What Did You Read in September?

[abecedarian]

Land Of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction ed. Marshall R. Phil 3/5

Atonement-Ian McEwan 3/5

Arresting God in Katmandu-Samrat Upradhyay 3/5

Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women ed. Carmen Esteves 2/5

Translations From the Night: Selected Poems of Jean Joseph Rabearivelo 2/5

The Hostage-Zayd Mutee Dammaj 3/5

A World Undone-G.J. Meyer 3/5

Mistral's Kiss- Laurell K. Hamilton 3/5

Skipping Without a Rope-Jack Mapanje 2/5

Fedor's Bermuda 3/5

First Light: An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writers ed. Susan Smith Nash 2/5


Can you all say, BLAH!?!

 

[angerball]

September has been ridiculously busy for me, so I've only made it halfway through one book (The Stand by Stephen King).

 

[Anamnesis]

Shopgirl by Steve Martin-3/5

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite-3.5/5

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe-3/5. This one I read again, but only for school.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley-4/5. Another re-read and another book required for school.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte-4/5

 

[Prairie_Girl]

My One Night Stand With Cancer by Katan, Tania 3.5/5
The Dew Breaker by Danticat, Edwidge 3.5/5
Hunger: An Unnatural History by Russell, Sharman Apt 4.5/5
Knocked Up byEckler, Rebecca 2/5
What is the What by Eggers, Dave 5/5
Cake or Death by Mallick, Heather 3/5

 

[Baddie]

September wasn't a good reading month for me.

Only finished two books:
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (4/5)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (5/5)

Started on:
Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl (don't know if I'll finish this one. Have read the first 100 pages, but isn't getting into the story )

 

[roddglenn]

Thud! A very good Vimes Discworld novel
The Road - atmospheric and haunting
I am Legend - classic

 

[Neko]

Beige - An Erotic Summer In Helsinki by Kreetta Onkeli
I Am A Cat (first part out of 3) by Natsume Souseki

September just wasn't my month this year :|

 

[Landslide]

- Miss Potter, by Richard Maltby, Jr.
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (almost finished)

Busy month...

 

[sparkchaser]

September wasn't good to me either.

The Nasty Bits - Anthony Bourdain
The Children of Húrin - JRR Tolkien
Idoru - William Gibson

 

[RAC42]

Another busy month for me, only 2 books read.

The Upright Man & Blood of Angels

Both by Michael Marshall. Parts 2 & 3 of the Strawmen Trilogy.

 

[Frozeninside]

I only got through 2 this month.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
September by Rosamunde Pilcher

 

[Stewart]

1. Gifted, Nikita Lalwani
2. What Was Lost, Catherine O'Flynn
3. Consolation, Michael Redhill
4. Travels In The Scriptorium, Paul Auster
5. I Could Read The Sky, Timothy O’Grady, Steve Pyke
6. Gents, Warwick Collins
7. The Gift Of Rain, Tan Twan Eng
8. The Woman In Black, Susan Hill
9. The Deportees and Other Stories, Roddy Doyle

 

[beer good]

Good month for me, both quality and quantity-wise.

The End of the World News - Burgess, Anthony 4/5
Siegfried - Mulisch, Harry 5/5
Ö.a - Andersson, Erik 5/5
Spook Country - Gibson, William 4/5
David Lynch - Odell, Colin & LeBlanc, Michelle 3/5
Orlando - Woolf, Virginia 5/5
On Chesil Beach - McEwan, Ian 4/5

 

[Kenny Shovel]

Mostly graphic novels...

Siegfried - Mulisch, Harry 5/5

Oh, good. I've just discovered Mulisch. In fact I saw that book in the rather beautiful Waterstones in Bloomsbury yesterday. I'd of bought it too, if I didn't already have 'The Discovery of Heaven' glaring down at me from my TBR shelf...

 

[abecedarian]

Mostly graphic novels...



Oh, good. I've just discovered Mulisch. In fact I saw that book in the rather beautiful Waterstones in Bloomsbury yesterday. I'd of bought it too, if I didn't already have 'The Discovery of Heaven' glaring down at me from my TBR shelf...

Can't you sometimes hear the dust-covered 'old timers' sigh heavily when you bring new books in to rest beside them...or is that just something quirky with my books?

 

[Stewart]

Can't you sometimes hear the dust-covered 'old timers' sigh heavily when you bring new books in to rest beside them...or is that just something quirky with my books?

I didn't think yours would gather dust until you sent them back to the library.

 

[abecedarian]

I didn't think yours would gather dust until you sent them back to the library.

I buy books..they tend to have to wait in line for library books to be read first, is all.

 

[Kenny Shovel]

Can't you sometimes hear the dust-covered 'old timers' sigh heavily when you bring new books in to rest beside them...

And how long have the books been communicating with you?

 

[abecedarian]

And how long have the books been communicating with you?

Oh, just since I went of my meds..Why?

 

[beer good]

Mostly graphic novels...

Siegfried - Mulisch, Harry 5/5

Oh, good. I've just discovered Mulisch. In fact I saw that book in the rather beautiful Waterstones in Bloomsbury yesterday. I'd of bought it too, if I didn't already have 'The Discovery of Heaven' glaring down at me from my TBR shelf...

It was my first Mulisch, too. In retrospect I may have been a little bit generous giving it a 5/5 - it's not flawless - but it was one of those books that really shook me up, and I remember really having to draw a deep breath when I finished. Sort of a mix of a psychological/theological study of Hitler and his acolytes and an existential horror novel... not a happy read, but a good one.