Dog days of summer might mean days by the pool, or if the heat index is over 100 where you are it might mean days in the air conditioning.  Either way, you’ll be looking for some books to read.  Here are August’s genre blending titles to seek out and enjoy. Some things I am especially excited about? A not-new-but-new-to-Americans Murakami release of his first two short novels Wind/Pinball; Magic Shifts, a new entry in one of my all-time favorite urban fantasy series by Ilona Andrews; a new book about death from the always reliably amusing Christopher Moore called Secondhand Souls; The Veil, the series opener for a new urban fantasy set in New Orleans from Chloe Neill; and the charmingly quirky The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks. What are you looking forward to?

 

                 

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