What are we reading in August?

I started the month with Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echols and am now moving on to True Grit.

I'm enjoying the very dark Still Missing.

Given up on the golden notebook just finding excuses not to read and that's never good/sustainable so have started the last banquet instead

Indulging in a reread of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

LMAO with Where'd You Go, Bernadette!

I'm reading Interred With Their Bones and The Small House at Allington, and I'm still working on Sacred Scripture, Sacred War. I'm still listening to 1222.

I've finished The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver, in the middle of The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart, and am starting Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times by Amanda Hesser

Almost finished with Gillespie & I.

Enjoyed Where'd You Go, Bernadette and have gotten serious again with The Yellow Birds.

I'm reading The Invention of Air and The Guns of August and will probably read the next Sandman this coming week.

I'm listening to David Jeremiah's I Never Thought I'd See the Day. I'm reading How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart and Six Women of Salem by Marilynne Roach. (The latter one is a NetGalley ARC.) I'm probably going to start The Vicar's Wife By Katharine Swartz either tomorrow or Monday, and I'm planning to read a Kindle single Blueberry Blues by Karen MacInerney after I arrive in Charleston tomorrow night to put me in the mood for my vacation, even if it is set much further north on the coast.

5> I have Where'd You Go, Bernadette? borrowed on my Kindle. Might have to move that higher on the to-read list.

I'm currently listening to Thirteen Reasons Why on audiobook and reading . . . I forget what I'm actually reading. That can't be good! LOL.

I'm listening to Arcadia Awakens which is some sort of YA paranormal mixed up with Sicilian mafia...I'll keep going. I'm reading Gormenghast and nineteen seventy four and have started a few others.

I've finished Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times by Amanda Hesser and am starting Charm City by Laura Lippmann and continuing with The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart.

I've just started A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson.

I enjoyed Still Missing, now I'm on an Easy Rawlins kick: I've started Gone Fishin and have Bad Boy Brawly Brown and Little Scarlet close by. I have a feeling I will plow right through them.

Reading all sorts of books:

The Guns of August
Life After Life
First Family
Rabbit Redux
The Devotion of Suspect X

Finishing off the Sandman group read with The wake. Then it's back to Avalon...

Just started gormenghast for the group read after finishing the last banquet and eat him if you like

I should be finishing The Hour I First Believed soon. It's an odd book with pretty annoying characters and lots of digressions, but strangely compelling. I'm also reading Those Who Save Us. I picked it up solely on a recommendation to discover that parts of it center around WWII - not exactly summer read material.

Zipping through my TBR list at home. Got more rejects that I couldn't finish. Just finished up Princess of Glass today.

I'm reading Unless and listening to Hamlet. Still working on Sacred Scripture, Sacred War and The Small House at Allington.

How are you liking the Trollope? And who's narrating Hamlet?

So far I don't like this Trollope as well as any of the others in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. I've only read about 7 chapters though.

The Hamlet is an L.A. Theater Works production. It's a little odd hearing Stephen Collins as Claudius since I watched him play a minister on Seventh Heaven for so many years.

Just finished Small Ceremonies by Shields and will start The Box Garden next as it's apparently linked.

I just finished The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West and am now reading Shadows Cast by Stars, a YA Native American fantasy dystopia.

Know what you mean about that, Carrie. I was watching a little excerpt from Macbeth and recognized the MC as someone I knew from Sue Thomas, F. B. Eye!

I am enjoying my comfort re-reads of Anne of Avonlea and Dragonfly in Amber.

Finished Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple which was very entertaining. I didn't like the very, very end, but overall found it unputdownable.

Just started The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. It's already overdue from the library. Thought I could just read the first few pages and decide that it wasn't something I needed to read right now . . . I was wrong.

Finished The Guns of August which seemed to take forever even though I enjoyed it very much. Am working on W. D. Howells' Indian summer and looking at Objects of desire, a book about the American antiques trade.

I've finished Charm City by Laura Lippman and am going to start Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins. I'm still reading The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart but not finding it engrossing so I find myself putting it aside for something else.

I finished The Hangman's Daughter with lots of torture and head conking. Apparently the author has a trove of family history to mine for these stories. I've started the sequel, The Dark Monk and hope the torture (while historically relevant) is featured less.

This weekend I'm reading The Lady Vanishes. I just finished the audio of Hamlet and I've started the audio of The Postmistress. I'm nearly halfway through with Unless. I'm reading The Small House at Allington for a group read at the rate of a chapter or two a day, and I'm still plugging away at Sacred Scripture, Sacred War.

I've finished both Bring on the Blessings and the sequel A Second Helping by Beverly Jenkins. Now I think I'll go back to The Stone Carvers and finish that one.

