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

[darlingfox]

With everything else I had to do, I only managed to read three books. ;____;

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris cemented my belief that only the first two Sookie books were worth reading for (for a certain definition of "worth", which is "silly popcorn for the brain") and I won't read the rest. The "all women who are attracted to the same men as Sookie are evil bitches" was disgusting. D:

Janet Evanovich's Finger Lickin' Fifteen, on the other hand, was the kind of popcorn I liked to read. The characters are still funny and I like that most of the important cast is female. And as a clear contrary to the Sookie novels, they're not horrible persons for thinking that Stephanie's squeezes are totally hot. Drooling after them is a shared hobby! :D

I also liked Margaret Atwood's The Year After the Flood. It did have elements I disliked, mostly related to the new-and-yet-so-typical post-apocalypse social structure (once again, women are prey for the predator men, and given a chance, most men are predators), but overall I was impressed by Atwood's worldbuilding. I liked Toby's story and point of view more than Ren's: maybe it was the relative maturity and her willingness to struggle on.

[sweet_sparrow]

Hopefully December will be nicer to you and give you more time to read! *sends good thoughts*