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

[phoenix]

I started the month without Internet, so read a ton of books in the first couple of weeks. Now I have the net and college is back - it's been over a week since I finished a book! I'm looking forward to reading Mockingjay now.

Read this month:
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (because someone suggested the iPad was like the Primer)
Lightborn by Alison Sinclair
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (reread)
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (reread)
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (reread)
Blameless by Gail Carriger
Changeless by Gail Carriger
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Beautiful Data from O'Reilly
The Battle of Evernight by Cecelia Dart-Thornton
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
The Lady of the Sorrows by Cecelia Dart-Thornton
The Ill-made Mute by Cecelia Dart-Thornton

[sweet_sparrow]

Books I've read and not just heard of! *beams*

Sometimes the question posts make me feel horribly illiterate and badly read. Which is Silly since I have a degree in literature, but there are so many books out there... It's always fun to know a few books. What did you think of the Dart-Thornton ones? It's been... Wow, almost ten years since I read those. I remember loving them a lot when I read them, but I'm pretty scared they won't live up to memory. (Most of the books I read in the same period and tried to revisit don't.)

Would you recommend Lightborn? I think I have that on my wishlist, though it might be another book by the same author.

[phoenix]

I'd definitely recommend Lightborn - I picked it up on a whim because I liked the cover. Then later realised it was second in a series and I needed to read Darkborn first. But both were worth it, very enjoyable and different fantasy. They're set in a vaguely Victorian time, but the setting is unique (two peoples living side-by-side, one unable to go out in daylight and the other unable to survive darkness, evolving different cultures).

I enjoyed the Dart-Thornton books, a very different feel to most books I've read. There was a constant stream of wonder, creatures of fae appearing and not necessarily being explained: it was just a given that these things happened, existed, that they were bound by certain rules as a matter of course. Dreamlike. Not perfect, but a different, pleasant taste.