In The Month Ahead, I will be rounding up the books I am currently reading, the ones I will start this month, and the ones I intend getting my mitts on… if I haven’t already! I will also be sharing any news about features or posts on Books by Proxy, and anything in the book world that has me all excited!
| Currently Reading |
Oh no! Two of the above books were on October’s Month Ahead post! How very, very shameful. Poor Emma is such a small book that I lost her in a coat pocket! But after a daring rescue she’ll soon be on the read pile (unlike The Daylight War! Oops!). The end of October and the start of November have seriously reduced my reading time (yet it didn’t stop me picking up Broken Homes before I’d finished the other three) and I didn’t even finish NOS4R2 in time for Halloween! For shame indeed. Will definitely make a concerted effort to not start any more books before finishing these four!
In other news, a while back I put my name down for Sci-Fi Month, hosted by Rinn Reads and Over the Effing Rainbow, and still haven’t hopped on-board that ship! So once I’ve worked on some posts and rifled through my science fiction collection, expect some sci-fi goodness this November.
| Book Haul |
Oh Gollancz Book Festival, you broke me! Look at all these bad boys. With the exception of The Relic Guild by Edward Cox; Simon Morden’s Down Station (which I received through Netgalley), and A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn (which I won), all these books were acquired there. And Simon Morden was actually at said festival so if I hadn’t already had one waiting at home I probably would have ended up with one then and there. So my book festival acquisitions are: Richard Morgan’s The Steel Remains, Aliette de Bodard’s House of Shattered Wings, Brandon Sanderson’s Shadows of Self, Ben Aaronovitch’s Broken Homes, A.J. Dalton’s Empire of the Saviours, Sarah Pinborough’s The Death House and Al Robertson’s Crashing Heaven. Phew.. just a few books to be getting on with.
| November Goals |
To finish all the (poor neglected) novels I’m currently reading
Status: 0 of 4 Complete
To hop onto sci-fi month over at Rinn Reads
Have you picked up any great books lately or read any of those mentioned above? What are your goals for the month ahead?
Books by Proxy 
Great haul from the festival! I read The Steel Remains earlier this year. I’d be interested to see what you think of that if you read it. And I really wanted to read House Of Shattered Wings when it came out! I heard Aliette has gorgeous prose.
I still have no idea what I’m going to read this month XD I finished up Hero of Ages today (which I loved!), and I’m going to start A Knight of Seven Kingdom next, but still deciding for what after that.
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Oh I loved Hero of Ages! Can’t wait to read Shadows of Self… and the rest of the haul! Definitely need to restrain myself from picking them up before I finish these others!
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That’s a nice cover for Emma. How’s the Joe Hill book going? I recently bought Horns. I watched the movie and liked it so I want to try the book as well.
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It’s quite creepy but hasn’t been super scary so far. It is good though! I just need to have a reading session where I properly get back into it.
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OK. From what a gather, he’s a good writer. I’ve seen other readers talk about that book and they mostly say it’s good.
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I don’t blame you for picking up Broken Homes before finishing up your other books, who can resist more Peter Grant? I thought the next book was coming out this fall and was so upset when I found out it’s not actually until next summer!
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Oh no! Well lucky that I still have a few to go 😉
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Some great books! I loved The Steel Remains, The House of Shattered Wings and NOS4A2! Have also heard great things about Relic Guild, The Death House and Ben Aaronovitch’s series
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I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in! Too much temptation!
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