August 2014 book report.
9 books
2843 pages
I'd been doing pretty well until a one-two whammy of going on vacation and attempting to read Wicked knocked me out of the reading game for the past week and a half. Seriously, I haven't finished a book since August 22. I think Wicked broke me, it was that bad. I can't seem to get my brain into the groove of any book now. It doesn't help that I'm stuck muddling through what may be Octavia E. Butler's only bad book. I should just give it up, but it was her last novel, damn it, and I'm over halfway done, even if it's taken me five or six days to get there.
August continued the summer-long trend of rather middling reads, neither awful (except for Wicked, which I abandoned) nor terrific.
1. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
2. Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
3. The History of the Renaissance World by Susan Wise Bauer.
4. The Female Man by Joanna Russ.
5. Intervention by Julian May.
6. Odd John by Olaf Stapledon.
7. Sirius by Olaf Stapledon.
8. My Real Children by Jo Walton.
9. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane was the best book of the month, but even that was merely very good, not spectacular.
2843 pages
I'd been doing pretty well until a one-two whammy of going on vacation and attempting to read Wicked knocked me out of the reading game for the past week and a half. Seriously, I haven't finished a book since August 22. I think Wicked broke me, it was that bad. I can't seem to get my brain into the groove of any book now. It doesn't help that I'm stuck muddling through what may be Octavia E. Butler's only bad book. I should just give it up, but it was her last novel, damn it, and I'm over halfway done, even if it's taken me five or six days to get there.
August continued the summer-long trend of rather middling reads, neither awful (except for Wicked, which I abandoned) nor terrific.
1. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
2. Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
3. The History of the Renaissance World by Susan Wise Bauer.
4. The Female Man by Joanna Russ.
5. Intervention by Julian May.
6. Odd John by Olaf Stapledon.
7. Sirius by Olaf Stapledon.
8. My Real Children by Jo Walton.
9. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane was the best book of the month, but even that was merely very good, not spectacular.