Stuff I've Been Reading July 2020

I would like to note that the public library re-opened this month, finally making it easier to get books without buying them.

Books Purchased July 2020

1. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt (kindle and audible audiobook). 1 July.
2. The Metaphysical Club: A story of ideas in America by Louis Menand. (kindle and audible audiobook). 4 July.
3. Normal People by Sally Rooney. (kindle and audible audioboook). 6, 11 July.
4. Hermogenes on Types of Style. (kindle). 12 July.
5. Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino. (kindle). 12 July.
6. How You Say It — Why you talk the way you do and what it says about you by Katherine D. Kinzler. (hardcover for Monika). 28 July.
7. Hunting November by Adriana Mather. (kindle for Marta). 29 July.

 

Books Read July 2020

1. Bear’s Book by Claire Freedman illustrated by Alison Friend. (library hardcover). 34 pgs. 1 July
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. (kindle and Overdrive audiobook). 517 pgs. 551 running pgs. 2 July.
3. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt (kindle and audible audiobook). 352 pgs. 903 running pgs. 5 July.
4. The Metaphysical Club: A story of ideas in America by Louis Menand. (kindle and audible audiobook). 568 pgs. 1471 running pgs. 12 July.
5. Normal People by Sally Rooney. (kindle and audible audioboook). 268 pgs. 1739 running pgs. 14 July.
6. The Nix by Nathan Hill. (kindle and overdrive audiobook). 754 pgs. 2493 running pgs. 16 July. (I actually made it to pg 277 and decided I did not want to finish).
7. Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. (kindle and overdrive audiobook). 384 pgs. 2877 running pgs. 20 July.