Q3 has closed and we are diving into the last months of the year! I am just over 50 books shy of my annual reading goal, and while my September reading was not as illustrious as my August reading, I am pretty pleased with how we came out.
In the month of September, I read 18 books. Let’s break it down.
1 450+ Page Book
As part of my goal to read 12 big ole books this year, and this month I finally read Onyx Storm, the third Fourth Wing book. I had it on my Kindle, and it took me a few days, but I finished it and now I’ll be ready to read Threshing Day whenever my library hold comes in! That was my 8th book of the year that is longer than 450 pages, and I have at least 3 books on my list for the next month that meet that criteria, so I hope to at least do one more in October.
2 Book Club Books
This month, I had two book club meetings and read both books! My DAR book club read and discussed The Only Plane in the Sky, an oral history of 9/11. It was a stunningly well done book. The Princeton book club (I didn’t go to Princeton..) read and discussed Slaughter-house Five, which I had never read before. I’ve already read the DAR book for October, but I’m hoping to go to the Junior League book club next month, so it won’t be a lighter reading load.
1 Exhausting Audiobook
I only listed to one audiobook this month, and it was a slog. It was a 14 hour book about Renoir, one French Jewish family, and so much minutia about France in the 1890s that I thought I was going to die. The book was interesting, but the author absolutely got lost in the details for most of it, and the ending felt rushed. I am glad it is over and I can move on to other audiobooks.
3 Graphic Novels
This month featured two graphic novels–one of the new Junie B Jones adaptations, Xolo by the author behind The Last Cuentista, and Fiddlehead Forest, which is nonfiction about how a nanny log is born.
1 Adult Nonfiction Book
On the plane back from a trip to D.C, I flew through the book The Unplugged Hours, which is exactly what it sounds like! Had a slightly religious bent, but not heavy-handed and very thought-provoking.
1 Memoir in Verse
This month, I read Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson for the first time ahead of discussing it for the National Right to Read Night in October.
2 Adult Fiction Books
I only did two adult fiction books this month–one took me almost a week (The Collector’s Daughter) and one I flew through in two days (Taipei Story).
Swifts #1 and #2 by Beth Lincoln
After years of hearing how much I would like them, I finally read the first and second book in the Swifts series by Beth Lincoln, which were funny and witty and enjoyable and reminded me a lot of The Westing Game, which is all I can ask of a book. I cannot wait to read book 3, which just came out and that I have on hold at the library.
5 Shorter Kid Lit Books
I also plowed through five shorter kid books this month, including the first in the new Dragon Hill series by Tracey West, the latest Lucy Lancaster book, the new Henry book by Jenn Bailey, the next Gumluck book (which wasn’t as good as the others) and a short story-esque illustrated chapter book. I have a few more of these I want to read in October, because I can’t help it when I saw them on the library sheles.
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