Books read in September
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cahnNot that many that weren't either German-in-translation or that I haven't already posted about or that I'm not in the middle of.
-Dark Quartet (Lynne Reid Banks) - 4/5 - historical fiction on the Bronte family. Recced bymildred_of_midgard... two years ago? And repeated at various intervals, apparently, until I was finally at the point where selenak had given me enough background about the Brontes (whose personal lives I hadn't known anything about besides that their brother was kind of a loser) that I thought it would be interesting? And indeed it was very interesting and I liked it a lot (but (a) Branwell is really a loser and (b) that poor family! arrrrrgh this book (by which I of course mean the history of the Bronte family) really did not fill my need for good triumphing and evil getting its comeuppance), though it needed more Gondal poetry :D It is free to read on kindle if you have amazon prime, although it's one of those programs where you can only borrow one book a month so I wasn't reading the sequel in September :) But now, I probably will :)
-This Telling (Cheryl Strayed) - 3/5 - small simple novella, also free on amazon prime and I'd liked Wild and loved Dear Sugar, so I checked it out. It was nice! I have forgotten almost all of it now, so it clearly wasn't mindblowing, but it was a good and easy read, and compassionate in that way Strayed is.
-Dark Quartet (Lynne Reid Banks) - 4/5 - historical fiction on the Bronte family. Recced by
mildred_of_midgard... two years ago? And repeated at various intervals, apparently, until I was finally at the point where selenak had given me enough background about the Brontes (whose personal lives I hadn't known anything about besides that their brother was kind of a loser) that I thought it would be interesting? And indeed it was very interesting and I liked it a lot (but (a) Branwell is really a loser and (b) that poor family! arrrrrgh this book (by which I of course mean the history of the Bronte family) really did not fill my need for good triumphing and evil getting its comeuppance), though it needed more Gondal poetry :D It is free to read on kindle if you have amazon prime, although it's one of those programs where you can only borrow one book a month so I wasn't reading the sequel in September :) But now, I probably will :)-This Telling (Cheryl Strayed) - 3/5 - small simple novella, also free on amazon prime and I'd liked Wild and loved Dear Sugar, so I checked it out. It was nice! I have forgotten almost all of it now, so it clearly wasn't mindblowing, but it was a good and easy read, and compassionate in that way Strayed is.
