# Whatcha Reading?  (August edition)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 3, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-august-edition/458677 "2008-08-03T05:00:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-august-edition/458677/1 "2008-08-03T05:00:44Z")

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I just finished _The Time Traveler’s Wife_ by Audrey Niffenegger, and really enjoyed it. A time travel romance/drama; very powerful and thought-provoking. Wiki says there’ll be a movie of it in the next year or so.

Next up: re-reading a favorite from my high school years, _Arthur Rex_ by Thomas Berger (probably best known as the author of _Little Big Man_). It’s an affectionate and clever retelling, somewhat but not _too_ much tongue-in-cheek, of Arthurian legend. Plenty of swords, sorcery, romance and valiant quests, but also jokes and veiled anachronisms that always make me smile.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-august-edition/458677/2 "2008-08-03T05:14:55Z")

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