Read Strays of Ruined Springs

 All the books I read in July and what I thought of them can't stand this season, too hot, no school, bored, blah blah blah etc. etc.  In July I read 9 books :D ✨✨✨ The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I would recommend this book to If on a Winter's Night a Traveler enjoyers because I think this book is about being a writer in the same way that book is about being a reader, but I'm not really a writer, so I can't say for sure. This book is one of my favorite entries into the mystery genre because there are no stakes. The guy is already dying. Well, the guy is always already dead, but with Sebastian Knight, the question is about what his life was like, not who killed him. I'm phrasing this in a very confusing way; it's not a murder mystery because no one killed him. I loved reading literature analyses of Sebastian Knight's fictional books, and I think The Real Life of Sebastian Knight sort of imitates the style of Sebastian Knigh

 All the books I read in June and what I thought of them I hope the readers of my blog are having a better summer than me. I am so bored on the days I don't have my internship, but this is potentially a positive thing for the readers of my blog because all I can think to do with myself is read. Consequently, I read 11 books in June.  ✨✨✨ Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie rating: ⭐⭐✨ This is the first memoir Salman Rushdie wrote about the fatwa. It is such a shame that Salman Rushdie is a good writer who had a fascinating experience and yet did not manage to write a good book about it. I understand (because I read the book) that being fatwaed and then locked up in your house/other people's houses for ten years is an emotionally taxing experience and maybe you want to rant about it for 600 pages, so I'm glad he wrote the book if it was vindicating for him, but that doesn't mean it's a good book. Joseph Anton is doing great things as a vehicle for expressing angst and air