My August Reading Log

Fiction:
I re-read Lois McMaster Bujold’s initial three books set in the “world of the Five Gods,” The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt. I’d loved them when they first came out, but it’s been well over a decade since I revisited them. Reading one after the other, instead of as they came out, meant I could see themes and ideas developing much more easily, and was also able to think about them in conjunction with the newer Penric and Desdemona stories, which are set in the...