 Okay, it is August 2nd 2016. It's time for me to review the previous month July a Few quick details before I get started though. Obviously. I'm feeling better I'd said earlier in the year that I was having health problems, and I am but I mean look at me. I've been outside That's different Some statistics my YouTube subscribers are above 550 now the tumblr has finally stabilized above 100 watchers It would go to 100 and go back to 99 then it would go up to 100 and then back to 99 now It's been stable at 101 for a couple of weeks First of all there was a handful of books that came in in May and for some reason I didn't mention them in The previous roundup first of all a couple of books. I got at the library thrift shop Triggers by Robert J. Sawyer a big hardback for a dollar I don't know what it is. It's something about the president being in trouble and then some definite science fiction Slamhunter by AE Van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson Slam is one of AE Van Vogt's more well-known novels from way back in early science fiction history This is apparently a sequel written by Kevin J. Anderson. I I don't know much about it. We'll see Sharp objects by Jillian Flynn. I Picked it up because so many people are praising it. I thought I would just See what the big deal is I Showed you this last time Galaxy magazine from June 1974 and I also got I Don't remember if I showed this before April 1957 Galaxy magazine with a story by Clifford de Simac called Operation Stinky. I Read this story and it was really good There's Here's the artwork for the story this drawing by the way accurately depicts what happens in the story Last time I showed you this Trade paperback of a Wonder Woman War killer story written by Gail Simone. I bought this from Gail Simone at a convention Last month I had been told that this was a good one to read when you're not a regular Wonder Woman reader because it's a self-contained story It reprints several issues from Gail Simone's run a While back, but I have to tell you I had no idea what was going on I found it very confusing. It didn't make any sense to me There's a lot of continuity in here a lot of characters and lore that I Didn't know who they were. I Found it very confusing Wonder Girl showed up for no reason Graphic novel that I did enjoy and I do recommend Rachel Rising volume one by Terry Moore This is an example of the things that you see coming in on the tumbler That I don't necessarily get to talk about During the weekly video reviews. I Read this it was better than I expected I'll be getting the subsequent volumes and Because I want to know what happens and I think that's the highest compliment you can pay an author Okay New acquisition from the library thrift shops and another thing by Oyan Kalfa It's apparently a new book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series This was a dollar This is why I love the thrift shop at the library big hardback books known authors a dollar each You should be going to your library and looking at the thrift shop Oyan Kalfa if you recognize his name, but don't recognize his work. He wrote the Artemis Fowl series I read one of the Artemis Fowl books 10 or 15 years ago I remember being kind of cute but not remarkable. It was about a fairy who was a cop tiny little fairy some things I got at The movie stop which is going out of business and is closing up They were selling basically everything for 20 cents a piece. They had some comic books. They had some DVDs They didn't have much left on the shelves. I got this Robert Klein stand-up comedy DVD and this Documentary about Fox news which I've heard of but not seen at least I don't think I've seen it in some comic books I've never heard of imagine agents issues two and three Don't know who they are The saviors this is the first issue and Jupiter's circle number three I've never heard of any of this stuff. I read the plague by Camus This book is only How long is it? It's only 278 pages. It took me the entire month of July to read I picked away at it little by little Plus I'm a slow reader. It's no big deal The only reason I would recommend it is if you're studying Camus Yeah, not not exciting right now I'm reading the third bear by Jeff Vandemere, which I think I showed you at the last monthly roundup Or maybe the one before I'm starting to read horror stuff in preparation for October Because again, I'm such a slow reader. I need to get started now and What else old business? Oh? I'm gonna bring back the idea of the sci-fi book bag and I'm gonna call it the sci-fi book bag By the way, I had said at the beginning of the year that I wanted to do something like loot crate Except for sci-fi books and I didn't really have a clear idea of how much people would pay and how much they would get Well, what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do a compromise kind of thing. I've already got patrons for 30 second sci-fi so what I'm gonna do is anyone who becomes a patron of 30 second sci-fi at the $20 level will become a member of The sci-fi book bag and they will get one science fiction book every month. I Want to do this. This is what I want to do. This is my way of getting the sci-fi book bag started By shoehorning it into 30 second sci-fi and Anyone who's hearing this and wants to become a part of the sci-fi book bag right now All you have to do is follow the link below and become a patron at 30 second sci-fi at The $20 a month level and you'll start getting books Okay, as far as The reviews that I'm doing now the last one I did a few days ago of a mouse and his child that one was a week late and I never did squeeze in my fourth Hate review for the month of July. I shouldn't call it that there is specifically one more hate review that I want to do And I had an idea about how to do it and I'm gonna try to get that done this weekend in which case you'll see the review Early next week. So hang on the other thing I'm doing this weekend. I'm going to another comic convention Here in the Tampa Bay area. I'll make more of those convention videos I'm doing more work on the 50th Street. That's expanding. Oh, and I am working on getting a book discussion video made with other youtubers So that may be coming up soon Whatever the case there's more stuff coming up soon. So see them Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron There's a link in the description below