I just finished the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb, which I totally loved. Now I'm reading The Song of the Vikings.

After I finshed Still Missing, I devoured three Easy Rawlins books in about 3 days: A Little Yellow Dog, Bad Boy Brawly Brown, and Little Scarlet. Now I'm reading Citizen Vince and Dead Days of Summer.

I've decided to also start The Promise of Lumby by Gail Fraser. It's not that The Stone Carvers is bad, it's just that I'm looking for books that are a little more "fun".

>35 cmbohn:, I read Song of the Vikings last year when it came out and found it really interesting. Hopefully you'll enjoy it.

I finished A Little Princess, which was just the comfort read I needed, and am starting on George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, his memoir of the Spanish Civil War.

Paying another visit to Bishop's Lacey with Speaking from Among the Bones, by Alan Bradley.

I've finished the excellent and quirky Border Songs by Jim Lynch (who knew Canadians were such outlaws?) and am now tremendously enjoying A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female noir edited (but not including a story by) the amazing Megan Abbott.

I just finished A Game of Thrones and had so much fun that I'll go on directly to A Clash of Kings.

I'm starting Lauren Willig's latest book, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. When I went to the bookstore to buy it, I couldn't find it right away, so I had to ask a salesperson. He was like, "What's the title of the book you're looking for?" Yeah, that was embarrassing.

I'm just about finished with Dead Days of Summer and about to start Let Me Go the latest in the Gretchen and Archie series. It sounds like fun Gretchen on the loose near Halloween and Archie celebrating his birthday.

Oh, I want to read Let Me Go! It just came out today.

Reading The Guns of August, Rabbit Redux and The Three Musketeers (still plugging along on that one!)

still ploughing through gormenghast but taking a while as also drawn into the world of Last of Us on the playstation...

Finished The Promise of Lumby and have picked up On What Grounds.

I'm about to start The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees.

I am finally nearing the end of Dragonfly in Amber with just a new hours left to listen to. This long book and (dare I say it) a slight reading slump has cut into my reading time during the last week. I have started The Keeper of Lost Causes which I hope will pull me out of my slump.

I just finished Decision at Delphi which was probably a lot more enjoyable back in 1958 when it was released. Now it's pretty dated. It's set in a Greece struggling with the consequences of WWII and the partisan fighting that went on. The big bad guy is a nihilist who's allied himself with some Communists. Out of date technology, out of date gender roles, and the book was falling apart.

So why did I read it? Because it was my dad's. It had his name written in his handwriting on the front page too. After I was finished with it, the first few pages were falling out so I had to throw it away, but I have some of his other favorites left. I can't believe how much it hurts every time I think about him.

I'm taking what I think is my last break from The mists of Avalon before reading the concluding part. Having a blast in the intermission with George Saunder's Tenth of december. Thank you so much Kay!

Oh, I'm glad you're enjoying it, especially given that I would not have read it in the first place were you not such a vocal fan of Saunders's short stories.

I've finished A Hell of a Woman, which is a selection of female-centered noir. It's put together by Megan Abbott, which means that it kept true to its mandate; the stories were both excellent and hard-boiled.

I'm finishing up The Portrait of a Lady, late for the group read, but it's turning into something that's very hard to put down. I'm going to start The Heart is a Lonely Hunter tomorrow and I'm enjoying In Europe, Geert Mak's informal history of Europe in the twentieth century. I'm up to the beginning of World War I.

Still working on Homage to Catalonia, but I've read and reviewed Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge about expatriates in 1930s China, which I really liked. Bridge is a master of description and always gives the reader lots to think about.

I've also begun Amin Maalouf's The First Century after Beatrice, speculative fiction about a future in which men can take a pill to guarantee they'll father only male children. Suffice to say it's not the miracle it was promised to be.

I'm readiing Jalna by Mazo De La Roche which is part of a series about a multi-generaltional Canadian family and these books were very popular in Canada during the 1930's and 40's. I am also reading I Am Algonguin for the ER Program, and today started Still Missing by Chevy Stevens for the August AwardCats.

I've just started Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman for the group read.

I'm still reading The Small House at Allington for the group read. Nowthat I have my replacement iPod I can finish listening to The Postmistress. I'm also reading Dead End in Norvelt while I recuperate from nose and throat surgery. My nose is still bleeding a bit, and the protagonist in DEiN suffers from frequent nosebleeds. I can empathize with him!

Just started reading Christian Nation by Frederic Rich.

I'm halfway (or so) through A Clash of Kings and am also listening to Iain Banks' Stonemouth, which has a not-great reader, but the story is very engaging so it works.

I'm back into NOS4A2: A Novel and I may never look at Christmas the same way
again.

