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

[darlingfox]

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds - I don't usually read scifi but I actually liked this one. It had a great female character (Purslane, I liked her much better than her male counterpart), not too much technobabble and the plot was quite interesting.

Living Dead in Dallas & Club Dead by Charlaine Harris - I liked the first two Sookie Stackhouse novels (they're popcorn for the brain!), but Club Dead was a disappointment. One of these days I might actually write about the problems I had with Harris's portrayal of women other than Sookie in it.

Kirkkaan selkeää by Maarit Verronen - A Finnish scifi novel, the title is a reference to clear weather. This was too bleak, depressing and boring for me. :/

Minne tytöt kadonneet by Leena Lehtolainen - Finnish crime fiction, title is a reference to a song and means "where have the girls disappeared to". Lehtolainen has written a lot of crime novels and this was the first one I read. It was pretty meh: I did finish it but I'm in no hurry to read her other books.

[sweet_sparrow]

Purslane is a brilliant name. It rolls off the tongue wonderfully. I'm slowly (read extremely slowly) branching out into scifi. The hard, technobabble-filled, idea-focused scifi scares me massively, so any time I find something that sounds like it'd be more Shanra-friendly in its way of writing I'm happy. ^-^

Do let me know if you write about those problems! I admit I haven't read the books (and don't plan to since they don't appeal to me), but the topic sounds fascinating (and educational) all the same. ^-^

[pyrofennec]

Harris's portrayal of women other than Sookie in it.

Oh shit yes, I don't know how anyone can stand this steaming pile of a series. Charlaine Harris is a misogynistic shit with a side of homophobia, Sookie is a judgmental asshole and a racist twit.