It’s barely August and I’m posting about the books of July! Shocking!<\/p>\n
Only nine books read this month, but that’s because I spent a week on vacation with many wonderful small people, and by the time I went to bed every night, I fell right to sleep. On the other hand, I’m still dealing with stress and anxiety, so I did a fair amount of re-reading and reaching for favorite authors. But despite “slacking off” this month, I’ve already read more than 100 books this year.<\/p>\n
My favorite books of the month were two re-reads: A Matter of Magic<\/a><\/em> by Patricia C. Wrede, American Gods<\/a><\/em> by Neil Gaiman, and Charles de Lint I had not previously read: Someplace to Be Flying<\/a><\/em>. I really love Charles de Lint–he is possibly the best short story author I’ve read, and he does a fantastic job writing female chracters.<\/p>\n Historical Fantasy (YA)<\/strong> Urban Fantasy<\/strong> Supernatural Fantasy<\/strong> Historical Mystery<\/strong> Historical Romance<\/strong> I read all ebooks–aside from cookbooks, which I haven’t gotten around to reviewing, I haven’t read a single paper book this year.<\/p>\n Here’s the genre break-down: And the gender break-down: But male authors are still really far behind this year, at only 18% of the books I’ve read so far.<\/p>\n And those are the books of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s barely August and I’m posting about the books of July! Shocking! Only nine books read this month, but that’s because I spent a week on vacation with many wonderful small people, and by the time I went to bed every night, I fell right to sleep. On the other hand, I’m still dealing with […]<\/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-12908","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-3mc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12908","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=12908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n A Matter of Magic<\/a><\/em> (2010): Mairelon the Magician<\/em> (1991) and The Magician’s Ward<\/em> (1997) Patricia C. Wrede (10\/10)<\/p>\n
\n American Gods<\/a><\/em> (2001) Neil Gaiman (10\/10)
\n Someplace to Be Flying<\/a><\/em> (1998) Charles de Lint (9\/10)
\n Newford Stories: Crow Girls<\/a><\/em> (2015) Charles de Lint
\n Moonlight & Vines<\/a><\/em> (1999) Charles de Lint <\/p>\n
\n Chaos Choreography<\/a><\/em> (2016) Seanan McGuire (6\/10)<\/p>\n
\n As Death Draws Near<\/a><\/em> (2016) Anna Lee Huber (8.5\/10)<\/p>\n
\n A Gift for Guile<\/a><\/em> (2016) Alissa Johnson (8\/10)
\n To Charm a Naughty Countess<\/a><\/em> (2014) Theresa Romain (6\/10)<\/p>\n
\nFantasy : 6
\nMystery : 2
\nRomance : 3
\nYA : 1
\nAnthology : 2<\/p>\n
\nMale : 4
\nFemale : 5<\/p>\n