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

[thecutepolice]

November has been pretty slow for me, I read:

Bloody Bones by Laurel K. Hamilton
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin
The Killing Dance by Laurel K. Hamilton
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

(I also realized I've been slacking very much on non-fiction type reads).

Best was probably Temple Grandin's book, I find her totally fascinating. Most disappointing was Eat Pray Love. It wasn't "bad" per se, but I expected to absolutely love it and be totally inspired by it, but was instead pretty annoyed.

[holyschist]

I have Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation, which is great so far! She's a fantastic writer.

[sweet_sparrow]

Is it such a bad thing for you to read less non-fiction? *tilts head* I read very little of it on the whole because I find it very difficult. (Information overload, I think.) I'm always amazed by the people who can read lots of it. ^-^

[thecutepolice]

Well I've been trying this year to keep a balance between fluffy chick-lit, fluffy (in a different way) sci-fi/fantasy, "good" fiction, and non-fiction, especially related to my field. I'm not really succeeding though, I don't think.

[sweet_sparrow]

If it helps, it tends to take me a while to build up a conscious balance when I try it, so maybe if you continue trying next year it'll be a better balance?