I had a great start to August with reading. I even managed to only read books that I own, which was great as that is one of my goals for the year. But then the Canadian election was called, and I decided I need to put reading books in English aside until the election at the end of September. Instead I’m going to be reading through the many issues of Maclean’s Magazine that I’ve been putting off reading for over a year (I started off with 13 and my brother says he has 2 or 3 more) in an attempt to be more informed prior to the election, so that’s going to keep me busy!
But I will continue reading books in French and Ukrainian as I go through all the Macleans back issues. 🙂
Nonfiction books:
- Narrative Designer: Fabulator Ludus by Stephen E. Dinehart IV
Fiction books:
- An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
- Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire
- Dungeon Desolation by Dakota Krout
I also read two local magazines (Northwest Nosh from 2019 and a copy of The Walleye from earlier this year) and 4 issues of Maclean’s. I really hope I’ll be able to keep up my momentum with reading them in September!
I think my favourite book this month was An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire. I really liked the idea of where Blind Michael, the master of the faerie Hunt, gets his new hunters and their steeds from. I do wish the book had upped the horror factor a bit though. The story revolves around a childhood bogeyman and the main character gets turned into a child – this just screamed horror, or at least a much darker vibe, a la Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
So what have you read over the last month? What was your favourite book?
An Acquaintance with Letters 
I’m reading “The Postscript Murders” by Elly Griffiths. She’s a wonderful writer and one of the few I read who writes fiction in present tense. It’s a good lesson!
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