This was a hard one to put together! But the readathon starts tomorrow, so here we go….
If you remember back to my April wrap-up post (aka the last update I posted before disappearing for several months), I finished seven books, but only four subjects. That I knew of. I never bothered figuring out if any of the other books I read counted for any of the other subject prompts.
Instead of doing that now, I poked around at some of the other “callings” that sounded interesting and then tried to see if I had the subjects to pursue that calling. After attempting a few of those, I gave up and decided to just stick with leveling up my Story Weaver calling.
But the prompts for Story Weaver are HARD! And I’m not sure I can read six books this month with everything else I have going on. In the end, I managed to pull together this TBR for September, but I’ll be shocked if I get even half of these read before the end of the month.
Here’s the breakdown by subject:
Inscription
I only need “O” level in this one, which is just one book, but the prompt is to read a book with a title that has all the letters in your first name. That’s a lot of letters! And one of them is a Z!
Luckily, the folks over on the discord came to the rescue and let me know that The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson basically covers all the letters. And it works! Plus, it looks like it’s a stand-alone. So I went with that one.
Psionics & Divination
I need “Q” level in this subject, so two prompts/books.
The first prompt is to read a favorite author’s debut book. Okay. Sure. but who is my favorite author? I considered a lot of options for this one, and ultimately went with an author I really like who has been writing for a long time. I’ve only read a few of her more recent books, and I never read her first book. So, I’m going to try that one. It’s called Sheepfarmer’s Daughter and the author is Elizabeth Moon.
The second prompt is to read a book where the same letter appears in the title four or more times! For this I picked a short one that I was planning on reading next(ish) anyway, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark.
Lore
To get to “D” level in this subject, I need to read three books.
The first prompt is to read a vampire book! Vampires are not my fave… BUT, I’ve been wanting to give Bride by Ali Hazelwood a try, so I’m going to try that one for this prompt. I’ve never read anything by Ali Hazelwood before, and this is her only non-contemporary romance novel (that I know of). So this is going to be interesting…
Next is to read a translated book! I’ve been meaning to finish the Elena Ferrante Neapolitan Novels series. I read the first two books a long time ago, though. I’ll need to find a recap of those books to refresh my memory before diving into book three, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
And then I need to read a re-telling. For this prompt I am going for another book that has been on my TBR forever. It’s a YA contemporary retelling of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park called Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins. It looks super cute.
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