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

[slippy]

I'm trying to teach myself that putting down books that don't grab me in any way (even if they're otherwise an okay read) is perfectly acceptable. ^-^
I also find this difficult! I can just about allow myself to cheat and read only the last page or so, but somehow it's difficult to just drop a book.

I'm not sure why, but I'm reluctant to read more works to try and find an answer.
I'm not sure either, except that I usually have the feeling that his books would work better as movies or TV series. They always seem so visual, and possibly there's less substance than I generally find in books? (But that might be an unfair assessment.)

And when DWJ is good, she's very good.

[sweet_sparrow]

I've discovered that it's easier when it's not actually a physical book. I do most of my reading on a train, though, so if my choice is between being sort-of entertained by a book and staring out the window it's easily made...

Mmm. It might be a fair assessment, though. I can see it working with what I've read anyhow. ^-^

Indeed she is! I made my friends pick out a DWJ book for me to read once because I had no idea where best to start. We nearly missed our bus stop thanks to that! (They'd picked Howl's Moving Castle and... the rest of the world ceased to exist.)