What I’m Reading: July 2018

I do some of my best reading when I’m traveling. The photo from below was from the first of this month as I wrapped up a bachelorette party with some friends. I also had two six hour car rides to upstate New York for my US Bobsled team tryout.

With plenty of time in transit, I had a productive reading month, tackling murder mysteries (my favorite), cyber thrillers, a story about racism, and a memoir about sexuality. Hope you enjoy this list as much as I did reading them.

Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs

I’ve always been a fan of crime TV shows. Stick me in front of a Law and Order: SVU marathon and I’m a happy camper. In that same vein, there is a TV show called Bones, which follows Temperance Brennan, a somewhat socially awkward but brilliant anthropologist, who works with the FBI to solve crimes.

I was happy to learn that the TV show was created from a series of books by Kathy Reichs, a real-life forensic anthropologist. I’d had Deja Dead on my list for a year or two after picking up another book in the series in an airport. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with reading the Nancy Drew series in the exact order, all 52 books, starting from book one. It just seemed fitting to start another series from the beginning.