A Look Back at September
This was the month where I let go of my blog for two weeks and headed away on vacation. I left you with plenty of guest posts, which looked to be received in a great way. Have to confess, I was ready to have such a long break from blogging - it did me loads of good, and helped to bring me back refreshed. Although my blogging might start to take a backseat to real life for a couple of months. My hockey season has started and I need to get back into training. My dance exam needs a LOT of practice! With all this in mind, and with the sheer number of books currently squeezed into my shelves, I have decided to decline all review copies. I simply can't do them justice and I'm way more stressed than I should be about reading. I am still reviewing - a lot of people seemed to think I was quitting altogether - but I will be choosing my own books in a guiltfree manner.
Reading
A slight dip in form, with only nine books completed, but, honestly, my two week vacation did not allow much time at all for sitting and reading.
73) Dangerous Waters by Juliet E McKenna
74) Shelter by Harlan Coben
75) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
76) Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith
77) Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
78) Getting Away With It by Julie Cohen
79) The Portal by Alan Zendell (self-published)
80) VIII by H M Castor
81) Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley
- A little more balanced this month, with 6 books by women and 3 by men - over the year, though, the women are absolutely dominating.
- 3 YA (historical, fantasy and thriller); 1 chick lit; 1 steampunk sci fi; 1 straight sci fi and 3 fantasy.
- A terribly rare month for me where all nine novels tackled were review copies.
Best Book of September
I simply can't choose between these two books - they will be competing for which of them takes away the 'Best Book of the Year' title. The first is:
The second is:
I'm dropping the Pages Covered and Places Visited features for this month.
Plans for October
I have just now dug out all of my Black Library titles. There are a whole heap that I love the look of but have never managed to get to until now. Expect to see a large number of this featuring over the next month and onwards. Apart from that I am deliberately making no plans and just enjoying my reading!
Over To You
How did your September go? What did you read? What did you get up to? Spill!
You sound so very very busy - even with your vacation! How do you find time to read all those books and do a day job?? Phew! I simply carried on writing bits and pieces and going out and about and - guilty secret - did not do a great lot of my wip! But I'm about to change all that...
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the reading!
Hubby is currently reading & loving Ready Player One :) Wish he'd hurry up with it so I can have it! September was the usual blur of work for me, but it was the month I fell in love with Stephen Erikson, and so will long be remembered for that :)
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