What We Read in July

Hi, friends! Summer has been crazy, July perhaps even more so than June. Still, we managed to get some reading done.

Katie:

• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
• Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

As always, C.S. Lewis and Willa Cather are wonderful. Shatter Me didn't click with me. Destroy Me was an interesting sidestory, but unless I really like the next book, I probably won't go any further in the series. Not totally sure how I feel about Waiting for Godot. I'm going to restart Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic at some point - hopefully this month. I had started it at the end of last month, but got distracted by other things. Also in regards to last month, I forgot to include the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams in my list of June reads. Currently, I'm a little over halfway through The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield.

Sarah:

• Revolution by Deborah Wiles
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal
• Volumes 1-6 of Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki

I also read one last month that I forgot to list: The Crown by Kiera Cass. It's a pretty girly read, and also pretty cheesy and fluffy. Maybe it's made out of fluffy cheese. I don't know. It was a fun read, though. I'm currently reading Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as lots more volumes of Rurouni Kenshin. 

As you may have noticed, we've been having a bit of trouble sticking to our posting schedule of late. We also still haven't managed to begin our more detailed posts about the books we've been reading (we promise we'll get there at some point). Because of these difficulties, we've decided to mix things up a bit in August before going back to our regular schedule in September. We won't be doing our regular first-and-third-Friday-of-the-month posts, but we will be fulfilling a challenge for which a friend and fellow blogger nominated us that involves posting three days in a row.

Thanks for reading! See you soon!