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all the books i read in july and what i thought of them

  All the books I read in July and what I thought of them In July, I read 5 books and I liked all of them, and I also went to the Rita's in Walpole with Kate, and I had the passionfruit flavor, and it was very good, which was shocking because the only good Italian ice flavor is lemon. I also attended a crossword tournament and went to the beach. But I didn't listen to the July Hozier song even once so I didn't get anything out of this month and it was all vanity. First, I read The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien; the author of this book is clearly a lot of fun, but I didn't understand what anything was leading up to or what the point was. Hozier wrote two whole songs about this book. In retrospect, I guess I am pretty ambivalent about it, but I also probably should have been paying closer attention, and then I might have understood better.  Then, I read Vladimir Nabokov's translation and commentary of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. I liked that it was ve...