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tolive1000lives · 7 months
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My September wrap up!
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princessofmanyfaces · 7 months
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September Wrap-Up
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🗓️ I've read 15 books in September 2023
⭐ My reading experience was an average of 3.6 stars
📝Most prominent author was –
📚 Books read in 2023: 92/52 - 176%
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brandileigh2003 · 7 months
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September is over, so I bring to you....
My fanfic wrap-up
(don't judge me lol)
Have you read any of these? If so, wanna chat?
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Read in September 2023
a solid month but I feel like I could've done better. I have so many audiobooks that I could've listened to by now that I just ... haven't. oh well. there's always October
Series read:
The Scapegracers trilogy by HA Clarke
The Feast Makers - 5/5
Hell’s Library trilogy by AJ Hackwith
The Library of the Unwritten - DNF
Familiar authors:
The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur - 4/5
The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall - 4/5 (audio)
Cold by Mariko Tamaki - 3/5 (audio)
Other reads:
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone - 3/5 (audio)
Bring Me Home by Roz Alexander - 5/5
The Buried by Melissa Grey - 4/5
Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko - 3/5 (audio)
The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh - 3/5
Pageboy by Elliot Page - 3/5
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magicalyaku · 4 months
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Yeah yeah, it's been a while between reading these books and me writing about them. Things were happening (namely too much work and a lot of Lies of P to counter it). Anyway, back then I was smart and made notes as I was reading, so here you go! In anticipation of my own new self-published novel I only picked up indie books for the month. I didn't even get through half of the list I made, so maybe there's gonna be more of them later. :)
Wildfire (Shania Renaud): Other than most books this month, I had this on my list for a while before. Finally a good excuse to buy it! And it's good! I have some issues with the writing. It's narrated in 3rd person, which I prefer but it's not always working well. Most of the time it's limited to Lucian, the protagonist, but sometimes switches suddenly to someone else, wchich would be fine, but's it is sudden and for just a few paragraphs and that felt weird. Luckily it didn't happen too often to put me off. Other than that, I would have loved to get a little more worldbuilding. None of the cities have names, for instance, and I'm not sure, the distances the people travel work out. Their travels just take as much time as is convenient to write about. I like things to be consistant and logical. :I And speaking of convenient and logical: Why didn't they just travel all the way to the place the wall ends? And how can Lucian sit there tied up and only be freed with two guards around after 5 days when … how did he pee and shit? And other inconvenient things? Anyway, I did like the way he was written. He actually felt young and inexperienced but not stupid. And there are some nice questions being raised about the way humans und human society think and live. (There's also a heavy dosage of slave trade and the resulting abuse, so content warning for that.) I liked it!
Hymn of Memory (S. Jean): This one was nice. Sweet and sad at the same time. I admit, I teared up a little several times. The loneliness and warm moments were just very palpable. The amount of modernisation vs the magic of the Divine was unexpected. I'm so used to my fantasy books being old-timey and contempories having no magic at all, that the mixture actually surprised me. :'D What did not surprise me were the revelations towards the end. But having your suspicions confirmed is good, too, and I was still eager to know how it would turn out. Overall, I really liked the book. I think it has good exploration of its characters and themes and I dare say I felt the love.
Of Knights and Books and Falling in Love (Rita A. Rubin): After bruising my tender heart I needed something easy. This was definitely it. Sweet and cozy and low-key, but still with some adventurous interludes. The characters are nice, they have some cute interactions and there's a cat. Do you know the Atelier Games? I only played the Arland and Dusk trilogies, but this reminded me of those: A laid-back protagonist who builds affinity with their friends by doing little adventures with them while collecting and crafting items. There's no item crafting in the book, but a bookstore, so … I really can't say much more than that. I just had a really enjoyable time reading. :'D
Wolf Willow Witch (The Gideon Testaments 2) (Freydís Moon): I admit, I was kinda lost during the first ~20 pages. Beforehand I thought, I remembered Heart Haunt Havoc quite enough, turned out I didn't. :'D I also had trouble liking the protagonists which is so weird of me, because I always crave badass heroines and then … I end up not liking them ... Which in this case is just because in real life the contemporary witch woman with her pet rat would just not be the person I'd approach. I also don't have any connection to religion so everything about this book felt far away from me at first. It got better as the story progressed and they found a goal to reach. In the end I was honestly curious how they would solve their situation. And also next volume promises to be interesting!
