Monthly Summary: July 2020

Welcome to another Monthly Summary on Pages and Tea.

Another monthly summary already?! Okay, here goes…

July’s reading gave me a month of complete contrasts.
I finally finished Lonesome Dove, that vast and epic trek across the wilds from Texas to Montana in the company of the Hat Creek Cattle Company. What a marvellous cast of characters pitted against every manner of hardship out in the wilds. It took me such a long time to read because it’s a massive tome, but I was a little sad to finally finish that final page and have to bid farewell to the characters I’d spent so much time with.

And then for something completely different…

A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill is certainly very different to my previous read, yet one thing it did have in common, some memorable characters to whom I warmed very quickly and wanted the best for them. Not necessarily going to happen in a book with monsters in the title, is it? The Turner family really didn’t have it easy throughout the novel, with real life torments and the actual monster lurking at the door.
Strange, surreal, weird in a good way, I enjoyed this book very much.

I am part way through Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang, so that book will no doubt receive further mention once I’ve finished it, and I’ve also picked up The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett.

The blog has been quite quiet this month, with only a couple of reviews appearing. Nevertheless, here’s an update of July on Pages and Tea…