<\/a><\/em> (1994) Jane Lindskold<\/a> (9\/10)
\n The Dark Side of The Road<\/a><\/em> (2015) Simon R. Green<\/a> (8\/10)<\/p>\n
\n The Mystery Woman<\/a><\/em> (2013) Amanda Quick (6\/10)<\/p>\n
\n In Milady’s Chamber<\/a><\/em> (2006) Sheri Cobb South<\/a> (6\/10)
\n A Dead Bore<\/a><\/em> (2008) Sheri Cobb South<\/a> (6.5\/10)
\n Family Plot<\/a><\/em> (2014) Sheri Cobb South<\/a> (6\/10)
\n Dinner Most Deadly<\/a><\/em> (2015) Sheri Cobb South<\/a> (5\/10)<\/p>\n
\n Black Arts<\/a><\/em> audible version (2014) Faith Hunter<\/a>, narrated by Khristine Hvam (8\/10)<\/p>\n
\nMystery : 6
\nRomance : 2
\nYA : 1
\nAnthology : 2<\/p>\n