{"id":13007,"date":"2016-11-02T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13007"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:47:38","slug":"the-books-of-october-all-historical-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13007","title":{"rendered":"The Books of October: All Historical Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t like historical mysteries, feel free to skip to the end. And if you already know how awesome Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael mysteries, same.<\/p>\n

I’d picked a bunch of the Brother Cadfael mysteries up years ago, when they were on sale, but hadn’t gotten around to reading them. After finishing the Owen Archer series, I was floundering about looking for something else and couldn’t find the book\/series to hit the spot, till I decided to read this.<\/p>\n

I really like this series. It’s one of the best historical mystery series I’ve read in a very long time, and doesn’t suffer when reading one book after the other (some series, I can ready a couple books then have to take a break).<\/p>\n

Historical Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brother Cadfael
\n A Morbid Taste for Bones<\/a> (1977) Ellis Peters (8.5\/10)
\n One Corpse Too Many<\/a> (1979) Ellis Peters (8.5\/10)
\n Monk’s Hood<\/a> (1980) Ellis Peters (8\/10)
\n The Leper of Saint Giles<\/a> (1981) Ellis Peters (8\/10)
\n The Virgin in the Ice<\/a> (1982) Ellis Peters (8\/10)
\n The Sanctuary Sparrow<\/a> (1983) Ellis Peters (8\/10)
\n The Devil’s Novice<\/a> (1983) Ellis Peters (8.5\/10)
\n Dead Man’s Ransom<\/a> (1984) Ellis Peters (9\/10)
\n The Pilgrim of Hate<\/a> (1984) Ellis Peters (9\/10)
\n An Excellent Mystery<\/a> (1985) Ellis Peters (8\/10)
\n The Raven in the Foregate<\/a> (1986) Ellis Peters (8\/10)
\n The Rose Rent<\/a> (1986) Ellis Peters (8\/10)
\n The Hermit of Eyton Forest<\/a> (1987) Ellis Peters (8\/10)<\/p>\n

Charles Finch
\n A Stranger in Mayfair<\/a> (2010) Charles Finch (6\/10)<\/p>\n

Now to the stats!<\/p>\n

I read 14 books in October, bringing my total for the year to 147–the same number of books I read in all 2009.<\/p>\n

All the books were ebooks, the books were mysteries. Currently, this is the highest percentage of mysteries I’ve read in a single year 92010 and 2015 were 34% mysteries).<\/p>\n

And male authors fell even further behind, with only a single book this month–Ellis Peters was a male pseudonym, so this puts female authors even further ahead of the male authors writing only 19% of the books I’ve ready this year. <\/p>\n

That’s it for October. I’m getting close to the end of the Brother Cadfael series, so I’m going to have to figure out what I’m going to read next–possibly a bunch of new releases I’ve been ignoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you don’t like historical mysteries, feel free to skip to the end. And if you already know how awesome Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael mysteries, same. I’d picked a bunch of the Brother Cadfael mysteries up years ago, when they were on sale, but hadn’t gotten around to reading them. After finishing the Owen Archer […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13007","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-3nN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007","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=13007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}