August in Review: 08/31/08

Last month I said I would aim for 31 reviews for August after burning out in July. I didn't listen to myself. I came in at two under last month's high of 45. I am still trying to gear my reviews down for September and am still aiming at only one per day.

1. Amore by Laura Wolf (August 23)
2. Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks (August 24)
3. Another Dawn by Sandra Brown (August 5)
4. Another Perfect Day by Steven Popkes (August 22)
5. Bad Manners by Chris Manby (August 26)
6. The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger (August 19)
7. Bounty by Rand B. Lee (August 23)
8. Busy Horsies by John Schindel and Casi Lark (August 3)
9. "But Wait! There's More!" by Richard Mueller (August 27)
10. Childrun by Marc Laidlaw (August 11)
11. Church of the Dog by Kaya McLaren (August 19)
12. Click edited by Arthur Levine (August 9)
13. Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James (August 24)
14. A Day in the Life of my Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani (August 4)
15. Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs (August 11)
16. The Dinosaur Train by James L. Cambrias (August 6)
17. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (August 13)
18. El Tigre by John H. Manhold (August 15)
19. Five by Julianna Baggott (August 7)
20. Flip and Flop by Dawn Apperley (August 8)
21. The Fourth Watcher by Timothy Hallnan (August 10)
22. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (August 18)
23. A Grave Mistake by Stella Cameron (August 27)
24. The Great Waldo Search by Martin Handfold (August 3)
25. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (August 29)
26. I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton (August 31)
27. Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik (August 9)
28. Lifetime Loser by James Ross (August 2)
29. Moving Day by Cindy Chupack (August 12)
30. An Open Letter to Earth by Scott Dalrymple (August 20)
31. Persistence of Memory by J. M. Snyder (August 16)
32. Poison Victory by Albert E. Cowdrey (August 1)
33. The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay (August 18)
34. Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi (August 30)
35. The Regent's Knight by J. M. Snyder (August 21)
36. Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace (August 31)
37. Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger (August 25)
38. Smoky the Baby Goat by Mary Elting Folsom and Veronica Reed (August 7)
39. There's a Cow in the Cabbage Patch by Clare Beaton and Stella Blackstone (August 15)
40. The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner (August 16)
41. The Two-Month Itch by Sarah Mlynowski (August 29)
42. Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate (August 17)
43. Yoga Babe by Lauren Henderson (August 14)

Most of my reading this month was in the form of short stories, divided evenly between the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and American Girls About Town. The F&SF reviews are an ongoing project that I started last year; I will be finishing my reviews of American Girls About Town in September.

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Comment #1: Saturday, October, 10, 2009 at 21:34:41

booklogged

That looks like my year end review - 45 books in one month is amazing!

Comment #2: Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 13:47:25

Pussreboots

Forty-five was the most I ever managed to review in a month. Frankly it was too much. Too much stress for a blog that's done for fun.