What I read last month

Shepherds Among Us: A Poetic Memoir. Trenda Geller. A book by a local poet, sent to me by a local small press. I read it and wrote about it for my newspaper. Not bad. 

Shadow of the Smoking Mountain (The Chronicles of Hanuvar #3), Howard Andrew Jones. Sword and sorcery stories, kind of based on Hannibal and Carthage and Rome. Quite entertaining. Jones is a tragic story, he died of brain cancer before he could finish this series. 

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon. Finally read some Pynchon, a fine work. Wrote about the Robert Shea connection here. 

Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist, Phil Baker. Excellent book from Strange Attractor about the British occultist and artist. I  wrote about it. 

Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life, Emily A. Austin. I am very interested  in Epicureanism, this is the best modern book on the subject. This was a re-read, I have now read it three times.