July was tough. My reading didn’t really suffer, but I didn’t have the mental space to think through reviews.
This month is also unique because every book came from the library. I’m so glad to have access to this precious public resource.
Relic
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
“Then he noticed that the rain forest, normally overflowing with the sounds of life, was silent. With a start, he turned to face the jungle. Something was moving in the towering brush at the edge of the clearing, and two slitted eyes the color of liquid fire took shape between the leaves.”
The Red Winter
Cameron Sullivan
“Sarmodel reached over and placed a spectral hand on my arm. ‘I have eaten hearts, Sebastian,’ he said, not unkindly, ‘and they are as any other meat. The only one that matters to me is yours, and I have shared it with you for lifetimes.’ “
Death at the White Hart
Chris Chibnall
“Her grandmother used to say, Least said, soonest mended. She would say the least, and it would be mended soonest. She tried not to think about the horrors of the night before.”
Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Julian Sancton
“We have sailed heedlessly into a trap of our own making.”
Snake-Eater
T. Kingfisher
“Some things are attracted to sadness,” said Grandma. “And you came in here a nervous wreck.”
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
John Kelly
“According to…Disaster and Recovery, a Cold-War era study of thermonuclear conflict, of all recorded human events, the Black Death comes closest to mimicking ‘nuclear war in its geographic extent, abruptness of onset and scale of casualties.’ “
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