Whisper of Shadows and Snakes (vol 1) (J.S. Burn): (Haha, ok my notes for this one were sparse. Do I remember anything … :'D) This is the opening to a big adventure story with a whole party of friends ending up in a different world. Didn't expect that! Everyone gets their unique powers and training arcs and all that. There were some questionable plot things like, is there no public transportation in your city? Why do you have to walk all the way home? And also there just was an earthquake, so maybe don't go through a crater area in the dark which grounds you don't know? Phew. Also, with the money they'll need to pay for new shoes they could probably have shared a taxi. :'D Overall, I enjoyed reading it. It's aiming pretty high, but if I remember right, it felt like there was a lot of work put into it and it was done pretty well. :)
A Searing Faith (The Heart Pyre 1) (Audrey Martin): This is difficult. I did not really enjoy this but most of that was because of me rather than the book itself. It's a serious story which was not quite the best choice for me when I'm tired from work and spending all my free time gaming instead of immersing myself in reading. I think the story premise is interesting. I liked the worldbuilding and the writing style. It's not often authors describe the little gestures of characters while they're talking. It comes naturally to me because after drawing manga for many years my head is always in storyboard mode even when writing, so I'm always thinking about how the characters look and what they are doing. Not that I dislike usual dialogue scenes, mind you, but here was like "Oh! Nice!" What I didn't like was the heroine … (I probably always have expectations how I want my heroines to be and then am disappointed when they act differently.) Objectively, she is probably written well. Bad things happened to her and she has very little time to process. Also, she's only 16 and had a bunch of younger siblings, so many of her decisions are probably a result of that and yet … In August I talked about how much I like Will's brash attitude in The Will Darling Adventures. Rena is basically the opposite, so … :'D Overall I liked the story and I am considering to read the next volume when it comes, even though the ending didn't really catch me. I wish there was some sort of tiny tiny hint as to why it is Maya and not anyone else. Unfortunately being utterly clueless doesn't really create anticipation for me. Oh well. I do love the cover!
A Charm of Magpies Trilogy (KJ Charles): Okay, these ones are definitely not niche anymore, but they're still indie, right? I just needed a little break and read most of the three books on a Saturday curled up in my bed, like under the covers. I probably got up to get food, but otherwise … What to say about the books … They're fun and adventurous with nice characters and easy to read? KJ Charles just has this way of writing that gets me immersed and amused easily. This trilogy is not my favourite of her books from what I read so far, but I had a very good Saturday reading these. uAub
If you need more recommendations for indie books, some others I read this year and loved are: The Devil's Luck (L.S. Baird), Of Feathers and Thorns (Kit Vincent), The High King's Golden Tongue (Megan Derr), Oracle of Senders (Mere Joyce), Rowan Blood (Kellen Graves) and The Tarot Sequence (KD Edwards)!
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Books of 2022 - September and October
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I've read less than I usually do since starting my PGCE so I've combined two months here. Still feeling lazy so if you want thoughs on any of these then feel free to ask.
La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Warhost of Vastmark by Janny Wurts
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Mapmakers by Tamzin Merchant
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
The Vampyre by John Polidori
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millennialgrandma · 5 months
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September 2023 - Retroactive Words Recap
September was so fucking busy, but I finally caught a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.
Things I Read
I read a teensy bit of fanfic, but mostly September was devoted to devouring RWRB. To say my brain chemistry has been altered would be a gross understatement.
Fiction:
Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (approx. 126,500 words)
Nonfiction:
Fanfiction:
Complete: (approx. 64.2k)
good girls don't pout by thatblondebitvh (theomione, E, 19.9k)
An Exception by @zeebee3 (dramione, E, 11.2k)
Ruined for Christmas by @katsiperennial (dramione, E, 6.9k)
After Practice Relaxation by hufflepuffbaby (harmony, E, 1.1k)
Reread: Anything, Minister Granger by rockthecasbah18 (dramione, E, 2.6k)
A Little Glint of Gold by @zeebee3 (dramione, E, 9k)
Literally Just Dessert by @doodleholic (dramione, E, 7.3k)
What to Wear by @whimsymanaged (firstprince, E, 4.6k)
take a picture (it'll last longer) by @whimsymanaged (firstprince, M, 1.4k)
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aliteraryprincess · 7 months
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September 2023 Wrap Up
The first full month back at school is done. I'm still struggling to write my dissertation prospectus, but it will hopefully be done and defended by the end of October.
