What've You Been Reading?

[sweet_sparrow]

I don't have a whole lot of time right now as it's Crunch Time with the semester's end and several nasty deadlines - for this week! - looming over me (so my apologies if replies are incredibly slow and/or just fall to the wayside altogether in advance). Please can someone have a talk with Time and have it freeze it until I get/feel caught up on stuff? *whinge*

I've managed to get a neat amount of reading done this month - about 15 books in all and a slew of short stories I haven't bothered to keep track of. The most notable reading of the month is no doubt the two thirds of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy that are out so far: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms, both of which I really enjoyed.

Disappointments of the month were Emma by Jane Austen and Sabriel by Garth Nix, neither of which I finished. I may try them again at a later date.

What about you? What's your reading month been like? What stood out in any way?

Comments

[holyschist]

I have read almost nothing this much:

89. Magic Lessons, by Justine Larbalestier (ya)
90. Magic's Child, by Justine Larbalestier (ya)

The conclusion to the Magic or Madness trilogy. I still really loved the magic setup in these (magic with a price!), but I felt the conclusion was a little too tidy and flat.

91. Liar, by Justine Larbalestier (ya)

This one was pretty amazing. Unreliable narrator to end all unreliable narrators, and all around-awesome. I originally wasn't planning on reading it because I'm mostly an SFF reader and it looked like contemporary, but I think there's a lot here to appeal to readers of any genre.

I'm currently reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Cryoburn (so far: eh) and a book about Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky's seminal Cold War chess match.

[sweet_sparrow]

One day I must get my hands on Liar...

Sounds like an enjoyable month, even if it didn't consist of a lot of books. ^-^ (Also, this is probably the first time your comment hasn't made me want books right this instant. O_O Liar doesn't count since I wanted that already anyway.)

[holyschist]

*g*

I can't believe I only read three books!

[sweet_sparrow]

But you enjoyed all three of them! I think I'd rather read three books I (really) liked than six of which I hated half...