Another great reading month, but honestly, they are all good reading months, as long as I get to read. The standouts for me are the incredible Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica and the disappointing Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin, which I had high hopes for based on all the hype but really did not excite me all that much.

August stats in brief: 9 books read (all in English translation); 8 novels and 1 short story collection; 2114 pages; 6 languages represented from 8 countries; 4 ebooks and 5 real books; authors: 3 male and 6 female; translators; 5 male, 4 female, and 1 team.