Books Read: 8
I had hoped to read more this month, but 8 books is certainly not bad. My favorite new read was "The Yellow Wallpaper," but my overall favorite was a reread, Deerskin. If I had to pick a least favorite, it would be A Dog of Flanders, but I didn't dislike it or anything. It was a rather sad children's stories. Books marked with ® are rereads.
"The Library Window" by Margaret Oliphant - 5 stars
Deerskin by Robin McKinley - 5 stars ®
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 5 stars
Weird Stories by Charlotte Riddell - 3.5 stars
The Cloisters by Katy Hays - 4 stars
Silas Marner by George Eliot - 4 stars ®
A Dog of Flanders by Ouida - 3 stars
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare - 4 stars
On Tumblr:
It's mostly just book quotes here. I need to get back to taking book photos.
August 2023 Wrap Up
Book Quotes: Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Book Quotes: The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Book Quotes: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
aliteraryprincess' Another One Read, One To-Be-Read
On YouTube:
There's not as much here as usual because I took some weeks off from filming. But there is the next instalment of my What I Read for My PhD in Literature series.
August Wrap Up - 7 books!
My 10 Favorite Book Quotes
The Shakespeare Journey Tag
Another Overly Ambitious Victober TBR (plus some extras)
What I Read for My PhD in Literature: Contemporary Memoirs
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franticvampirereads · 7 months
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September was a super busy month, so I didn’t get to everything that I wanted to read. But! I did read some really great books. Here’s what I read in September:
Moonstruck 4.5 ⭐️ {review}
Moonstruck bonus epilogue 5⭐️
Spoiler Alert 5 ⭐️ {review}
Dinosaur Sanctuary 4⭐️ {review}
Star Of The Game 5⭐️ {review}
Chef’s Kiss 5⭐️ {review}
Gearbreakers -started, but on hold until November
My favorite books for September were Star Of The Game and Chef’s Kiss!
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scatteredstrings · 2 years
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September Wrap Up - Things I read
Completed
here there be chaos by mightbewriting
Pros and Cons by ChaosAndCrumpets
Shivering with Antici – SAY IT! – pation by MistressLynn
Teach me, Draco by Ramelle_Kammae
One Shots
Absolution by sweetestsorrows (katschako)
Cleanup on Aisle 9 3/4 by eveningstruggle
Convergence by sweetestsorrows (katschako)
Daylight by MsPolaPotter
Happy Birthday, Hermione! by MsPolaPotter
is it me or just a dream that never dies? by AdAsttra
Lies and Lasagne by AdAsttra
Must Be the Whisky by In_Dreams
The Happiest Girl by MsPolaPotter
The Marriage Booth by MsPolaPotter
WIP
A Chance to Choose by forgotten_traveler
A Game of High Stakes by In_Dreams
A Quiet Afternoon in Belgrave Square by AdAsttra
All Live To Die by Musyc
In These Silent Days by HeyJude19
Kingdom Come by inadaze22
Let The Dark In by senlinyu
love is a kind of warfare by AdAsttra
REBORN by its_banannaz
Teach Me How to Forget by scullymurphy
The Fume of Sighs by ikorous
Thirty-Seven Years by mightbewriting
Under a Pisces Moon by sweetestsorrows (katschako)
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tolive1000lives · 7 months
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2023 reading challenge through September
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godzilla-reads · 2 years
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🍁 September Reading Wrap Up 🍁
This month I read 12 books, bringing my yearly total to 139 books finished so far! Out of the 12 books I read, here are my top 3:
🌟 How the Rabbit Stole the Moon by Louise Moeri
🌟 A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
🌟 Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
Special mention of The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim would’ve been #4 on my favorite books this month.
What was your favorite book this month?
