{"id":11975,"date":"2014-11-01T21:34:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:48:54","slug":"the-books-of-october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11975","title":{"rendered":"The Books of October"},"content":{"rendered":"

This would have been a slow reading month, except that we went on vacation, and the train ride (which was lovely) provided lots of relaxing reading time. So I ended up reading quite a bit, including several new releases I’d been saving up for such an occasion. But I also was re-reading some Patricia Briggs, who I always like. (I just realized I forgot to review the latest volume of Fables. That’ll have to go onto next month.)<\/p>\n

The best books of the month were Blue Lily, Lily Blue<\/a> by Maggie Stiefvater<\/a> and Downfall<\/a> by Rob Thurman<\/a>, both of which were new releases. (I’m not counting the Miss Marple collection, because I am always going to love Miss Marple.) If you haven’t picked up Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Boys, you really need to rectify that right now<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Fantasy, YA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blue Lily, Lily Blue<\/a> (2014) Maggie Stiefvater<\/a> (8.5\/10)<\/p>\n

Fantasy, Supernatural<\/strong>
\nCal & Niko
\nDownfall<\/a> \u00a0(2014) Rob Thurman<\/a> \u00a0(8.5\/10)
\nToby Daye
\nThe Winter Long<\/a> \u00a0(2014) Seanan McGuire<\/a> \u00a0(7\/10)
\nJane Yellorock
\nBlack Water<\/a> \u00a0(2014) Faith Hunter<\/a> \u00a0(7\/10)
\nMercy Thompson
\nFrost Burned<\/a> (2013) Patricia Briggs<\/a> \u00a0(8\/10)
\nRiver Marked<\/a> (2011) Patricia Briggs<\/a>
\nSilver Borne<\/a> (2010) Patricia Briggs<\/a>
\nAlpha & Omega
\nHunting Ground<\/a> \u00a0(2009) Patricia Briggs<\/a><\/p>\n

Mystery<\/strong>
\nMiss Marple: The Complete Short Stories<\/a> \u00a0(2013) Agatha Christie<\/a> \u00a0(10\/10)
\nHypothermia<\/a> \u00a0(2007\/2009) Arnaldur Indridson<\/a> translated by Victoria Cribb \u00a0(7\/10)<\/p>\n

Mystery, Historical<\/strong>
\nThe Paris Plot<\/a> \u00a0(2014) Teresa Grant (7\/10)<\/p>\n

Now for the numbers!<\/p>\n

I read eleven books this month, bringing my total for the year to 142, slightly down from this point last year, but still, quite a few books.<\/p>\n

Because I was doing a lot of re-reading, and haven’t yet found all my favorite books on sale as ebook, I actually read 3 paperbacks.
\nPaperback\t3
\neBook\t8
\nMultiple Formats\t1
\nRe-read\t5<\/p>\n

I read mostly supernatural fantasy this month, but I did read two straight up mysteries.
\nFantasy\t8
\nMystery\t2
\nRomance\t2
\nYA\t1
\nI never seem to rate any of Arnaldur Indridson’s Inspector Erlendur books much higher than a seven, yet I keep coming back to the series, wanting to learn more about Erlendur. So even though I haven’t raved about that series, you might want to look into it, because it really is fascinating. (Just keep in mind that it is often hard to like Erlendur.)<\/p>\n

For this month’s gender break-down, female authors are continuing to trounce male authors, with Arnaldur Indridson the only male author I read in October.
\nMale\t1
\nFemale\t9
\nMale Pseudonym\t1
\nRight now female authors have a strong lead, 49%:32%. But if add in female authors writing under initials or male pseudonyms, it’s 58%:32%.<\/p>\n

So that’s October in books. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got the latest Faith Hunter I really need to finish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This would have been a slow reading month, except that we went on vacation, and the train ride (which was lovely) provided lots of relaxing reading time. So I ended up reading quite a bit, including several new releases I’d been saving up for such an occasion. But I also was re-reading some Patricia Briggs, […]<\/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-11975","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-379","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","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=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}