For once, September was a nice, chill, easy month with plenty of time for reading and blogging . . . Ha! Just kidding. September was crazy again. Any pace that allows me to keep up with reading and blogging (and, uh, family time) is sustainable. no-angel, by the way, started walking this month. She remains a remarkably dutiful child, is starting to babble, and is the star of her swim class.
It was business as usual around the blogs. September was a bit of a step back, view-wise, at Every Day Should Be Tuesday, but it was by no means a bad month. It was also my fifth-best month ever at Hillbilly Highways.
After three straight months finishing nine books, I finished eight books in September. Not bad for during the semester. Sadly, Mount TBR isn’t going anywhere. I picked up an anomalous number of review copies. (Mount TBR would have gone down but for a review copy of Wes Chu’s Typhoon.) October will be a good time to polish off that pile of review copies, especially since several are of the spooky variety. Look for reviews of three Hallowreads this month.
September Reviews
- The Harp of Kings by Juliet Marillier
- Desper Hollow by Elizabeth Massie (Hillbilly Highways)
- Dark Forge by Miles Cameron
- Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke (Hillbilly Highways)
Top 5 Posts at Every Day Should Be Tuesday
- Wheel of Time TV Show Casts Lan
- Review of Dark Forge by Miles Cameron
- Vintage Science Fiction Month: Science Fiction’s Family Tree
- The Harp of Kings is a character-driven, Celtic fantasy
- August 2019 Month-in-Review
Top 5 Posts at Hillbilly Highways
- Music Monday: Okie From Muskogee by Merle Haggard
- Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Spooky Country Noir Reads
- SF: Desper Hollow by Elizabeth Massie
- Music Monday: I’m No Angel by Gregg Allman
- New Music Friday: Sound and Fury by Sturgill Simpson
Books acquired
- Desper Hollow by Elizabeth Massie (review copy)
- Harlan County Horrors, edited by Mari Adkins (review copy)
- Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger (review copy)
- StoryHack no. 3, edited by Bryce Beattie (review copy)
- Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke (review copy)
- Dark Forge by Miles Cameron
- Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh
- Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead: Typhoon by Wes Chu (review copy)
Books started
- Wrath by John Gwynne
- Desper Hollow by Elizabeth Massie
- Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
- Dark Forge by Miles Cameron
- Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
- Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh
Books finished
- The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart
- Wrath by John Gwynne
- Broadswords and Blasters no. 6, edited by Matthew X. Gomez and Cameron Mount
- Desper Hollow by Elizabeth Massie
- Dark Forge by Miles Cameron
- Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
- Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh
- We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
Mount TBR Counter
- September: +0
- Year-to-date: +0
Reblogged this on Hillbilly Highways and commented:
Check out which posts at Hillbilly Highways were most popular last month and find out what I’ve been reading here:
LikeLike
Wrath, eh? I sure hope you’re keeping track of page numbers as well as books. Those massive tomes will sink you quick as the Titanic 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Goodreads tracks books and pages. I have already read more books than I did in all of 2018, but I’m still behind on pages.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like using both for my metric. Helps even out either reading a bunch of massive tomes (ie, Wrath) or a bunch of short books.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Pingback: October 2019 Month-in-Review and Blog Update | Every Day Should Be Tuesday
Pingback: October Month-in-Review and Blog Update – Hillbilly Highways