August Books

Non-fiction 11 (YTD 52)
The Bloody Sunday report, Vol IX
The Bloody Sunday report, Vol X
A Viceroy’s Vindication? Sir Henry Sidney’s Memoir of Service in Ireland, 1556-78
Faith in Europe?, by Jean Vanier, Mary McAleese, Timothy Radcliffe, Bob Geldof, Chris Patten and Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture, by Charles King
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, by Thomas Merton
Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War, by Pete Earley
Back To The Vortex, by J Shaun Lyon
The Bookseller of Kabul, by Åsne Seierstad
Mistress Blanche: Queen Elizabeth I’s Confidante, by Ruth Elizabeth Richardson
Aké: the Years of Childhood, by Wole Soyinka

Non-genre fiction 5 (YTD 36)
Soul Mountain / 灵山, by Gao Xingjian
A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute
Dubliners, by James Joyce
The Rosary, by Florence Barclay
A Farewell To Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

SF (not Who) 9 (YTD 55)
Black Blade Blues, by J.A. Pitts
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Sinai Tapestry, by Edward Whittemore
Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, by David Day
A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
The Wizard Knight, by Gene Wolfe
Diaspora, by Greg Egan
The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett
Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman

Doctor Who 9 (YTD 46)
Longest Day, by Mike Collier
Doctor Who Annual 2011
Legacy of the Daleks, by John Peel
Wishing Well, by Trevor Baxendale
The King’s Dragon, by Una McCormack
The Ring of Steel, by Stephen Cole
The Pit, by Nigel Penswick
The Slitheen Excursion, by Simon Guerrier
Fallen Gods, by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman

Comics 3 (YTD 12)
With the Light… / 光とともに…, vol 2, by Keiko Tobe
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, by Bryan Lee O’Malley

8/37 (YTD 42/202) by women (McAleese, Seierstad, Richardson, Barclay, Shelley, McCormack, Orman, Tobe)
5/37 (YTD 16/202) by PoC (Soyinka, Gao, Tobe, O’Malley x 2)
16/37 owned for more than a year (A Fire upon the Deep [reread], Northern Lights [reread], Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, The Wizard Knight, Frankenstein [reread], Faith in Europe?, Longest Day, Legacy of the Daleks, A Viceroy’s Vindication?, The Pit, A Town Like Alice, Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia, Dubliners, A Farewell to Arms, Diaspora, Wishing Well)
Three rereads (YTD rereads 14/202)
~11,000 pages (YTD 63,100)

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  1. JAlso John Buchan (the steps are private), Wilkie Collins (somehow the North Foreland Lighthouse inspired The Woman in White) and, most sfnally (see icon) Oliver Postgate.

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