Yes yes, I know, we’re already halfway through October and I’m late with the monthly wrap up post. I just think we have to agree that my schedule is … well, a couple of weeks after everybody else’s and just go with it. I’ve been postponing and postponing posting this post – and maybe procrastinating a little bit – because I wanted to include links to reviews of all the books I read in October. I’ve finally realized that that’s not going to happen so here, 2,5 weeks late, is the monthly wrap up post for September…!
I picked up the pace a bit more in September. 4 books read. This is actually strange, since I started work this month. Luckily, only 30 hours a week and – even better – I commute by train so each day I have one hour to read on the train. I love traveling and commuting by train! Even one Friday, when the train was late because four cows were talking a walk on the tracks and I was sitting close to some guys going to the October Festival in Munich – and they were preparing by drinking beer and shouting ‘prost!’ a lot, making it rather hard to concentrate on Clarissa… Still, the train ride gives me time to read, I get to say hallo to my brother-in-law almost every morning when he gets on the train as I get off and it’s just a nice way to start and end the working day.
So 4 books this month. That’s okay. 2240 pages. That’s fine too. But I’m still 2 books behind on my goal to read 52 books. Still, I think I’ll make it … (ignoring the fact that I still have to read some really big novels this year like The Kindly Ones and Les Misérables).
- Christine Feldthaus: Feldthaus skruer ned. A Danish television celebrity takes on a challenge to become more environmentally friendly, use less electricity and hot water. An okay book that gives some nice perspectives on the environmental debate. 3 stars.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon. Great novel about the women of Arthur’s court and the intrigues surrounding them and it. And of course Avalon and the Lady of the Lake. And Lancelot. 4 stars.
- Stephen King: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1)
- Jean M. Auel: Folket i Klippehulerne (The Shelters of Stone) (Jordens Børn #5). After taking a long break from these books, I returned. Jondalar and Ayla has returned to Jondalar’s people and this book details how they get used to living in one place again, Ayla’s pregnancy and their mating ceremony. Very repetitive. 3 stars.
I also listened to one audio book this month:
- Lisa Shearin: Con & Conjure (Raine Benares #5). Fast-paced light fantasy read. Entertaining, nothing more. 3 stars.
So I have three months left to finish my challenges this year. I need to read some Neil Gaiman – and I’m looking forward to that. I need to finish Clarissa – I’m really looking forward to having finished that! And I need to read 8 books for my private challenge (including American Gods by Gaiman, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Don Delillo Underworld and the last book in the Earth’s Children series by Jean M. Auel). Last month I signed up for The Epic Dark Tower read-a-long and therefore, I need to read Dark Tower #2: The Drawing of the Three. I need to read 16 books more this year, having read 36 out of 52 so far. I think September again will focus on finishing challenges. Halloween is not a big thing in Denmark so I don’t plan on reading anything particularly scary this month – well, maybe Underworld, that one really scares me!
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