September 2019 Month-in-Review

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