My July 2020 Reading

     July reading stats:

• I read 12 books.
• 4 of the books were arts and crafts books.
• 1 was craft related.
• 1 was a comic.
• 1 was a novella.
• 3 were re-reads.
• I didn’t listen to any audio books.
• 5 were for reviews for NetGalley.
• 1 was a library book.
• Only 1 was a physical book, the rest were ebooks.

     It was a strange month of reading. I would sum up the month as reading for reviews and comfort.

     I went on a request spree of craft books on NetGalley so had to get those read for reviews (You can read my review for The Mindfulness of Knitting here and this post covers The Art of Tapestry Weaving, Craft Your Own Happy and 10-Step Drawing: Nature). I also read The Wood Burn Book which I reviewed over on my other blog and will post here later this month. Craft books aren’t for everyone but I do enjoy them because crafting is my main hobby (hence my other blog). Also, craft books are easy to get through so they really help boost your read count!

    In terms of literature though over reference books, my reading was largely comfort re-read based. Even though I’d read the Spectre * first series books back in May, a series of 6 short novellas, I decided to re-read the first in that series, Hunter of Demons. I also re-read The Magpie Lord * and Salt Magic, Skin Magic *. If you go look up any of those books, you’ll notice my comfort reads are all gay romances with paranormal mysteries to be solved. Hunter of Demons is set in a modern day America but the other two fall into my preferred category of magical, gay romances set in the Victorian ere featuring a paranormal investigator and shockingly handsome lord.

     But moving on from that! I read Caroline’s Heart *, a short novella (only 96 pages) about two trans characters, a cowboy and a witch, meeting and falling in love in fantastical 1885s America. It was short but wonderful and I absolutely loved it. I would highly recommend it if you’re looking for a quick read with emotion. On quite a different spectrum, if you like dark sci-fi comics written by the singer of Coheed and Cambria, I also recommend The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade *.

     And finally, (by which I mean I read it at the start of the month) I read Vicious by V.E. Schwab *, a book I highly recommend but will talk about more in a future review.

    Wait, no, that wasn’t finally. I also read To Kill a Kingdom * which I’ll also talk about in a future post.

    Okay, that was my July reading. What did you read in July that you’d recommend?

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