Welcome to The Monthly Round-Up. Join me as I look back on the past month to see which books I’ve read, the reviews I’ve posted, the goals I’ve completed and my all important Book of the Month!
| Books Read |
October was one of those months that’s starts off well – in a bookish kind of way – and then real life happens and it gets far too busy to even pick up a book! Hopefully things will be settling down shortly but I’ll try and keep on top of things in the meantime… which would be far easier if I was remotely organised in the first place!
A highlight of this month was attending the Gollancz Book Festival – which I will get round to blogging about shortly – where I bought some awesome sounding books, saw some amazing authors and got many a book signed! My poor October Goals have suffered though which means, except for the one goal I completed, the rest will roll over to November! I am getting very close to completing my Goodreads 2015 Reading Challenge though so… hurrah! Here is the run-down of my October books:
| 1. |
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
| 2. |
| 3. |
| 4. |
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
| 5. |
Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
| 6. |
by Pierce Brown
| October Goals |
To read at least two spooky books in time for Halloween
1 of 2 | Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
2 of 2 | Incomplete
Status: Incomplete
To read at least two books from this autumn’s TBR list
1 of 2 | The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
2 of 2 | Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
Status: Completed
September Roll-over: To finish The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Status: p. 302 of 808 (37%)
| Goals for 2015 |
Goodreads 2015 Reading Challenge: 97/100 Books Read (97%)
Status: +6% during October
Dragons and Jetpacks 2015 Reading Challenge: 41/50 Books Read (82%)
Status: +6% during October
| Reviews Posted |
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
The Few by Nadia Dalbuono
Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
| Other Posts From October |
The Monthly Round-Up: September 2015
Cover Reveal: The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
Cover Reveal: Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
Cover Reveal: The Tiger and the Wolf by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tough Travelling: Well Travelled Roads – A (Tough) Traveller’s Guide to the Roads of Middle Earth
Tough Travelling: Creative Cursing
Tough Travelling: The Good Thief
Bookish Beats: Assassin’s Creed III
Bookish Beats: Enigma – The Cross of Changes
Bookish Beats: Audiomachine – Phenomena
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten… Bad Bookish Habits
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten… Author Duos Which Should Exist
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten… Wishes for the Book Genie
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten… Homicidal Inanimate Objects
Teaser Tuesdays: October 06 – The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Teaser Tuesdays: October 13 – NOS4R2 by Joe Hill
Teaser Tuesdays: October 20 – Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
Teaser Tuesdays: October 27 – Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
Books by Proxy 
Looks like a very productive month!
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Looking back I suppose it was!
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Look forward to seeing all the autographs and new books you got from Gollancz Book Festival 🙂
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Great month! You’ll definitely make 100 books for 2015! 🙂
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Thanks! 😀
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Oh! A month with both Republic of Thieves AND Red Rising is an amazing month!
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They were such amazing reads! I wasn’t expecting Red Rising to be such a brilliant book but I’m glad to have been wrong!!
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6 books is a good amount to finish considering the month got busy for me. Happy reading in November and I hope you have more time to indulge in reading 🙂
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Thank you! 😀
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Red Rising is a great book – I loved it. And Golden Son is also excellent whilst at the same time being a completely different feel.
Believe it or not I’ve read exactly 97 books too! That’s so weird I just counted up my list (not all mine are posted on Goodreads so that will show a different figure) – and I have two books to deduct – thought I was up to 99 then realised I’ve not read 2 – doh!
I’m kind of hoping to read 10 each for the next month and get to 120 but we’ll see. December is always a busy month and lots of socialising takes it’s toll.
Are you joining in for Sci-fi November – being hosted by Rinn Reads and Over the Effing Rainbow – there’s a readalong of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet which looks pretty good. First post this Friday – but no stress to post then – any time in the week. It’s supposed to be a good book so I’m gonna join in.
Lynn 😀
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I can’t wait to read Golden Son! And that’s so weird… race to 100? 😛 I was hoping for ten a month too but last month was a definite fail!!
I put my name down a while back for Sci-fi November but I haven’t got around to planning yet! I imagine I’ll hop in a week late as it is now but, as you put it, I can totally use the tardis… right? 😀
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haha, I’m the last to put my name down – but technically, with the tardis, I’m not. Yes onto the tardis, now, where’s K9??
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