July AlphakKIT: W and T

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July letters are W and T:
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For W, I think "Lethal White" by Robert Galbraith and for T, Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck

I'm going to try and read Nature's Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy for "T" and Frost in May by Antonia White and Meet Me in Atlantic City by Jane Wong for "W".

I'm definitely planning on All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes for my 'W' book, but have so many choices for 'T', I may decide that one at the last moment.

I am planning to read Will There Be Wine? which will cover both letters.

Planning to cover both letters with Gilligan's Wake by Tom Carson.

I am planning on reading Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree by Margaret Thornton and The Moon of Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice.

Here's my possibilities!
Currently Reading
✅ completed

Everlasting by Kathleen Woodiwiss
✅Murder at the Ponte Vecchio by T.A. Williams
✅Murder in the Tuscan Hill by T.A. Williams
✅ Murder on an Italian Island by T.A. Williams
✅ MURDER ON THE MARLOW BELLE by Robert Thorogood
✅Tattered Cover
✅ Tight Rope
✅Whispers of Death
✅Whispers of Mystery

The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe W & T
I read this years ago and after reading another of Wolfe’s recently, decided on a reread. This was my review back then and nothing has changed. Micalief is a terrific character, star of this excellent series.

Another great mystery starring Detective Inspector Hazel Micalief that has an action-packed suspenseful ending. Wolfe has written a winning combination with a tough, tenacious female protagonist, a cast of well-developed characters, and an excellent plot. Even with Micalief's qualities there are some who consider the sixty-two year-old a dinosaur, and therefore dispensable. With her recent back surgery, she is fighting on a lot of fronts. This is a page-turner that the Canadian setting made even better.

I have finished a book for T: Frau Helbing und der tote Fagottist which is a charming cozy mystery.

For W read Snow so White by C. Gockel

Next book for T is Die Könige von Köln by Tilman Röhrig.

I read What a Fish Knows for W.

And today I finished This Will Be Funny Someday for T.

For T I read Trace by Patricia Cornwell

I've finiished Frost in May} by Antonia White for my "W".

Another T book is Der Sonnenfürst by Tilman Röhrig.

I covered both letters with Gilligan's Wake by Tom Carson.

I spent a wonderful afternoon reading All systems red by Martha Wells for W.

T & W : Teach us to Want by Jen Pollock Michel

For another T, Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor

August is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/372284

I have finished a few W books so far:
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
A Doggone Waterfront Shame by Rimmi London
And have two more in the works:
Off-White by Astrid Roemer
W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton

I have finished another T book: The trail of the serpent by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

COMPLETED Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck

COMPLETED Mudlark: Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem

Two more W books: All Systems Red and Artificial Condition by Martha Wells.

I just finished Broken Harbor by Tana French.

COMPLETED The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith for both letters.

I have completed both my reads for W and T with Moon of Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree by Margaret Thornton.

Another T: Alternate Tyrants, edited by Mike Resnick.

I finished another T: Real Tigers by Mick Herron.

Currently reading "The Last Word" by Elly Griffiths

Knocked out both letters in one!
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

Discussing primarily elephants, wolves, and killer whales, with some investigation of dogs, parrots, corvids, dolphins, and primates, Safina examines what it means to be "intelligent", "self-aware", and "empathetic". There is, Safina observes, a bias present in the scientific community when it comes to animal psychology and behaviourism. Out of fear of committing the cardinal sin of anthropomorphism, much of animal science has lost objectivity and began to deny or obfuscate observable phenomena in some animals. It seems some of us have forgotten that humans are animals, too. There is family, politics, culture, hardship, and complex emotional lives in the animal communities investigated in this book, and there is a healthy (though not overwhelming nor distracting) level of snark regarding double-standards that are applied differently for non-human animals than they are for humans.

For Authors: Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson and Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood.

For titles: Who Slays the Wicked.

My first W book was The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn.

COMPLETED The Last Word by Elly Griffiths

Finally finished a W book, Spirit of the Wood by Kristen Britain.

Starting "Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel" by Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff

Another T : Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark

For W, I also read The Golden Prince and Henry VIII - The Heart and the Crown by Alison Weir and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.

I ended up reading What Were the Roaring Twenties? which covers both letters.

I read another short story by Alison Weir: The True and Terrible Tale of Perotine Massey - both letters.

I read Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.

I read several Ts this month.
Everything is Tuberculosis
Ordinary Time
The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
and one W
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson

COMPLETED Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Finished Whale Fall today.

I have finished La Tapisserie de Bayeux, a small illustrated brochure about the famous depiction of the Norman Conquest.

I just read a book that works for both letters, Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell.

It was a good month for T and W--titles finished this month:

T:
The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward, Melinda French Gates (2025)
The Duke's Children, Anthony Trollope (1880)
Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy (1872)
The Life of Mendelssohn, Peter Mercer-Taylor (2000)

W
The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. von Goethe (1774)
The Life and Works of Jane Austen, Devoney Looser (2021)
His Excellency, George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis (2004)
Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories, D C Helmuth (2025)
Anne of Windy Poplars, L. M. Montgomery (1936)

One more book for both letters: Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear by Katharine Weber.

One last book for T is 1066 : Eroberung Englands durch die Normannen (that’s the year Tausendsechsundsechzig).

I actually read one more T book yesterday, Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas. A disappointing historical romance.