August was an insanely busy month for me, but did offer up occasional reading time, mostly in airplanes, and at airports, and sitting in the public areas of convention centers before anybody else was awake.
Acquisitions
- Kaja and Phil Foglio, An Entertainment in Londinium (Airship Entertainment) [2025.08.05] – Kickstarter reward
- Eugene Vodolazkin, The History of the Island (Plough Publishing) [2025.08.14] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, Michigan
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Notes on the Assemblage (City Lights Books) [2025.08.14] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, MI
- Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran (artist), Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel (Dunmanifestin, Ltd.) [2025.08.25] – Reward for a Kickstarter which persevered through multiple rounds of slings and arrows over the past couple of years.
- Zig Zag Claybourne, Amnandi Sails (Obsidian Sky Books) [2025.08.29]
Reading
Books
- Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine [2025.08.17]
- Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (re-read) [2025.08.24]
- Dennis E. Taylor, For We Are Many (re-read) [2025.08.25]
- Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds (re-read) [2025.08.26]
Short Prose
- Kameron Hurley, “The Wonder” [2025.08.28]