Monthly Reading Update - September 2023

Walk? In the Rain? Nope

Fall seems to be here. It's been raining today. Glad I mowed the lawn yesterday. ☂

I'm So Pretty

Hard to believe it's already October. Baseball play-offs start tomorrow. I don't have high hopes about how far they'll go. I wish them the best.

I've had a reasonably good September reading month. 13 books (although a few were graphic novels). Roughly 4200 pages. Stats below and a look at favorite books, etc.

September 2023 

General Info                September         Total (Including my current reads)

Books Read -                 13            104          
Pages Read -               4200               27500                           
 

Pages Breakdown 
    < 250                           7           57      
250 - 350                         2                    27 
351 - 450                         1           12 
   > 450                             3                      8 
 

Ratings 
5 - star                                                     6                  
4 - star                            10           58 

3 - star                             3                    35  
2 - star                                                    4                                        
No Rating (NR)                                       1                                                      
 

Gender 
Female                            3                  41      
Male                                10                   61  
Other                                                      2       

 

Genres 
Horror                                           4                
Fiction                            9                                           
Mystery                            3                   23        
Sci-Fi                               3                   26           
Non-Fic                                                  4 
Classics                                                  3 
Young Adult                     6                   24 

Thriller 1                   9 
Poetry                                                    2     

Plays                                               
 

Top 3 Books 

1. The Sandman, Vol 7, Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman 4.5 stars 

2. Space Boy, Vol 13 by Stephen McCranie 4.5 stars 

3. Saga, Vol 3 by Brian K. Vaughan 4.0 stars 

Starting September (Currently Reading) 

1. 12 + 4 Challenge (Finish a Series) – Dust by Hugh Howey (Silo #3) 

2. Start a Series - The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby (Athenian Mysteries #1) 

- The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison (Inspector Shan #1) 

3. Next in Series – Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks (Culture #6) 

4a. Non – Series (June / Biography) - Chasing the Flame by Samantha Power 

4b. Non – Series (Sept / Non – Fiction) - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 

• The Ten – Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu 

5a. Decades Challenge (July / 1990 – 1999) - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Oxford Time Travel #1) 

5b. Decades Challenge (September / 2006 – 2010) - When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie #3)  

• - The Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi 

Possible Next Books 

1. 12 + 4 Challenge (Finish a Series) - The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher (Tripods #2) 

2. Start a Series – The Black House by Peter May (Fin McLeod #1) 

3. Next in Series – Without Trumpet or Drum by John Sanders (Nicholas Pym #3) 

4. Non – Series (October / Horror) - Hell House by Richard Matheson 

5. Decades Challenge (October – 2011 - 2019) - Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton 

There you go. Enjoy your October reading.