It was another poor sleeping month which means it was a good reading month. 🙂
July:
- You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
- A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
- Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel – Rachel Khong
- Since We Fell – Dennis Lehane
- A Woman’s Wisdom: How the Book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything – Lydia Brownback
- Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism – Richard Winter
- Commentaries on Proverbs – Matthew Henry
My favorite this month (and will very likely make my top five for the year) was A Gentleman in Moscow. The other fiction books this month were just meh.
What are you reading & recommending these days?
floridianne 
So glad to hear about A Gentleman in Moscow; it’s on hold at the library for digital audio. This month I’ve surprised myself by plowing through Michener’s Alaska. I’m not a real swift reader, and at 1124 pages, I figured if I got 500 pages into this word-dense book, I’d be doing well, take a break for something else, then revisit later to finish. Michener’s got me wrapped around his little finger though. By July 31, I was already on page 950, so finishing it soon is happening. For July, Alaska is my favorite pick for print, and for audio, David McCullough’s The American Spirit wins.
I haven’t read Michener’s Alaska, but I felt the same way about his Hawaii. Couldn’t put it down!
If you’re still working through Proverbs, I would recommend Ray Ortlund’s “Proverbs: Wisdom That Works”. Anything by Ortlund, actually. I just started J.I. Packer’s “Rediscovering Holiness” and am finding it quite good.
I read Ortlund’s book a few years ago, and it is excellent.