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

[nerakrose]

I've read:

Clive Cussler - Cyclops
Clive Cussler - Treasure
Trudi Canavan - The Magician's Apprentice
Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol
Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Johanna Spyri - Heidi

I really enjoyed the Cussler books. They're such hysterical fun to read. XD Unintentionally funny, better put. I just love them in their cheesiness and clichés and whatnot.

The Magician's Apprentice is not something I'll reread. I picked it up secondhand out of need for something to read, and just... no. here's a link to my review of the book.

The Lost Symbol ... anyone who knows me, knows that I do not endorse Dan Brown. I read this because I was stuck at my mum's house with nothing else to read. Robert Langdon is a Mary Sue. The conspiracy was okay, but the plot development and the way the mystery was unravelled could've been done much much better. I don't like authors who talk down to their readers, and I feel that Dan Brown does that. I also don't like authors who withhold information from their readers on purpose and create a cliffhanger that spans several pages. Cliffhangers are okay, but Brown overdoes it. And now I'll shut up before I offend someone. Sorry. Do Not Like.

Memnoch the Devil is not something I'm likely to pick up again, either. I've been reading The Vampire Chronicles over the summer and after Memnoch I decided that I'm just not going to finish reading them. For anyone interested in reviews of these, that can be found in this post.

Artemis Fowl I enjoyed loads. I'm working on getting the series read and I think I'll make a post of reviews of all the books when I'm done. It's a young adult/children's fantasy/sci-fi series but I think you don't have to be a child to enjoy it. It's light reading but with an edge.

Heidi I simply loved. It's a classic I've been meaning to read for ages and when I found it second hand for 50 cents, that book was so mine. It's very lovely and touching.

[sweet_sparrow]

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed Heidi so much after having wanted to read it for so long! ^-^ Though I'm sad the rest of your month seems to have been so bad for reading. At least you really enjoyed Heidi and Artemis Fowl! ^-^ I hope that balanced things out for you a little enjoyment-wise!

[nerakrose]

heidi was indeed great :) i've grown up with the story, but i've never actually read it, so... :)

things were pretty balanced, though i have to say that i don't see bad books as a complete waste of my time...i'll always learn something from what i read, even if it is very little. and i find it interesting to see what sort of stuff i don't like and why and compare it with what i do like - and why. i learn things about myself :D reading ♥

[sweet_sparrow]

I remember being extremely scared of some cartoon adaptation or another...

*nods* As long as you can vocalise for yourself why a book doesn't work for you, the time you spent on it isn't a waste. I've learned more about myself and my own writing from gleefully pulling red markers through someone else's work than I ever did from anything else. ^-^

I was a little put out when all my hard-earned insights into when first person works for me was outlined succinctly in the Card book I read, though. ^-~ I'd gone through all that agonising trouble to figure it all out and all the while I'd only needed to read that chapter! >