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August has evaporated

Poof! It's gone! Labor Day is Monday and September is arriving. Oh joy! What did I do this month? Worked, read a whole bunch: When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky by John Moe The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of "Roget's Thesaurus" by Joshua Kendall Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestsellers by Lisa Adams Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America by Richard Zoglin Maps & Legends by Michael Chabon And I finished Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner Leap Over a Wall by Eugene Peterson Julie & Julia by Julie Powell If we're counting, I read 7 books in whole and finished three. 10 books in a month sounds pretty good to me. I also saw three movies in eight