Phew, July was a tough one, spent mostly coughing – no other symptoms, not even soar throat. But heavy coughing for 5 weeks is annoying and exhausting.
So besides juggling with teaching and coughing, I spent a lot of time sitting and reading, hence a new record of 18 books.

It was full of French books for #ParisinJuly2025. So for once, I didn’t even read any books in translation this month!
I have also read 23 books for the #20booksofSummer2025, though only 11 from my original list.

📚 Here is what I read in July:

18 books 
13 in print 
=  with 2,452 pages, a daily average of 79 pages/day
5 in audio
= 26H43, a daily average of 51 minutes/day 

A nice return to my usual diversity, including a Christian romance, a genre I had never read before:

6 in mysteries:

1. L’Avocat du diable, by Jean-François Pasques
2. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant #2), by Josephine Tey – audio
3. Angelhunting (Seamus Caron #1), by Ji Hong Sayo – audio, for review
4. The Golden Ball (The Listerdale Mystery #10), by Agatha Christie – audio
5. Voici demain, by Valentin Musso – audio, for review
6. Hôtel du Grand Cerf, by Franz Bartelt

5 in nonfiction:

1. Hokusai: He Saw the World in a Wave, by Susie Hodge and Kim Ekdahl
2. Regarde les lumières mon amour, by Annie Ernaux
3. Fifteen Days in Paris: And Fifteen Years To Write About Them, by Jon Davey
   – for review
4. Mishima ou La vision du vide, by Marguerite Yourcenar
5. Proust, roman familial, by Laure Murat

2 in literary fiction:

1. Les Chevaliers du subjonctif (Plaisirs secrets de la grammaire #2),
   by Érik Orsenna
2. La Cote 400, by Sophie Divry

2 in poetry:

1. Cent mille milliards de poèmes, by Raymond Queneau
2. House of Light, by Mary Oliver

1 in scifi:

1. Artificial Wisdom, by Thomas R. Weaver – for review

1 in YA fiction:

1. 35 kilos d’espoir, by Anna Gavalda

1 in Christian romance:

1. Judging Athena, by Perrin Lovett