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

[to_love_a_rose]

I tried to read Emma twice before I ever got through it. The third time I actually finished it, but it's still my least favorite of Austen's work.

I only make it through one book this month, and that was Hornblower and the Hotspur. It didn't take me all month to read the one book (in fact, it was a very quick read and I finished it in about three days), but all the rest of my reading time was spent poking at a lot of things but not focusing on any one of them. I read some essays by Charles Lamb, a bit of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, some additional Forrester, and some of the Memoir of Jane Austen by J.E. Austen-Leigh, but I read nothing but the Hornblower from cover to cover. Maybe next month.

[sweet_sparrow]

Always good to hear that you're not alone in something. ^-^ I want to give it another try eventually as I really do think there's a good chance it was just timing.

I'm sorry to hear you had trouble focusing on a book last month. I hope that December will make up for it!