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

[akk]

Late to the game, but anyway...

I'm still at rereading Hardebusch's Sturmwelten trilogy as promised last time. Parallel, I'm reading Tanya Huff's The Blood Books (all six) in English. The books are the source for the Canadian tv series "Blood Ties", which is one of the few "surprise, I love it!" vampire series since "Nick Knight" ages ago. If you like urban fantasy with a distinct base in reality despite vampires, wers & co, the books are a recommended read (they aged nicely, aside from the lack of mobile phones in the books (not in the tv show), it's barely noticeable that they were written in the early 90s of the last Millennium. ;)
Plus Lynn Flewelling's The Bone Doll's Twin, rereading aloud for breathing training. The book sucked me in just like Luck in the Shadows did, so I'll definitely go through this trilogy as well.
And The Sword and the Dragon by M. R. Mathias. Epic high fantasy (dragons, elves, giants, kings, betrayal, sorcerers... and all with a distinct *twist* in the plot). It's only available electronically via Smashwords, but it's nicely formatted, well edited, and a helluva read (so far; I've been probably 20% in). Smashwords offers the first 43% of the 235354 words for free. So there's a chance to give it a try for free in your respective e-format (no DRM afaik). It's also the first of a trilogy, the 2nd book is to be published early next year, and so far, I'm looking forward to it. :)

[sweet_sparrow]

Psssh, only late if you take into account I posted it hell-early.

Rereading for breathing training? As in you're training yourself to breathe whilst reading aloud or?.. Because that might be worth looking into for me. I tutor several hours in a row and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's murder on my throat. T-T

Ooh, that sounds like fun! ^-^

[akk]

I've got asthma bronchiale and have to give university lectures once in a while. So it's two things at once (actually three things, if I add reading a story I'm curious about): training to breathe properly while speaking aloud for a certain time as well as excercise for it (and control if all is still well and there was no gradual decline I failed to notice).

What sounds like fun? :-)

[sweet_sparrow]

Sounds painful... I'm glad there are things that can help with the lecturing, though!

The smashwords book. ^-^

[akk]

It's not really painful, that's what the training is for. :-)

Smashwords is a nice site. I've found a couple of interesting books there, though this is the first one I actually bought. There's another one about a Taoist assassin, which I bookmarked for further evaluation once I finished this one.

[sweet_sparrow]

I'm glad it's not so bad. ^-^

I've only heard of it since very recently. I haven't done a lot of investigating yet.

[akk]

It can be bad, that's why I'm careful to observe condition & exercise.

I think it's worth the effort of investigating. I'm looking forward to roaming their e-shelves some more. A lot of their stuff is truly not available elsewhere. :)