July with a Bang
Posted: 2017/07/06 | Author: gr4c5 | Filed under: E-Books, Early Review, Fiction, NonFiction | Tags: Bill Goldstein, biography, books, Brenda Wineapple, DE Stevenson, DH Lawrence, Early Review, EM Forster, Fiction, henry james, Jack Higgins, Laurie Lee, Leon Edel, librarything, lists, Nathaniel Hawthorne, NonFiction, ocean, series, Sharon Adams, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf, world war ii |Leave a commentThe one good thing about July is that I am starting to train for a half mara in October. I am praying this gets me out of my funk…
Here are the books:
Fiction:
- The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins ~ in honor of Higgins’s birth month
- Anna and Her Daughters by DE Stevenson ~ in honor of July being Ice Cream Month (this is further explained in the book review).
Nonfiction:
- Hawthorne: a Life by Brenda Wineapple ~ in honor of Hawthorne’s birth month
- Pacific Lady by Sharon Adams ~ in honor of July being Ocean Month
Series Continuations:
- Henry James: the Middle Years by Leon Edel (didn’t finish in June) ~ to continue the series started in April in honor of James’s birth month.
- A Moment of War by Laurie Lee ~ to continue the series started in honor of April’s Madrid festival.
Early Review for LibraryThing:
- The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Change Literature by Bill Goldstein