What are you currently reading?
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
What did you just finish reading?
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
What do you think you’ll read next?
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Rump by Liesel Shurtliff
Welcome to the first day of October! For those of you that missed it on Tumblr, I completely revamped my TBR list and filled it with all things thriller, fantasy or fall-themed (with the exception of a few books I that have a deadline). We’ll see how many I can get through before the clock strikes midnight on Halloween!
What are you currently reading?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
What did you just finish reading?
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
What do you think you’ll read next?
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
I can’t believe tomorrow is already October. We’ve been in Dallas a month and a half, and things are finally starting to cool down. Or…at least as much as Texas cools. The State Fair just opened up, and my lucky husband gets to take a work trip over there today. I’m so jealous! Hopefully we can make it over there soon.
I read a ton of books great books this month. Now that I’ve set a schedule for myself, I’m getting quite a variety again. And I’m allowing myself to ditch books if they aren’t up to par, which I had stopped doing at one point. Gotta stop wasting time. Some books just aren’t blog-worthy.
(Which, on that point. Aaron’s Rod is on the list below, but I’m not going to do a post about it. I got about 65% through it before I had to give it up. Far enough to count it as “read” but I’m not going to bore you guys with a terrible post. Not DH Lawrence’s best work, let’s leave it at that.)
And now, the books!
Read this month:
Throne of Glass by Sarah Mass
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Atlantia by Ally Condie
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (which didn’t make it onto the list in the picture…oops!)
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Aaron’s Rod by DH Lawrence
Welp, it’s been a fun two weeks. The September Readathon was a success in my opinion!
Here’s what I came out with:
2997 pages total
6 total books read + a few partials
Atlantia by Ally Condie
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Winter’s Tale by Mark Hellprin
The Protector by Gennita Low
Short Fiction Classic and Contemporary: Sixth Edition
Aaron’s Rod by DH Lawrence
I also finished quite a few of the challenges! You can check those out HERE.
I received an invite to a new Goodreads Bookclub called BookClubFiction the other day. Because I can’t refuse a request like that of course I had to pick up September’s book…even if I only had a few days before the end of the time period! After finishing The Name of the Rose…that left, well, today. No big deal, right?
Hubby has spent the afternoon flipping through college football, and we’ve been completely lazy all day long. Perfect for a little speed reading.
And Bird Box was a great book to do in a day. This is a very M. Night Shyamalan kind of book. Think The Village or The Happening. Something is out there, causing people to kill themselves….but no one knows what it is. The book refers to them as “creatures,” but pretty much people are going insane after they see…things.
I devoured this book by Josh Malerman. It’s very post-apocalyptic, and so so creepy. I love these dystopian-type books that are almost zombie-like, except the monster is an unnamed enemy. They are chilling, because we don’t really know what is going to end our society, we just know that eventually, something is going to end it. It’s the same feeling I had after reading Not a Drop to Drink, and watching The Last Ship.
This is an adult dystopian. There’s no weird love triangle, and it’s very very bloody. They also describe childbirth in all it’s gory wonderfulness, so just be prepared for that. Also, as I stated before, people kill themselves, and there are descriptions on how they do so.
Towards the end, I thought this was ramping up for a sequel, and I wouldn’t be surprised if one was written, but there’s not a huge cliffhanger at the end. Malerman did wrap it up pretty cleanly. I would like to see what happens next and would definitely read a second book if there was one. I’m not sure I would want to see a movie on this–I think it would end up being too much of a slasher instead of the psychological thriller that the book is.
Check this out if you are a Stephen King fan, or if you liked Mindy McGinnis. You’ll appreciate this one too!
As I Lay Reading 