August 2019 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

August in a Thumbnail: 7294 pages (500 more than July), 24 books (same as July, and given the amount of time Dark Age took I’m happy about that), Average Rating of 3.9—which is not shabby. But 6 5-Star books??!?!? I’m either getting really soft, or I had an incredible month (my reflex is to guess I’m getting soft, but I’d defend every one of those).

Here’s what happened here in August.










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The Blue Zones Solution (Audiobook) by Dan Buettner, Joe Barrett: Uninspiring tales about efforts to prolong longevity
The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion: The Last Volume of the Trilogy Recovers most of the Magic of The Rosie Project
The World’s Greatest Mousetrap by B.C.R. Fegan, Fanny Liem: A Cute Little Story about a Bookshop under Siege
The Shameless by Ace Atkins: Tibbehah County’s Dark Past, Present and Future Combine for Atkins’ Strongest Novel Yet
Fletch’s Moxie (Audiobook) by Gregory McDonald, Dan John Miller: Fletch Solves a Very Hollywood Murder in Key West
Fletch and the Man Who (Audiobook) by Gregory McDonald, Dan John Miller: Mcdonald and Fletch at their Best
The Bitterest Pill by Reed Farrel Coleman: Paradise, MA comes face to face with the Opioid Epidemic
Carioca Fletch (Audiobook) by Gregory McDonald, Dan John Miller: A Bad Fletch Book — whodathunkit
Fletch Won (Audiobook) by Gregory McDonald, Dan John Miller: A Real Mixed Bag
Gravity by Maggie Lynch: A Promising Start to a Space Opera Saga
Not Home Yet by Ian K. Smith: This *is* My Father’s World
Time Travel + Brain Stealing = Murderous Appliances and Good Times by Richard Steele is a Thing that I Read
A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais: A Routine Errand leads to a Rescue Mission for Joe Pike
Screamcatcher: Web World by Christy J. Breedlove: Get Caught Up in this YA Fantasy’s Web
The Lord’s Supper: Answers to Common Questions by Keith A. Mathison: A Helpful, Careful, Encouraging and Challenging Look at some Tricky Questions
Shady Characters by Keith Houston: This geeky look at symbols and punctuation is as informative as it is fun.
Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia, Gabriel Picolo (Illustrator): An Updated Look into the Empath’s Past
Chances Are . . . by Richard Russo: Russo almost writes a Crime Novel, but manages to avoid it.
Dark Age by Pierce Brown: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed… / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.
Black Summer by M. W. Craven: A Good Detective Faces Off with a Brilliant Criminal for the Second Time
Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History by Lara C. Stache and Rachel Davidson: Oy with the Poodles Already
Cause and Effect: Vice Plagues the City by Pete Adams: It’s some effort, but readers will be amused by this
A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity by Nicole Valentine: A Captivating MG Mix of Science and Magic
Nightfall by Matt Cowper: The Stunning Conclusion to the Elites Trilogy

Physical Books: 7 Added, 4 Read, 27 Remaining
E-Books: 1 Added, 0 Read, 21 Remaining
Audiobooks: 1 Added, 3 Read, 3 Remaining

	2019 Library Love Challenge Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia, Gabriel Picolo (Illustrator): An Updated Look into the Empath’s Past Chances Are . . . by Richard Russo: Russo almost writes a Crime Novel, but manages to avoid it. Shady Characters by Keith Houston: This geeky look at symbols and punctuation is as informative as it is fun. Dark Age by Pierce Brown: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed… / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling, Jim Dale
	While I Was Reading 2019 Challenge Nothing this month. I’ve got the rest of the list picked out, just need to find/make the time.
	#LetsReadIndie Reading Challenge Finding God in the Ordinary Cause and Effect: Vice Plagues the City by Pete Adams: It’s some effort, but readers will be amused by this Brotherhood of the Worm by M. T. Miller (link forthcoming)
	2019 Cloak & Dagger Challenge Cause and Effect: Vice Plagues the City by Pete Adams: It’s some effort, but readers will be amused by this A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais: A Routine Errand leads to a Rescue Mission for Joe Pike Black Summer by M. W. Craven: A Good Detective Faces Off with a Brilliant Criminal for the Second Time Fletch, Too by Gregory McDonald, Dan John Miller (link forthcoming) Bitterest Pill Son of Fletch by Gregory McDonald, Dan John Miller (link forthcoming)
	Humor Reading Challenge 2019 Nada.
	2019 Cloud of Witnesses Reading Challenge Heaven on Earth by Thomas Brooks (link forthcoming) Life of Christ by J. Gresham Machen Reformed Dogmatics: Soteriology by Geerhardus Vos, Richard B. Gaffin Jr. (Translator) (link forthcoming)