Wednesday Reading Meme - catch up

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Books of July

Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
Strikethrough: Did not like; do not recommend.

Non-fiction
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone (Who'd be royal? Good grief.)

Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America by Ronald B. Tobias

The Astonishing Elephant by Shana Alexander

Vulture: Nature's Ghastly Gourmet by Wayne Grady

The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them by S. Anthony Barnett

The Plague Race by Edward Marriott (reread)

Pasteur's Gambit by Stephen Dando-Collins

Fiction
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Secret Hour (Midnighters, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

Touching Darkness (Midnighters, #2) by Scott Westerfeld

Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3) by Scott Westerfeld

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (animal abuse: the way the water horses were kept on dry land was cruel and the descriptions of the poor land horse, Dove, being forced into to race against them despite her terror were vivid and really upset me. Also, it was a boring book with a great starting idea.)

The Shadow Thieves (Cronus Chronicles, #1) by Anne Ursu

Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales by Tamora Pierce

Strange Angels by Lili St.Crow - DNF (blatant racism from a miserable main charcter. And if I wanted to read a female-led AU version of SPN, there are far better fanfics out there.)

Lament by Maggie Stiefvater - DNF (creepy new guy, inexplicable connection with main female character ... tedious.)

Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey (SO REFRESHING!!!)

Thalia, The Failure by Robin Klein (silly reread from childhood)