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Although I didn’t hit a “reading slump” this summer—far from it—I read in big, fast chunks with long lulls in between. Rather than do monthly posts for the last three months with just one or two books each, I opted to combine them all into one big summer post, both for the sake of simplicity and to provide as many book blurbs as possible for these strange, hot, nebulous months.

Summer was weird for me. I started it in recovery from my hysterectomy, spent a week in the hospital for persistent pelvic pain likely due to (small) ovarian cysts, played The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for hours, and spent as much time with my partners and cats as possible. There were days I simply napped on and off, ice packed into the pain spots, wanting to read but unable to keep my eyes open for more than a page or two.

Through all of that, these books in particular hit me hard and have stayed with me.

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