October Reading!

[sweet_sparrow]

What've you been up to, bookwise, in October? Read anything you think everyone should read? Something everyone should avoid? Are, or were, you reading anything special for Halloween? Too busy to read?

I'll be diving into Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip after hitting post here. I'm hoping to finish it before the end of the day as my final Tam Lin related book for this month. You could call it my special Halloween read if you liked.

My List of Books as it stands now - I'm not convinced I'll have the time on Monday - is as follows:

- Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block (Didn't finish. FLB's prose and I do not get along.)
- Labyrinth by A.C.H. Smith
- Out of the Silent Planet (Space 1) by C.S. Lewis
- The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia 6) by C.S. Lewis
- The House on Durrow Street (Mrs. Quent 2) by Galen Beckett
- The Witch Queen's Secret (Trystan & Isolde 1.5) by Anna Elliott
- Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
- An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton
- The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Dawn of Avalon (Trystan & Isolde 0) by Anna Elliott

That makes a total of ten books. Possibly eleven if I can get the one I started yesterday finished on time. ^-~ I'm a little surprised, actually, that I don't seem to have managed any non-fantasy books this month. I thik my favourite, despite having a boatload of issues with it, is The House on Durrow Street and Labyrinth is my least favourite. Stick with the movie.

I am, however, all caught up on my coursework reading now. Yay!

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[queen_ypolita]

My October reading:

The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith - the blurb made it sound more like a mystery/suspense novel than it was, so it took a while to adjust my expectations, but it was OK.

Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts - Two women in the house where one grew up and the other spent her holidays (and now occupies with her husband and children) with various objects in the house evoking childhood memories of their times together and of the secrets the adults were keeping.

Some Other War by Linda Newbery - First World War YA following twins Jack and Alice who turn eighteen in 1918; he joins the army, and she becomes a Red Cross nurse, I liked it.

Luftslottet som sprängdes by Stieg Larsson - The third book in the Millennium trilogy seemed to kick straight into action faster than the other two and was a page-turner from the first page until the last. I'm sad there won't be more; it feels we've only now really got to know Mikael and Lisbeth and are ready for adventures that take them beyond their pasts.

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald - a long novel about a family living in Cape Breton with one section towards the end being the New York diary of one of the daughters--that turned out to be the section I liked most, and was probably closest to what I had thought the book was going to be like. And surprise incest wasn't a fun surprise by any means. There also seemed to be potential for something about being bilingual (or frowned upon for being bilingual) but wasn't really explored at all. Overall, a disappointment.

Hey, Dollface by Deborah Hautzig - YA intense teenage girl friendship.

Temeraire by Naomi Novik - I wanted to re-read this before getting started with The Throne of Jade, which I'm currently in the middle of, and it was just as good as I remembered it being.

[sweet_sparrow]

There also seemed to be potential for something about being bilingual (or frowned upon for being bilingual) but wasn't really explored at all.

Being bilingual (or multilingual, depending on your stance) that makes me sad. Both the potential of getting frowned upon for it and that it wasn't explored. (And no surprise incest is not a fun surprise.)

Was it a good reading month for you overall?

[queen_ypolita]

Yes, overall it was good, some lows but enough of the good stuff to make up for them.