 Greetings. It is August 4, 2017. That means it's time for me to do my wrap-up of July. I didn't finish books. I didn't finish reading books in July. I'm trying to think, did I finish? I know I did some reading. I am reading Erihwan. I mentioned that in one of my videos previously. It's a long book. In some cases, it's heavy reading, but it's enjoyable. I have a couple of DNFs or LEMs. I did not finish books, I have to tell you about. These are audio books that I listened to when I drove up to Seattle. Number one, Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. I listened to more than two hours of that. It was a complete waste of my time. It's not science fiction. I would have sworn that Dandelion Wine was a collection of short stories like The Illustrated Man. But no, it's just Ray Bradbury fetishizing his childhood. He's talking on and on and on about how magic summer is. At the beginning of the book, what sounded like pages, five, six, maybe even ten pages, all he talked about was what the sunrise looked like. That's not how you hold my attention, Ray. The other thing was this. Demon Seed by Dean Koontz, which coincidentally I bought earlier this year when I took another drive up to Seattle. I bought it at a truck stop. It started off really interesting. At the very beginning, it's a first person point of view from a sentient computer telling you about how he became sentient and begging you to release him. He's buried underground or something. Yeah, interesting premise. But then he starts talking about how he fell in love with his creator's wife. And then he starts describing and excruciating detail the times when she was raped by her father. The reader is actually reading out loud every sentence that her father and her say to each other. And she's begging him, no. And I'm like, I'm not going to listen to this. So I turned it off. Too bad. All right. Now, as far as books that I bought, like I said, I didn't do any book buying this month until the last two days. I had to return my rental car to the Portland Airport and there is a Powell's outlet in the airport. So I stopped by there to kill a little time and I bought these. Annihilation by Jeff Vandemere. I see people recommending this book all the time and I liked his writing style. So I'm looking forward to it. Or it's in Craig by Margaret Atwood. This is another people that people are talking about constantly. I was okay with the price that I got on this. So I picked it up. And you may remember me talking about on Tumblr and on Twitter about how this was recommended to me by a guy who worked at the Powell's Hawthorne location. Give it a look. And then yesterday when I learned from my YouTube friend Becky M. that it is Stephen King month and further that Stephen King month is her deal, she started it. She listed Stephen King books that she's not read and one of them was Christine. So I walked down the street to Powell's and got these Stephen King books are like bricks. I'll try to read that one this month. I'm not going to promise anything. And while I was there I looked at the vintage anthologies and I couldn't pass up these sweet little deals. New World's Volume 5 edited by Michael Morkock. I've heard of this series. I haven't read it before. Let's see who's in here. Thomas M. Dish John Clute. John Sladek, the author of Tiktok, whose picture I use as my logo. So yeah, I don't know what Michael Morkock's tastes are like but we'll see. I'm looking forward to this one. And also this, look at this, look at this sweet vintage cover. Wow. This has the names you would expect. Isaac Asimov, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, A.E. Van Vogt. Yeah, I'll definitely look forward to this. I'm going to be reading more of these vintage anthologies in the coming months. That's it for now. I should be at 800 subscribers at this point or close enough to not to matter. Alright, coming up this month is my review of Moby Dick which I talked about on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter that I'm actually working on. I recorded it once already. I threw it out. I wasn't happy with the results but it's coming. And when I finish EriHwan I'll review that but in the next couple of weeks I'm going to be reviewing some classic stuff that you haven't seen me review before. So once I got that to come out of my mouth, that's it. See you next time. Or you can make a one-time donation.