Good-bye to September. How has your month been? This has seemed like a really long month to me. My work is getting busier as it’s typical for a lot HR departments towards the end of the year. Unfortunately my reading has once again kind of stalled but I’m hopeful that I’m getting out of a bit of slump. Luckily when my reading stalls, I have my crafty projects to turn to and I’ve been have a lot of fun with those but I’ll save the craft talk for another post.
In September I finished three books: The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle and Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera. All had some good points but not enough to say this is a favorite of the year.
I think I would have enjoyed The Club Dumas more if I had read The Three Musketeers recently. Hieroglyphics had a lot of back and forth in time and multiple view points and I think having it as an ebook didn’t help. Signs Preceding the End of the World didn’t wow me as much because I kept comparing it to Hurricane Season which I read last month and I am still thinking about.
Unfortunately I didn’t finish a book for the R.I.P. XV reading challenge but I am about half way through The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. When I first started this I wasn’t as taken in but that could have been my whole reading slump issue but now that I’m half way, it’s really great. I’m looking forward to finishing it this weekend.
Let me know if you read a great book this month. Do you have any reading plans for October?
My favorite book for September is probably Louise Penny’s new book, All the Devils Are Here. However, I read several good ones. Looking forward to seeing what October brings in the reading department. I liked The Turn of the Screw pretty well. Makes a very scary movie.
I love Turn of the Screw and have read it multiple times. I really enjoyed Elly Griffith’s The Postscript Murders this month. 🙂
I am glad your crafting helped you through the month. I was stuck in middle grade fiction territory most of the month. Not that it’s a bad thing! I love seeing my daughter get excited about books given how its something she struggles with. I hope you have a great October!
I find that my reading tends to slow as we get into Fall and early Winter. Instead, I spend more time doing crafts. I guess it’s just a seasonal thing. Not sure how much reading I’ll do this month but I do have ambitious plans, lol. Hope you have a good October, whether it’s with reading or making things or something else!
I suppose being busy is better than being bored, right? Thanks for the comment here about Hieroglyphics. I want to read it, but I’ll try to get a print copy rather than listen to the audio.
Hmm, I guess my favorite read in September was The Dutch House, although Behind Her Eyes, The Summer Guest and When My Time Comes all hit the high marks. I’m currently reading Blood Harvest (S.J. Bolton) and it’s super creepy! I still have 7 more in my RIP XV stacks, but I doubt I’ll finish all of them by the 31st. Well, maybe I would if I got of Twitter… so much going on in the country right now that it’s hard to tune it out.