Stuff I've Been Reading September 2019

Books Read September 2019 

1. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (kindle and audible audiobook)
   Dog Man by Dav Pilkey (paper)
2. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (kindle and overdrive audiobook)

3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (kindle and overdrive audiobook -- gave up before the end)

4. Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet (kindle and audible audiobook)

5. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (library hardcover and overdrive audiobook) 19 September
6. The Poet X Elizabeth Aceveda (kindle and overdrive audiobook) 21 September
7. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges 26 September  (paperback that Michal owns)

8. My Life with BOB: Flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues 
by Pamela Paul (kindle) 29 September

Books Bought September 2019

1. Dog Man and Cat Kid by Dav Pilkey (paper)

2. Dog Man: A tale of two kitties by Dav Pilkey (paper)

3. Make Your Home Among Strangers Jennine Capo Crucet (audiobook)
 
4. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (audiobook)
 
5. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (hardcover from Barnes & Noble, Deptford NJ for Monika)

6. My Life with Bob: Flawed heroine keeps Book of books, plot ensues by Pamela Paul (kindle)

7. The Second Founding: How the civil war and reconstruction remade the constitution by Eric Foner (hardcover from Inkwood Books Haddonfield NJ)


I always feel good when the number of books read exceeds the ones bought. Ultimately, it does not matter what format I read a book in (kindle, paper, audiobook) of I bought the book, borrowed it from the library, and got it from a friend. Most books are worth the time. Some are exceptional.

Aside from Paul's book about how her reading journal connected to her autobiography and Pynchon's novel -- both of which were excellent in different ways -- I have been trying to connect my reading with Hispanic Heritage month which runs from 15 September to 15 October -- why the middle of two months? Thus far Capo Crucet's book about a young woman going from a Cuban-American community in Miami to a freshman at Cornell has been my favorite.