October Reading Recap

And now for the update you’ve all been waiting for (hahaha)! Did I read everything on my October TBR? Did I finish the TWO hardcover books I have in progress? Read on to find out…

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What’s missing from this picture? That’s right. The Foxglove King and Bone Crier’s Moon. I didn’t finish them in October.

Here’s what I did finish reading:

• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh — I LOVED this book. This was one of those books that was so very ME that I could barely put it down and kept thinking about it long after it was over. Definitely going on my favorites shelf!
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi — A fast fun read that I really enjoyed.
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher — A cute young adult book. Not really for me, but probably awesome for a young reader who likes fantasy where the kid has to save the world.
• Choosing to Run by Des Linden — I picked this up because I’ve been pretty obsessed with running for the past couple years (#RunStreak day 724 today) and found this very inspiring. I’m not planning on running marathons anytime soon, but I got my first taste of half-marathon racing this year, and I’ll definitely be doing that again. In the meantime, I did my first cross country race in October, and I have a 10k race coming up this weekend.
• The Lover by Silvia Moreno-Garcia — A short read that delivered with a good spooky season atmosphere.
• A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli — A really cute contemporary romance. I was a little frustrated with the obligatory romance break-up beat at the three-quarters mark. The reason for the separation made sense in retrospect, but in the moment it felt like something that could have been solved with a conversation.

Currently Reading

I am about halfway through The Foxglove King and only about twenty percent into Bone Crier’s Moon. I was really hoping to finish at least one of these before the end of the weekend, but that didn’t happen. I’m really getting into The Foxglove King, though. If I was reading it on my e-reader I’d probably be done by now. My plan is to finish both of these by the end of this week because I don’t want to start another hardcover until I at least finish the one I’m currently reading.

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I’ve already been over these in a previous post, so I won’t go through them all again. But there is one new one on here. I agreed to read Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker as my buddy read this month. So that got added to the stack. I still feel like this is a very ambitious list of books to finish before the end of the month, though.