Travels of August

Since the Run for Nancy was only a few days ago I am still on a high from not only running four miles, but running four miles without pain. No pain whatsoever. The pain is so gone it’s as if I imagined the whole thing. Weird. Weird. Weird. As for books, since I don’t have any other running plans in the near future:

Fiction:

• The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe – in honor of August being Chick Lit month.
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay – in honor of Courtenay’s birth month being in August.
• Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts – in honor of August being Dream Month (hey, I read it somewhere).
• Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett – in honor of Dunnett’s birth month being in August.
• The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall – in honor of Rajir Ratna Gandhi’s birth in August.

Nonfiction:

• A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird – in honor of Colorado becoming a state in August.
• Eurydice Street: a Place in Athens by Sofka Zinovieff – in honor of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin.
• A Season in Red by Kirsty Needham – in honor of the Double Seven festival in China.

Series continuations:

• The Big Bad City by Ed McBain – to continue the series started in July.

If there is time:

Fiction:

• Under the Snow by Kerstin Ekman – in honor of Ekman’s birth month.
• Crazy Jack by Donna Jo Napoli – in honor of Fairy Tale Month.