September was a slow reading month. Temperatures finally cooled enough that I wanted to go hiking again, and the insanity of football games was more than enough incentive to push us out of town. Plus, I decided to take up canning this fall (if I get my act together, I’ll write about that sometime) so my free time has been limited.<\/p>\n
In addition to less reading time than normal, we were busy enough (in a good way) that I was wanting to relax with favorite characters and books I knew I’d enjoy.<\/p>\n
The best books of the month included two audio books. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith narrates Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series, and he completely blew me away. I liked the book, but the narration was pretty much perfect. I can’t recommend these highly enough.
\nI also read Patricia Briggs’ anthology set in Mercy Thompson’s world. Very few of these stories are about Mercy, but that doesn’t bother me at all. I love well-written short stories, and these are all very good. <\/p>\n
Fantasy, Supernatural <\/p>\n
Alpha & Omega Mystery, Historical<\/p>\n Flavia de Luce Audio Books<\/p>\n Moon Called<\/em>: Audible Version<\/a> (2006\/2009) Patricia Briggs<\/a> and read by Lorelei King (DNF) So, in a slow reading month I read eleven books, which I know is more than most people read, but still relatively low for me. (I read nine books in May, for many of the same reasons I read so little in September.) This also brings my total for the year to 131, which was more than I read some years when I was in grad school. So I’m on track to read more books this year than I have in any other year. <\/p>\n I read mostly eBooks again, but there were three audio books in there, and one lonely paperback. Of course nine of the books I read were re-reads, and eight of those I have in multiple formats. (Of course, this counts the Mercy Thompson Moon Called<\/em> audio book that I didn’t finish.)<\/p>\n Mostly supernatural fantasy this month, with those books having a strong mystery element, and two straight-up mysteries.<\/p>\n I read four male authors and seven female authors, which brings me to 59 writing-as-female authors for the year and 43 male authors. With the nine books written under initials and two written under a male pseudonym, that gives me approximately 55% female authors to 34% male authors. (I’ve read a lot of anthologies this year.)<\/p>\n So not much new this month, but I really do recommend that you seek out the audio version of the Peter Grant books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September was a slow reading month. Temperatures finally cooled enough that I wanted to go hiking again, and the insanity of football games was more than enough incentive to push us out of town. Plus, I decided to take up canning this fall (if I get my act together, I’ll write about that sometime) so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-36l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Cry Wolf<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2008) Patricia Briggs<\/a>
\n Mercy Thompson
\n Moon Called<\/a><\/em> (2006) Patricia Briggs<\/a> (8.5\/10)
\n Blood Bound<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2007) Patricia Briggs<\/a> (8\/10)
\n Iron Kissed<\/a><\/em> (2008) Patricia Briggs<\/a>
\n Bone Crossed<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2009) Patricia Briggs<\/a>
\n Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson<\/a><\/em> (2014) Patricia Briggs<\/a> (9\/10)<\/p>\n
\n The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches<\/a><\/em> (2014) Alan Bradley<\/a> (Not Rated)
\n Speaking from Among the Bones<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2013) Alan Bradley<\/a> (7\/10)<\/p>\n
\n Peter Grant
\n Midnight Riot<\/em>: Audio Version<\/a> \u00a0(2011\/2012) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (10\/10)
\n Moon Over Soho<\/em>: Audible Version<\/a> \u00a0(2011\/2012) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> and narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (10\/10)<\/p>\n