September Reading!

[sweet_sparrow]

Hey all! I'm feeling a wee bit swamped in stuff. (And the final days of September/beginning days of October are looking set to be an emotional rollercoaster.)

So I thought I'd inquire into everyone's reading a little earlier. (Obviously, feel free to wait to answer or not answer at all.) What have you been reading in September?

I'd expected to get loads of reading done with classes started up again, but I feel sorely disappointed. That may be because September has been an abysmal month for reviewing, though.

Books I've Read:

Ancient Irish Tales by Cross & Slover (Sorry, lazy. Their names are long.)
Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
Complete Short Fiction by/of Oscar Wilde
Far from You by Lisa Schroeder
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (dnf)
Haiku by Patricia Donegan
Mella and the N'anga by Gail Nyoka
Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger (I've been trying to say something about this book since I finished it.)
The Sound of Water by various poets
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Writing with Power by Peter Elbow

It's actually not much different from other months. That's about 12 books. My favourite was definitely Mella and the N'anga. I may finish Cybele's Secret before the month is out, but we'll see... I've also been reading Casting the Runes and Other Stories. Soon I shall be all out of coursework mandatory reading... Well, except for LotR, but I know I like LotR and cannot call it 'mandatory'.

What's your reading been like?

Comments

[marshtide]

Let's see...

Mina öar (My Islands) - Birgitta Stenberg
Essays about her life on a little island off the west coast of Sweden, writing and fishing. Really great. She's terribly blunt, and really gets in at a lot of things about those sorts of communities.

Fröken Markväldig och karriären (Miss Remarkable and The Career) - Joanna Rubin Dranger
A comic book about mental illness, ambition and self-worth. I don't know what to say about this except that it was really, really true.

Mumin samlade serier v.1 (Moomin collected comic strips v.1) - Tove Jansson
I don't love the moomin comics as much as the books, because a lot of the joy is in Tove's written descriptions, but they're pretty good anyway. :)

And I'm currently reading:

Tiger - Mian Lodalen
A book about a girl trying to figure out her sexuality in 70s Jönköping - i.e. not the most tolerant environment ever. I guess this classes as lesbian YA. I don't know what I think of it yet so I guess I'll have to report back next month!

Kärlek i Europa (Love in Europe) - Birgitta Stenberg
About Birgitta's life pre small-island-and-fishing. I'm really loving this one, though it's a lot about terrible terrible things happening. She ran off to Paris in the 50s, when she was in her teens, to try and become a writer. Which is about as smart as it sounds, really. But it's definitely interesting to read about!

I... uh... I think out of all these only the moomin comics are available in English though.

[sweet_sparrow]

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the books you're reading! How's the language learning coming along if you don't mind my asking? I suspect the books are helping loads with that. ^-^ (I'm trying to get more of my younger cousins into reading English to help them improve myself. I have two potential success stories out of six so far.)