{"id":7579,"date":"2026-08-04T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:39:33","slug":"13-new-books-in-august-will-get-you-through-the-dog-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=7579","title":{"rendered":"13 new books in August will get you through the dog days of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the days of the ancients, the dog days of summer have promised heatwaves, bug bites and quantities of sweat no antiperspirant can contain. For once, why not spare yourself its indignities? There are more than enough new book releases in August to keep readers contentedly antisocial until the humidity breaks. This month brings riveting novels about dogs, stars (the Hollywood kind), small towns and characters with bigger woes than just sweat stains.<\/p>

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Like a certain hero of Greek myth and big-screen blockbuster, the Etna of Yoon’s title is the veteran of a catastrophic war, scarred in body and mind, dogged in pursuit of an improbable homecoming. Only, unlike Odysseus, Yoon’s hero and narrator is, quite literally, a dog. And the book bearing his name is no ancient tome but a slim, spare novel set in an unsettlingly familiar landscape. Don’t let the book’s length mislead you, though: Etna’s odyssey also deserves the epithet “epic,” and the characters who populate it have lived on in my mind long past the book’s final line.<\/p>

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