Actually, it’s hopeless. Even with a full-page magnifier, I struggle with the finer print of paper and ink books and get nostalgic for the effortless ease of the expanded print available with digital editions. I will have plenty of book shelf space in my new digs but I hope all these books don’t end up being dust catchers.

You may notice that I have stopped identifying eBooks with an asterisk. First, it is silly and wasteful when I tend to select digital editions more than”real” books (if anything I should identify those “real” books as such). Furthermore, I foresee reading digital editions almost exclusively in the future, even if I have the “real” book on the shelf. 

All books are real, whether they are digital editions, paper and ink editions, or even spoken word editions (maybe).

Here are the selections for July 2016 (Green are newish)

1. Drusilla — F. E. Campbell
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem — Joan Didion
3. Pilgrim At Tinker Creek — Annie Dillard
4. Bucking the Sun — Ivan Doig
5. The Big Money — John Dos Passos
6. The Big Sky — A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
7. The Old Capital —Yasunari Kawabata
8. The Man Who Spoke Snakish — Andrus Kivirähk
9. Author! Author! — David Lodge
10. Villa Triste — Patrick Modiano
11. Vaseline Buddha — Jung Young Moon
12. Wonderland — Joyce Carol Oates
13. The Thanatos Syndrome — Walker Percy
14. Wolf Solent — John Cowper Powys
15. The Waters of Kronos — Conrad Richter
16. The Counterlife — Philip Roth
17. Wind, Sand and Stars — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
18. It Came From Below the Belt — Bradley Sands
19. Dendara — Yuya Sato
20. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis — Max Shulman
21. A Man of His Time — Alan Sillitoe
22. The Mahé Circle — Georges Simenon
23. An Afghanistan Picture Show; or, How I Saved the World — William T. Vollmann
24. The Republic of Wine: A Novel — Mo Yan
25. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections — Slavoj Zizek