This is going to be a verrrrry short round up because… I didn’t read very much.
Those pie charts are a little superfluous this month, aren’t they?
The two books I read were:
- The Darkest Part Of The Forest by Holly Black (Audio),
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (Audio),
On the bright side – I have wanted to read Darkest Part since it came out (in 2015!) and it was genuinely worth the wait. I just love Holly’s world building and tricksy fae, fairies are just more fun when they’ve got swords and sass.
Ink Blood Sister Scribe was a bit of a wildcard that I picked up in a sale and knew nothing about at all. In the end I really enjoyed it and I will be looking out for further titles by Emma in the future. I enjoyed the modern setting offset by very old feeling magic, and it also had flavours of Alice Broadway’s Ink Trilogy which is one of my favourite series.
I listened to the last 5.5 hours of Ink Blood Sister Scribe on my mammoth drive back from Edinburgh – it was the perfect thing to keep my mind off how many miles I had to cover!
The rather pitiful 20 physical pages that I read, were a few pages of A Heart So Fierce & Broken which I really want to read, and those pages were perfectly good I just… haven’t had my physical reading brain on recently.
I didn’t even open my October buddy read that I was supposed to be doing (Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson) so now I have that *and* my November one to tackle (A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry) – so hopefully I’ll find the on-switch for that bit of my brain soon.
I’m currently sitting at 2 books behind pace to hit my usual goal of 52 books in the year, but I have smashed my target of listening to 120 hours of audiobooks!
Audio-wise, I have just downloaded and listened to the opening chapter of Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang, which is supposed to be a bit His Dark Materials-esque so I’m looking forward to it.
What are you reading this month?
Carole Finds Her Wings 