August book round-up

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This is, ahem, a wee bit late, but that's because I spent the first part of the month frantically working on my dissertation.



The complete list (finished books):
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, Donald G. Kyle
A Study of the Slave Trade and the Sources of Slaves in the Roman Republic and the Early Roman Empire, Wayne Boese
A Scholar of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
Adaptation, Malinda Lo
Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: No Prisoners, Karen Traviss
Magic Burns, Ilona Andrews
Beyond Control, Kit Rocha
The Ides of April, Lindsey Davis
Beyond Pain, Kit Rocha

Novellas and short stories:
"Loch and Key", Seanan McGuire
The Bane Chronicles: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort, Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson
"Bad Dream Girl", Seanan McGuire

TPBs/graphic novels:
Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero, Travis Beacham

Books in progress (as of September 1):
Dog Wizard, Barbara Hambly
Indexing, Seanan McGuire (serial)

Did Not Finish:
Rebels and Traitors, Lindsey Davis
Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World, Youval Rotman (trans. J.M. Todd)

Yes, I finally finished The Hobbit! After nine months or so I finally got emotionally distant enough from it that I could read the last thirty pages or so with only a little bit of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

August was my dissertation writing month, so there aren't as many research books on here since my non-fiction book consumption trailed off as I switched over to reading a lot of articles -- which aren't on here, because I don't keep them in my main book-tracking file and I don't want to comb through my "books and articles read for dissertation" document and try to figure out what I read in August and not in July or September. Pulling that up just so I could get the full title for the Boese book (which is actually a PhD dissertation, but whatever) was bad enough. ARGH DISSERTATION FLASHBACKS NO SAVE ME.

Uh, I mean.

Rebels and Traitors and Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World made the DNF list -- the latter because I didn't have time to finish it before I left, the former because I just couldn't finish it. I love Davis's mysteries, but her novels make me pull my hair out and I can't figure out why. Something about the pacing and the plotting, maybe.