I'm doing a Dark-Hunter mini-marathon. I want to be ready for Styxx which is coming out next month. I've finished Dream Warrior and Bad Moon Rising and just started No Mercy.

Still stumbling along in a very misty Avalon.

Reading House of Silk and rained in whilst RVing at the beach.

Finished Blessed are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch and am determined to finish The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart this weekend.

I finished The Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman yesterday.

Today if all goes to plan I will finish off How a Gunman Says Goodbye, the second in Malcolm MacKay's "Glasgow trilogy" (great underworld story, not much local colour -- if you want Glasgow colour I'd suggest Christopher Brookmyre).

Have about 100 pages left of Life After Life. Hope to finish tomorrow.

How did you like True Grit, @christina_reads?

It's been a slow month for my reading, but I have managed to keep chugging along:

Hit Parade of Horse Stories
The War Within These Walls (EXCELLENT!!!)
I Am Algonquin
Dogsong
Red Dog

The War Within These Walls and I Am Algonquin were both Early Reviewer books. I highly recommend the former.

I'm currently enjoying Miss Buncle's Book.

fuzzi, I really liked True Grit! And Miss Buncle's Book is lovely also...hope you enjoy it!

Really looking forward to seeing what you think of Miss Buncle's book. What a perfect summer read!

I finished Miss Buncle's Book, and here is my review:

This is a delightful gem of a book, full of subtle humor regarding the inhabitants of a small English village during the early 1900's. The main character is an unassuming spinster who discovers her modest income diminishing to a point where she can no longer pay for her most basic needs. In order to make ends meet she decides to write a book...about the only thing she knows...the people of the village. And even though she changes their names, once the book is published, it causes a commotion as everyone tries to discover who in their midst wrote "such lies"!

Now that I've read this book, I discovered that the cost of sequels is rather high...

I'm reading Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music which is an ER book and Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman. Obviously way behind for the group read on that one, but finally getting to it anyway!

I finished The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart and have started An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson

Have read on (a very busy) vacation - the violent century by Lavie Tidhar, immobility by Brian Evenson, all the little animals by Walker Hamilton and have just started on the plane on the way home the lighthouse stevensons by Bella Bathurst

I'm revisiting Goldy in The Whole Enchilada while also trying to finish Boundary Waters.

I'm trying to finish A Clash of Kings before the end of August so that I can include those 1,000+ pages into my August statistics. :) Yes, I know that's silly. I also have Templar out from the library, so I'll be attacking that one after GRRM.

I am closing out August with News From Thrush Green by Miss Read a gentle read about rural Britain in the 1950's, and for something completely different, a zombie book, The Fear by Charlie Higson.

Dammit I'm hooked on another series... Cold Granite has reeled me in.

#77 by @rabbitprincess> hahaha! good for you. I loved it too.

Rabbit - I read it earlier this year and plan to continue with the series also. So don't feel you're alone....

RP--the series is good! Of course you liked it.

I've been distracted with Denise Mina's newest, The Red Road, except I have misplaced it with just a few pages to go.

I've been unsettled in my reading, beginning books and setting them aside for the next one. The stack is growing taller and taller. I guess I just keep going until I get back in the groove, or I'm beaned by that giant pile of books begun falling on me?

But once you get in the mood to finish books, Kay, you'll rush through all of them and feel so accomplished:)

I'm currently reading The Big Over Easy and tryingto get back into the audio of The Postmistress now that I have my replacement iPod.

I am thoroughly enjoying Seabiscuit! I hope to finish it by Saturday midnight.

I have been reading nothing but Virago this month. Virago & Virago fiction. I have enjoyed:
Good Daughters,
Indifferent Heroes,
Welcome Strangers,
The Other Woman,
The Orchid House,
The Lifted Veil,
High Rising,
The Yellow Wallpaper,
The Clothes on Their Backs,
The Very Dead of Winter,
The Newspaper of Claremont Street, & am currently finishing
The Aloe.
When I finish that one I will begin either a Barbara Pym Virago or The Bolter.
August has been a month of rewarding reading for me.

>75 -Eva-: I'm totallt like that, too! Only with number of titles a month rather than pages. When I fail though, spilling into next month, I take comfort in the fact I get a fab start for that month: BAM! Nosebreaker done by the third!

I'm starting Busman's honeymoon today. It'll be my second Sayers ever.

FINALLY finished Devil's Brood, so I'm finishing the month with Georgette Heyer's Behold, Here's Poison.

->85 GingerbreadMan:
That's true. Or graphic novels to the rescue for us "counters." :) We are a silly bunch.

I've another hour left on Stonemouth (audio), which I should be able to finish today (another one for the August summary...), but haven't settled on what'll follow.