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

[sweet_sparrow]

Urgh, school schedules. I know all about those. >< (I had this great plan of reading The Tale of Genji before 2011, but it doesn't look very likely to happen...)

'course I do have lots of classics on my course list, so it balances out somewhat at least.

Maybe it's an idea to stick to some of the shorter classics out there whilst your school schedule eats so much of your time? I don't know Candide, but if memory serves the other two are both plays. Does that help with the reading of them, even if you're not getting to read a whole lot more than you'd have wanted to ideally?

[erebus_x]

(Ugh, school can be a pain like that. I wanted to read A Tale of Two Cities before the end of the year, but it looks like AP English will keep me from that.)

You caught my plan. :) I'm reading shorter works in order to compensate. (Candide is about 120 pages long for most editions.) I still get a sense of completion although I'm not reading the longer novels which I would have ideally wanted.

[sweet_sparrow]

(If I could read more than 50 pages at a time and at a decent speed I might make more headway...)

There's time enough for the longer novels. ^-^ I still have War and Peace lying around as well and I want to read Les Mis sometime... Too many long classics out there...