Because I’m still up to my eyeballs in this hiring thing I have a huge, ambitious list but I doubt I’ll actually get to all of them. I ended up with two classics, though:
- The Reivers by William Faulkner ~ in honor of Southern Gospel month
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ~ in honor of (supposedly) the best time to visit Kafka’s homeland, the Czech Republic
- The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCullough ~ in honor of hurricane season (and we’ve already had two blow up the coast)
- Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler ~ in honor of “real character” month (guess I’ll have to elaborate on that during the review. Even I’m not sure what I mean by that!
- Out of the Blue: the Story of September 11, 2001 From Jihad to Ground Zero by Richard Bernstein ~ need I say why?
- Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby in honor of National Travel Month
For LibraryThing Early Review – just got word that I received one for September. Yay. I won’t name the book until it actually shows up on my doorstep. I’ve had two no-shows so far and nothing is more disappointing that planning to read an exciting book and not have it arrive! 😦
For fun ~ nada. Although I heard Monhegan made it into Yankee magazine. I’ll have to check that out at some point.
~*LunaSea*~ 