August books

1. The Iron King, *Julie Kagawa


2. Cast in Moonlight, *Michelle Sagara (novella)


3. *Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
   I didn't much care for this. It was a dysfunctional-family novel written in tiny vignettes which changed from first person to third person to first person plural. None of the characters except one ever got a name. I don't know why that one character was named while all others were either initials or 'the wife', 'the husband', 'the baby'.


4. *The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
   I didn't much like this one either. Almost abandoned it several times. Bleak, depressing tour of rural Southern poverty in the early part of the 20th century, and nothing much actually happens.


5. Bring Up the Bodies, *Hilary Mantel
   The sequel to last month's _Wolf Hall_, and the author has done better with clarifying her pronoun antecedents, if only by phrases like "he, Thomas Cromwell,..." Still, it helps. In this installment, Henry VIII is tired of Anne Boleyn and TC has to find a way to get rid of her to make way for Jane Seymour.


6. The Iron Daughter, *Julie Kagawa


7. The End of All Things, John Scalzi
   On paper, OMG!


8. Uprooted, Naomi Novik
   Paper again...that's the first time since at least March I've read two books on paper in a row. Also, this book is very very good. The magic of receiving what the universe is offering...something I need to learn.


9. *Ripper, Isabel Allende


10. *Open City, Teju Cole
    Abandoned at 14%. The old-fashioned writing style and the modern day setting didn't gel for me, not much was happening, and I was just bored. I did set it to renew and may give it another try before its next due date.


11. Cursor's Fury, Jim Butcher (audio)


12. Cast in Peril, *Michelle Sagara


13. The Iron Queen, *Julie Kagawa


14. *Station Eleven, Emily St.John Mandel


15. The Hum and the Shiver, Alex Bledsoe


16. A Wisp of a Thing, Alex Bledsoe


17. Long Black Curl, Alex Bledsoe


18. The Iron Knight, *Julie Kagawa


19. Cast in Sorrow, *Michelle Sagara


20. Cast in Flame, *Michelle Sagara


21. Working for Bigfoot, Jim Butcher