August wasn't as wonderful of a reading month as July, but it was still decent! I read six books, one of which was a reread. I also started a book but gave up on it. As always, click on the titles for my Goodreads reviews.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: And Six More, by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl is such a good writer. No matter what he's writing about, he always manages to make you interested! I wasn't really looking forward to this book, but I'd owned it a long time so finally decided to pick it up. Short story collections tend to be a mixed bag, and as I expected, I liked about half of these and didn't care for the rest (more details in my review). Worth picking up if you're a big fan of Roald Dahl!
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, by Alan Bradley. I liked this one much better than the last one...it feels more like the series usually does. I really enjoyed it, but I did not like the ending! I can't believe that happened.
A Jane Austen Education, by William Deresiewicz. This is another one that's been on my shelves for far too long! Unfortunately I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped to. It's part memoir, and I just found the author to be really annoying most of the time. It was also sort of repetitive and I feel like it could have been much shorter than it was.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling. I finally got around to reading this illustrated edition that I bought last fall! Fall just puts me in the mood to read all the Harry Potter books and watch all the HP movies, so this cozy reread was perfect. The illustrated edition is gorgeous, of course, and this is one of my favorites of the series.
Bone Gap, by Laura Ruby. This book was very strange. I couldn't really decide how I felt about it until it was over! I really liked it though. It's supposed to be magic realism, but it was more like quirky contemporary YA mashed up with fairy tale. It was all over the place, but somehow it worked?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by J.K. Rowling. I never would have expected it, but I actually enjoyed Quidditch through the Ages more than this one! It was just a sort of boring glossary of magical creatures. Still worth a read though, since it's part of the Harry Potter universe. :)
Did not finish: Tracy and Hepburn, by Garson Kanin. I tend to accumulate classic movie star books, and I bought this one at a library sale years ago. I got over 100 pages into but just had no desire to continue! I love Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn together in movies, but this book was just sort of boring and the stories told seemed so insignificant. The book is really about them separately, not as a couple. The only interesting thing I learned was that Spencer Tracy was so against going to the Oscars when he was nominated and sure he was going to lose that he scheduled a hernia surgery for that time so he wouldn't have to. Then he won, ha!