{"id":17131,"date":"2022-08-07T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2022-08-07T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:12:46","slug":"the-books-of-july-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/17131","title":{"rendered":"The Books of July"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>July was busy, and slipped past me when I wasn\u2019t paying attention.<\/p>\n

A fair amount of rereading this month, because I\u2019ve been feeling extra vulnerable. But I did manage some new reads, including two new releases!<\/p>\n

Dianne Freeman<\/a>\u2019s latest book, Countess of Harleigh, A Bride\u2019s Guide to Marriage and Murder<\/em><\/a> is a series I\u2019ve very much been enjoying and enjoyed this book as much as the previous ones. And I was finally able to borrow An Impossible Impostor<\/em><\/a> from the library. I like this series, but not quite as much as the other, and Deanna Raybourn is popular enough I don\u2019t fear that series ending any time soon.<\/p>\n

Although it wasn\u2019t one of my favorite books, I appreciated Andrew Grey\u2019s Twice Baked<\/em><\/a> for some of the twists it did NOT take.<\/p>\n

Speaking of books that stuck with me, I reread Dahlia Donovan\u2019s Sin Bin series, and was as drawn into as much this time as I was the first read\u2014far more than the average rating I gave it, which had to do more with the need for editing and the inconsistencies that stemmed from that than anything else. These stories did all sorts of unusual things, including one book with an unflinching look at chemotherapy and dealing with cancer, and another book that was about a rescued man and the years it took him to recover himself (and the patience of the man courting him). Both of these stories faced difficult topics, but did so with sensitivity, and I deeply cared about what happened to the characters.<\/p>\n

There were also some disappointing books, but the rereads made up for it.<\/p>\n

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\"An<\/a><\/p>\n

Mystery, Historical<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Thief-Takers by Alissa Johnson<\/a>
\nA Talent for Trickery<\/em><\/a> (2015) 8.5\/10, A Gift for Guile<\/em><\/a> (2016) 8.5\/10, A Dangerous Deceit<\/em><\/a> (2017) 8\/10
\nA Bride\u2019s Guide to Marriage and Murder<\/em><\/a> (2022) Dianne Freeman<\/a> (Countess of Harleigh Mystery) 8\/10
\nAn Impossible Impostor<\/em><\/a> (2022) Deanna Raybourn<\/a> (Veronica Speedwell) 8\/10<\/p>\n

Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Renovated to Death<\/em><\/a> (2022) Frank Anthony Polito
\nMurder in Pastel<\/em><\/a> (2015) Josh Lanyon<\/a> 7\/10<\/p>\n

Science Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fugitive Telemetry<\/em><\/a> (2021) Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries) 9.5\/10<\/p>\n

Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sin Bin by Dahlia Donovan
\nAfter the Scrum<\/em><\/a> (2016) 8\/10, The Wanderer<\/em><\/a> (2017) 8\/10, The Caretaker<\/em><\/a> (2017) 7.5\/10, The Botanist<\/em><\/a> (2017) 7.5\/10, The Royal Marine<\/em><\/a> (2017), The Unexpected Santa<\/em><\/a> (2017),
\nThe Lion Tamer<\/em><\/a> (2018) 7.5\/10
\nColor of You<\/em><\/a> (2017) C.S. Poe<\/a> (A Lancaster Story) 7.5\/10
\nTwice Baked<\/em><\/a> (2019) Andrew Grey 7\/10
\nThe Cubby Hole: A Bear Camp Short<\/em><\/a> (2022) Slade James<\/a> 7\/10<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/a>Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House in the Cerulean Sea<\/em><\/a> (2020) TJ Klune<\/a> 9\/10<\/p>\n

Non Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History<\/em><\/a> (2018) Catharine Arnold<\/p>\n

Audio Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soulwood, Audio Edition by Faith Hunter<\/a> narrated by Khristine Hvam
\nFlame in the Dark<\/em><\/a>, Audio Edition (2017) 8.5\/10, Circle of the Moon, Audio Edition<\/em><\/a> (2019), Spells for the Dead, Audio Edition<\/em><\/a> (2019) 7\/10<\/p>\n

I know I haven’t been doing stats recently, but as a quick update: I’m at 140 books for the year, which is a lot slower than the past several years, but that’s still 20 books a month. And I’m at about 35% rereads, which is down from last year where almost 50% of the books I read were rereads, which is possibly a sign I’m starting to feel a little better. <\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

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July was busy, and slipped past me when I wasn\u2019t paying attention. A fair amount of rereading this month, because I\u2019ve been feeling extra vulnerable. But I did manage some new reads, including two new releases! Dianne Freeman\u2019s latest book, Countess of Harleigh, A Bride\u2019s Guide to Marriage and Murder is a series I\u2019ve very […]<\/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-17131","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-4sj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131","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=17131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}