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I had a great reading month with all these 4 star reads and a new favorite book of the year which was Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean! I loved it so much! Here's the wrap up:
Carrie Soto is Back ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Daisy Darker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Juniper Hill ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Love in the Time of Serial Killers ⭐⭐
Ace of Shades ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Perfect First ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fright Night ⭐⭐
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Fine Print ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Weight of Blood ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Little Lies ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Favor ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dear Aaron ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Oxford Murders ⭐⭐⭐
How Sweet It Is ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Second We Met ⭐⭐⭐
Mika in Real Life ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Last Housewife ⭐⭐⭐
The Layover ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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starlight-and-ink · 2 years
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Books I read in September/2022
a arte de argumentar - antônio suárez abreu: 3.5/5
a study in scarlet - arthur conan doyle: 4/5
the sign of four - arthur conan doyle: 4.5/5
i kissed shara wheeler - casey mcquiston: 5/5
and then there were none - agatha christie: 5/5
murder on the orient express - agatha christie: 5/5
a murder is announced - agatha christie: 5/5
thirteen treasures - michelle harrison: 5/5
thirteen curses - michelle harrison: 5/5
total number of books: 9
average rating this month: ~4.7
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magicalyaku · 2 years
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I spent two very great weeks of vacation in Seoul (and Jeju) with my friends and am now begrudgingly home again. I still managed to squeeze in a bit of reading time. My TBR didn't get any shorter though, because of the 10 books I read, 8 were from the library and only one of those was on my reading list beforehand. Great!
Solange wir die Sterne sehen (Liam Erpenbach): This was kind of heavy. Both from the flowery writing style and the topic of a serious illness. But it was done well and really sweet. Next to the romance, there's also a great and very important platonic relationship which is something I'll always appreaciate.
Fence 1-4 (C.S. Pacat, Johanna The Mad): After the heavy read and with just a week to go before my vacation I didn't want to start anything I might not be able to finish or too difficult. So comics it was! I borrowed all the volumes my library had. (And I will be the first one to get it once they buy the fifth, hrhr!) A fun read!
A Far Wilder Magic (Allison Saft): Another month, another YA fantasy book I did not like! 8D And what a shame, because the cover is lovely and the blurb sounded so good, but I never got into the writing style and the world building. I just expected a real fantasy instead of a "just like our world but with alchemy" and a real hunting adventure and not a silly competition event where the only action is the five mile walk from the house into town and back. I liked that for once the girl was the mysterious and strong one while the boy was the noisy, easy-going type. But I was a little dispappointed that her strength was just a "I need to keep it together" and not "I'm proud of who I am" kind of strength. And also that sex scene on the beach? "There was sand everywhere but I didn't care." Well, I did care. Gross.
The Foxhole Court (Nora Sakavic): I fully admit that I've been brainwashed. I've seen this book before and was always uninterested because sports and that hideous cover. Then my tumblr radar flooded me with fanarts and quotes for three weeks and I cried "But the cover is so ugly!!" and then a certain person went and made pretty new dustjackets, which made me suffer thoroughly, and then my library said "Look, it's available right now!". I couldn't help it. The universe told me to read! D: And what can I say, I loved it. Maybe it's thanks to the fact that I read A Far Wilder Magic right before and loathed it, that I had a much easier time appreciating things done well in The Foxhole Court. (Skip if you don't want lengthy examples: In AFWM the author uses way too many pronouns for my taste. As in several paragraphs with no mention of the name. At one point it even was the heroine and her mother talking and it would have been easy to use the names of either woman as none was used in the sentences right before, yet it was "she" in one sentence referring to the mother and "she" in the next referring to the daughter. (I know that this can work but here I was just confused). I'm a writer myself and I struggle with writing scenes like that and my beta-reader told me I use too many pronouns, so I'm probably extra aware of such things in the books I read. It annoyed me to no end in AFWM. And then came TFC with four boys talking in the same scene and it just worked and I was a little amazed. Funnily enough, something similar happened back then with The Raven Cycle. I hated the book I read before, it was so boring and the characters were incrediby lame. I DNFed it and started The Raven Boys and within the first 50 or so pages I realised that even though it introduced like a million characters at once I already knew and liked every single one better than I did with 3 people after 200 pages of the former book. 8D (Needless to say that TRC is one of my favourite series)) Back to TFC! For once, there's a bunch of interesting characters! I mean, yes, they’re all weirdos and the violence and drugs are kinda a lot, buuuut ... Neil can handle himself. Also, the showdown was a duel of words! And nothing of what Tumblr teased me with happened so far (which to be honest makes it more fun), so I'm looking forward to the next volumes!
