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

[sage]

82. A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell #3) - Laurie R. King
83. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
84. Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective - Donald Thomas
85. The Moor (Mary Russell #4) - Laurie R. King
86. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
87. O Jerusalem (Mary Russell, #5) - Laurie R. King
88. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (1893)
89. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
90. Faithful Place - Tana French
91. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
92. The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle
93. Justice Hall (Mary Russell, #6) - Laurie R. King
94. His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle
95. Hand of Isis - Jo Graham

...and I'll be done with The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes by tonight, thus completing my reread of the ACD Holmes canon.

This is way above my average monthly reading, largely thanks to the ACD books being incredibly fast reads.

(Um, don't necessarily take these as recs. Granted, I either liked or loved nearly all of them, but there's an anti-rec for the D. Thomas book on my goodreads.)

[sweet_sparrow]

No worries. I just like hearing about people's reading experiences. Finding something that sounds really good or really bad is just a neat bonus. ^-^ I always include books I didn't like, or even didn't finish, in my own lists. I did (attempt to) read them, after all.

Did you get the last of the ACD Holmes books finished indeed? ^-^ I hope so!