August was a big blog month! Every month has been big for the blogs lately. I wrapped up my Tolkien 101 series after 19 posts. And, after a weak summer for both reading and non-Tolkien reviews, I posted 4 non-Tolkien book reviews and 8 total book reviews across both blogs. It was also my best month ever for views at Every Day Should Be Tuesday by a healthy margin, and I managed to finish 7 books (the same number that I acquired).
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Tolkien 101
- The Most Metal Deaths in Middle Earth
- LOTR Appendices
- The History of the Hobbit by John Rateliff
- On Fairy Stories
- Wrap-up
Non-Tolkien Reviews
- Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
- Rat Queens vol. 5 by Kurtis Wiebe
- Ravencry by Ed McDonald
- The Dream of an Iron Dragon by Rob Kroese
Top 5 Posts at Every Day Should Be Tuesday
- New Fiction from Cirsova and Sky Hernstrom
- Tolkien 101: On Fairy Stories
- Tolkien 101: LOTR Appendices
- Tolkien 101: The History of the Hobbit
- Oathbringer Continues to Build on a Structurally Remarkable Series
Top 5 Posts at Hillbilly Highways
- Nonfiction: White Working Class by Joan Williams
- Music Monday: Photograph by Charlie Robison
- Music Monday: Dwight Yoakam by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
- Movies: Rush (1991)
- Music Monday: But You Like Country Music by Sunny Sweeney and Brennen Leigh
Books acquired
- Wild Stars III: Time Warmageddon
- Mortu and Kyrus in the White City by Schuyler Hernstrom
- The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Dunsany
- Rat Queens vol. 5 by Kurtis Wiebe
- Like the Wind by Justin Knight
- The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard
- Congregations of the Dead by James A. Moore and Charles Rutledge
Books started
- Mortu and Kyrus in the White City by Schuyler Hernstrom
- Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy by Robert M. Owens
- Rat Queens vol. 5 by Kurtis Wiebe
- Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
- The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard
Books finished
- Ravencry by Ed McDonald
- Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
- Rough Animals by Rae DelBianco
- Mortu and Kyrus in the White City by Schuyler Hernstrom
- Rat Queens vol. 5 by Kurtis Wiebe
- The Dream of the Iron Dragon by Rob Kroese
- Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Every Day Should Be Tuesday 
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Check out my month-in-review post if you want to see which posts were my five most popular in August, and what books I have been reading and acquiring.
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