A month in which reading is my coping mechanism… #august #20BOS26

August has obviously been quite a difficult month for me, so inevitably I spent as much time as I could with my regular coping mechanism, books. Drowning myself in words has always been very therapeutic and so I did read quite a pile of titles, and here they are: As always, here are the titles: Human Geography – Simon Armitage (30) Trafalgar – Angelica Gorodischer (27) The Crib and other stories – Albertine Sarrazin (25) Into the Whirlwind – Eugenia Ginzburg (26) Schoolgirl – Osamu Dazai (37) Murder at the Black Cat Cafe – Seishi Yokomizo (34) You Are The Fuhrer’s Unrequited Love – Jean-Noel Orengo (35) The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton (36) On the Road – Jack Kerouac (33) The Castle – Franz Kafka (31) Kafka’s Other Trial – Elias Canetti (32) The Name on the Wall – Herve Le Tellier (24) Kafka’s Last Trial – Benjamin Balint (29) The Lesson of the Master – Norman Thomas di Giovanni (28) The numbers are the running total for my 20 Books of Summer and you will see that I in…