Even better than making a list of the books I read, I’ve decided that I need a little reminder of what they were about and if I liked them. Here’s what I read in July and even though the month just ended, I’m having a hard time figuring out if I’m missing anything.
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Estes
She restates her thesis over and over again, but this was a pretty interesting book. Estes looks at myths and archetypes and deconstructs them to illustrate how they were built to teach lessons on being an “authentic” wild woman.
Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar
I picked this up in a bookstore in DUMBO when I went to Brooklyn last month. I thought it sounded cute and light and Neil Gaiman wrote the intro, which I thought might mean more than it did. Fairy wars in NYC, some predictably odd humans, eh - I can’t really recommend it.
Waiting - Ha Jin
I had a good long sob when I finished this. Communist Chinese culture wrapped around a love story that was sad, slow and sweet.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
While Book 6 made me cry, this one was just way too predictable and neat. I was reading this during our trip to the west coast and a lady at breakfast mentioned something about Potter dying. I thought she might be spoiling it and was fairly impressed that it might really end that way. Sadly, no.
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
I like these books. This one had fewer investigations and more detail about Precious’ life, but that was OK.
The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl
Pearl used fictional characters to investigate the last 5 days of Edgar A. Poe’s life, the details of which are apparently not known. This was a little bit Devil in the White City and a little bit Alienist, and I liked those two books better than this one. To the book’s credit, I am now much more interested in picking up some Poe, especially the Dupin stories, since I love me a good detective story!
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