October-December's Books
BOOKS READ IN OCTOBER 2019
* Queen of Air and Darkness, Cassandra Clare
* Carry On, Rainbow Rowell (re-read)
* Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell
* Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertalli
* Everard’s Ride, Diana Wynne Jones
* Kings, Queens and In-Betweens, Tanya Boteju
* The Merciful Crow, Margaret Owen
BOOKS READ IN NOVEMBER 2019
* Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, Katherine Rundell
* Immortal Hulk Vol. 2: The Green Door, Al Ewing & Joe Bennett
* Waves, Ingrid Chabbert
* Tolkien and the Great War, John Garth
BOOKS READ IN DECEMBER 2019
* Batman Vol. 10: Knightmares, Tom King & Mikel Janin (re-read)
* Batman Vol. 11: The Fall and the Fallen, Tom King & Mikel Janin
* Batman Vol. 9: Bloom, Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo (re-read)
* Spin the Dawn, Elizabeth Lim
* You’d Be Mine, Erin Hahn
I’m reading less these days, and… I think I am okay with that. I put off my comics and read them at once when they’re all piled up, and I read any book I felt like whenever I felt like it, which ended up with me being in the middle of dozens of books now and taking longer to finish any of them. Which I am also okay with.
I think I’m a little tired of reading YA right now - particularly YA SF/F. I still enjoy cute YA romcoms, especially in between other books, but there were a lot of adult SF/F that I wanted to read this year that I didn’t get around to. Books like The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz, or Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, or Middlegame by Seanan McGuire, or Lent by Jo Walton.
I suppose the main reason for that is that they’re so much more expensive than YA books, and the fact that I am no longer doing adult SF/F books at work so I have no work-related excuse to read them. So… this year, I’m trying not to let my work dictate my reading as much as I usually do.