CatchingUp

I've been meaning to post for about a week now, but my reading has gotten in the way. By the end of July - tomorrow - I will have read six nonfiction and two fiction for the month. Pretty impressive considering most were NF and they usually take longer.

What did I read?

It was a good month for interesting books. One of the fiction books, The Doomsday Book, was about the Black Death in 1348 England while time travelers back in 21st Century Britain dealt with a flu epidemic. Timely.

The other, Flight of the Sparrow, is a historical novel about 17th-century settlers in New England and the Indians located there. This was a true story. It is our upcoming book discussion in August.

Two nonfiction books were noteworthy. Killers of the Summer Moon was about the 1920 era murders of members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma and the founding of the FBI that solved the cases.

The second, Exterminate All the Brutes, was about the colonization and subsequent subjugation of the Africans living there. A horrifying, but very appropriate reading for these times.

Two other books:

David Sedaris's book of essays is typical of him and is entertaining for the most part. The Forster book on reading nonfiction was quite enjoyable. His poetry book, which I have, is next. 

The Education of T.C.Mits was a book about mathematics and thinking, written in the early 1940s, during the war. It was a very popular book and was included in the books that were sent to the men and women fighting overseas. Incidentally, the full title is The Education of The Celebrated Man in the Street.

The Trump book just came out and is self-explanatory. I believe the photo on the cover is from his days at the New York Military Academy (A JROTC high school).

All in all, a good reading month.