Keeper of the Lost Cities 1 (Shannon Messenger) (Audiobook): This one is so long, omg. I'm usually bad with audiobooks but I started listening on the flight home from Seoul. And then kept listening at home while rolling around on the floor wallowing in despair that my vacation is over (and probably jetlag). It's definitely a series starter book. So many small things happening one after each other and the one big thing in the end doesn't even get resolved. But it's cute and interesting enough or else I would not have made through 12 hours. The only thing I did not appreciate as much was the amount of suffering Sophie goes through. I do like my characters suffering a bit (never say no to a cute boy crying), but she's only 12 years old. No need to torture her that much. Also girl, what's with that "I'm glad he won't be my big brother"? You have no idea, what's good! D: Keep Fitz as big brother and Keefe as a boyfriend, if you ask me. (Apart from the fact that with 12 or 13 you really don't need a boyfriend at all.)
This Is Why They Hate Us (Aaron H. Aceves): I borrowed this one from the library after I tossed another book after 50 pages because I could not bear another YA heroine with secret magic powers. It's not like I hate 17-year-old girls, but as I said in the previous post I have no patience for them at the moment. The best friend in This is why they hate us? I wanted to choke her in the beginning! 8D "Oh Quique, your summer can't be good without a boyfriend!" "You're 17 and haven't kissed anyone yet?!" (not literal quotes) I hate reading stuff like that. Luckily, it got better later. There were a lot of different topics crammed into and I'm not sure if it did justice to all of them, but in the end I think it was a decent story about finding oneself. After the bumpy start I decided to mainly read it as "life experience" (as in I'll never be a 17-year-old boy so reading about them makes me believe I can write about them better), but as it went on I actually came to like it.
Wo Träume schlafen gehen (Marta Kubis): This one was hard. From the blurb I thought I'd love it. 12-year-old girl, her big brother, an airship and an adventure? Sign me up! It's also pretty short with 200 pages yet I still got bored in the middle and once again neither liked the writing style nor the heroine ...
On a final note, due to ... things happening, I started watching Yuri on Ice for the first time ever. Between that and the other All for the Game books I think, my October will be fun! uAu~
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Books of 2022 - September
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Had a very slow reading month as I’ve started a completely new postgraduate course and shifted to full time education again. Needless to say, I’ve had a lot less time and it has been very draining. I’ve not necessarily read that much less by numbers, but what I did read was smaller – plus I didn’t love anything that I did read…
La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils – this was a disappointing read, not necessarily because it was a bad book, but I couldn’t connect to it. This is definitely a personal problem as I, occasionally, gain the morals of a middle class Victorian – it’s a personal problem, not much I can do about it – and that occurred here, so I struggled to truly connect with most of the book. This is very much on me and is not a comment on a book because, clearly, I’ve developed something against stories around prostitutes (I blame the Victorian novels). The book itself was fine, I’m not sure how I feel about the translation, but the characters were well realised for the length of the book and the plot was engaging enough by 19th century standards.
Honestly, if you’re interested then give it a go, it just clearly hit me at the wrong moment in time and I didn’t love my experience reading it. It’s definitely one of those I’m glad I read it moments, but I’m also glad it’s over…
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – this was my only reread of the month, which is a huge improvement from August, and I read it to continue my year of Tolkien. I think I’ve mentioned before that The Hobbit is not my favourite of Tolkien’s works, however, I enjoyed it well enough. I read most of The Hobbit through the new(ish) Andy Serkis audiobook, it was my first time listening to this version in full and I really enjoyed it. Serkis really elevates the book and animates it in a way I’ve never really experienced before, particularly as I’m more of a Silmarillion fan.
Warhost of Vastmark by Janny Wurts – I’m really struggling with the Wars of Light and Shadow series by Janny Wurts, it’s not so much that I don’t like it because there are elements that I absolutely love. However, there is something about it that I can’t quite pinpoint that keeps me from truly enjoying myself when I’m reading them. Some of this I think comes down to Wurts’ writing style, it’s overly dense so it can be difficult to fall into the book and forget the rest of the world for a bit. I’m always hyperaware that I’m reading rather than just experiencing a world or story. This just means a lot of the charm is now lost for me because I can’t just fall into the book without being aware of words on the page.
I’ve already said a lot about this series, so I don’t want to go into any specifics as the same problems keep rising up. I’m now wondering whether I should abandon the series or not. I’m going to give book four a shot as I do really love Lysaer’s plotline, but only enjoying about a third of the series is not fabulous when the books aren’t short and there’s currently 10 of them (soon to be 11!)
The Vampyre by John Polidori – I don’t have anything to say about this. Short stories don’t really do it for me, but I was stuck in the university library with nothing to do, so I thought I’d check it out.
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