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For all your non-jerking needs

Now I know a lot of you are sweating and sweltering away up in the northern hemisphere, but down here in the southern hemisphere, we've been slowly turning to frozen little arsenal fans and hiding indoors as much as we can. As a result, it has meant reading time. I managed to get thirteen books done, and my submissions for the theme were the three books by the Secret Footballer "I am the Secret Footballer", "Tales from the Secret Footballer", and "The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas". Unfortunately, while there were some good parts to the books, as the books went on it seemed that The Secret Footballer was the only intelligent and sane person in football at the time, and who could only be trusted to run a football club in the eventuality he take over as chairman, which is stunning given the massive racist segment in the third book about how "Black player can be an effective central midfielder as they can't concentrate long enough" (paraphrasing but its something similar) (I swear I didn't know this about the author before reading). In my other reads:

• Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth

• The Transformations by Andrew Pippos

• Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

• All My Demons Greeting Me as Friend by Aurora Asknes

• The Gods We Can Touch by Aurora Asknes

• What Happened to the Heart? By Aurora Asknes

• Gliff by Ali Smith

• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

What did you read this month? Did anything fit the theme? The theme for August is "Something unsettling". Happy reading!