A bit late in writing this one, due in part to August being such a slow month for reading that at one point I contemplated just combining it with the September reads in case this month was slow as well (it's not, as will be seen in 9-10 days). Only 14 books read this month, my lowest number in a long time. Fallen behind on three of my four reading goals (but have since caught up in September), but there's still hope for meeting all of them by December 31st. Here's the list:
197 NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Booker Prize finalist; will review in early October)
198 Jim Crace, Harvest (another Booker Prize finalist to review in early October)
199 Colum McCann, TransAtlantic (longlisted for the Booker Prize; very good but not his best work)
200 Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary (yet another Booker Prize finalist to review in early October)
201 Matt Bell, In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods (already reviewed)
202 Carolyn Dalgliesh, The Sensory Child Gets Organized: Proven Systems for Rigid, Anxious, or Distracted Kids (review forthcoming; non-fiction)
203 Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems (poetry; disturbing – in a way fitting for Ligotti – yet good)
204 Martín Arias and Martin Hadis (eds.), Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature (already reviewed)
205 Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (very good)
206 Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump (non-fiction; review forthcoming)
207 Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (very good)
208 David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not (non-fiction; excellent collection of reviews and essays)
209 Fainna Solasko, Kutkha the Raven (re-read; very good)
210 Philipp Meyer, The Son (already reviewed)
Reading Goal Updates:
Overall: 210/366 (behind 32 books for the goal of reading 1 book/day + one)
Women writers: 73/210 (3 above 33% goal, but only 4/14 this month)
Foreign language: 64/100 (unchanged from last month; behind goal by 3)
Spanish: 31/50 (unchanged from last month; behind goal by 2)
197 NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Booker Prize finalist; will review in early October)
198 Jim Crace, Harvest (another Booker Prize finalist to review in early October)
199 Colum McCann, TransAtlantic (longlisted for the Booker Prize; very good but not his best work)
200 Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary (yet another Booker Prize finalist to review in early October)
201 Matt Bell, In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods (already reviewed)
202 Carolyn Dalgliesh, The Sensory Child Gets Organized: Proven Systems for Rigid, Anxious, or Distracted Kids (review forthcoming; non-fiction)
203 Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems (poetry; disturbing – in a way fitting for Ligotti – yet good)
204 Martín Arias and Martin Hadis (eds.), Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature (already reviewed)
205 Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (very good)
206 Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump (non-fiction; review forthcoming)
207 Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (very good)
208 David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not (non-fiction; excellent collection of reviews and essays)
209 Fainna Solasko, Kutkha the Raven (re-read; very good)
210 Philipp Meyer, The Son (already reviewed)
Reading Goal Updates:
Overall: 210/366 (behind 32 books for the goal of reading 1 book/day + one)
Women writers: 73/210 (3 above 33% goal, but only 4/14 this month)
Foreign language: 64/100 (unchanged from last month; behind goal by 3)
Spanish: 31/50 (unchanged from last month; behind goal by 2)
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