The year is flying by – it’s already October and shops are full of both Halloween and Christmas stuff!
What I read
September was also a bit slow for reading, I did a lot of listening, though. I’ve dropped back to 9 ahead for my target of 150, so I can’t afford to slack too much for the rest of the year.
There was one library book, and one BABAL* which isn’t bad, but also seven of the ten were re-reads. (For anyone wondering how I can enjoy re-reading so much, I am on my fourth reading of the Harper Connelly books and yet I still couldn’t remember who the killers were… so it’s often very much like enjoying them for the first time.)
I read:
- Q is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone #17) – Sue Grafton
- Wedding Bells for the East End Library Girls (Library Girls #5) – Patricia McBride
- Mr Galliano’s Circus
- R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone #18) – Sue Grafton
- Grave Sight (Harper Connelly #1) – Charlaine Harris
- Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly #2) – Charlaine Harris
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages – Jenny Colgan
- S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone #19) – Sue Grafton
- T is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone #20) – Sue Grafton
I ended the month still working through:
- Hollow Tree House
- The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon #6) – Dan Brown
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson
What I watched
- We have been watching Only Connect and Richard Osman’s House of Games as well as Taskmaster.
- With Brodie we have watched Ninja Warrior UK, The Floor is Lava, and Lego Masters Jr. We also watched Lord of the Rings The Two Towers and Return of the King together.
- I’ve watched a bit of Byker Grove but I’m still in the late 90s.
- My sister and I still didn’t finish And Just Like That – but we’re nearly there.
- I got together with my mum and sister (and plenty of snacks) to watch The Thursday Murder Club. The consensus was that although it was enjoyable it wasn’t as good as the book.
What I did
- We went bowling, the first time since a bowling alley opened here a couple of years ago. I played with the bumpers on and still didn’t score all that well.
- Stef visited me, but we had a fairly quiet time as I think we were both tired! We of course went to St Andrews (and had our traditional Nando’s, which goes back about 12 or 13 years and a time when there were no Nando’s in this part of the world and so we always had one when I visited London). We also did exciting things like go to a garden centre for lunch and a wander, and also an antiques centre, also for lunch and a wander.
- We went on a much longer walk than we expected and didn’t find any geocaches, but we did spot 8 pumpkins on a pumpkin trail.
How was your September?
*Books About Bookshops and Libraries
Fiona
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worldofblyton
World of Blyton 
I read Hollow Tree House in September – and it is one of the my absolute favourites. As a kid, Secret Island was almost certainly – I was about to say ‘my favourite standalone;, but that isn’t right Although, I thought it was a standalone and I’ve never read another and I think I’ve heard that it is very different from the sequels – a favourite. But, I think that they are radically different. I enjoy the ‘preachiness’ or HTH and the inventiveness of Secret Island.
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Yes, The Secret Island is very different to the rest of the series. It almost does feel like a stand alone! I can’t think of any other Blyton series where one book stands out as so different from the others – all her other series have a formula which every book sticks to.
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So how is the new Dan Brown novel?
It’s in my amazon.de market basket for my annual amazon order in December.
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I didn’t think it was as good as any of the other books in the series. It didn’t have the things I liked most – the historical symbology. Instead it was all about noetics and I feel like a good 50 pages of them going on about human consciousness and brain activity could have been cut.
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