What are you reading in October?

Lots of exciting stuff coming out this month! I'm looking forward to Rick Riordan's The Son of Neptune, among others.

Right now I'm rereading The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima, and The Gray Wolf Throne (another recent release) is up next.

What are you reading this month?

Ready Player One so far is a good video game-based novel.

Second Treatise of Government by John Locke for me! I am such a nerd.

I'm rereading Beloved by Toni Morrison.

I am still reading The Lovely Bones and A Clash of Kings, both of them I am enjoying very much but I don't have much time to read now :(

I don't think I mentioned it yet but I just finished Wildwood which I think some here would like. A magical story set in the woods near Portland, OR.

I just started Dracula about a week ago!

doing a the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe read aloud. and I'm in-between books otherwise.

Taking a break between mysteries to read C. J. Cherryh's latest in the Foreigner series, Betrayer.

I'm reading:

Jane Jones: Worst. Vampire. Ever. by Caissie St. Onge
Possess by Gretchen McNeil
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

Then I have to catch up on some ARCs that I received in the Mail

The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy
Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
Southern Comfort by Fern Michaels
The Lost Angel by Javier Sierra
Map of Time by Felix J. Palma

Just finished Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer. Trying to decide if I should start to read Beyonder: A World Without Heroes or wait and read the ER book I'm supposed to get soon. Or at least finish with the last ER book I got which I was supposed to review and never got around to. Decisions...

Just finished Katherine Paterson's abridgement of The Flint Heart. Fairly good, especially with the accompanying color illustrations.

I got the new Abarat: Absolute Midnight a couple days ago from Amazon preorder, and it's on TBR as soon as I get some non-fantasy reading finished.

And I'm especially waiting for The Son of Neptune coming out tomorrow, although I'll probably be disappointed in my hope of seeing more of Clarisse. I noticed I don't have it on preorder, so I guess I'll just stop into a few B&Ns and see if there are copies on the shelves.

I just finished The Client by John Grisham. It was great!

I'm currently waiting for a number of books to release and debating whether I want to go ahead and get Son of Neptune when it releases tomorrow or if I want to hold off on spending my gift card money until next month when The Alloy of Law comes out.

I read The Goose Girl yesterday, something that had been in my TBR pile since that YA Fantasy Showdown some of us saw online last summer.

I'm looking forward to the release of the final book in James Dashner's Maze Runner trilogy. I may see him on his book tour next week.

I started A Game Of Thrones at the start of August, now I usually get through a book a week, if not more, but I've only been reading that series since then and have just started A Dance With Dragons tonight. The first five (or four if you count the two parts of A Storm of Swords as one which they officially are) were re-reads to prepare for this one, I didn't expect it to take so long! And ADWD is a HUGE book, I think I might not finish it before the end of October!

At the beginning of September I subscribed to Marvel digital. $60/year gets me access to there 10,000+ comics available online, so I've been working on reading through old comics since then. Some of you will remember that when I joined, I went back and read every single thread ever posted on HE. I also am the kind of person that reads a magazine cover to cover, even if I only got it for one article (case in point, the Entertainment Weekly that's out right now with the Avengers cover). So it might not surprise you to find out that I've taken the time to figure out the exact order each comic should be read. I started at 1941 at the beginning of Sept and I'm now up to 1963, which means I've started FF and Hulk now and will be starting Spider-Man, X-Men and Avengers today or tomorrow. (This is one of the things that's been keeping me away from Pottermore.)

Oh, I also just won a copy of Cherie Priest's new book, so I'll have to read and review that too.

I just got The Son of Neptune so I'll be starting in on that immediately, finishing it in one sitting if I can.

18> "a copy of Cherie Priest's new book"... Is that Hellbent: Cheshire Red Reports (2)? If so, thanks for mentioning it. I really liked the first in the series (though my favorite of Priest's is the Eden Moore trilogy, and I don't really care for steampunk so I haven't read any of hers on that). I didn't know there was a new Cheshire Reds, so I'll have to get hold of it.

And since my other Priest books are all on Kindle, I just downloaded Hellbent a moment ago.

Also, I've got to get to Absolute Midnight.

#19: No, it's one of the Clockwork Century books, the steampunk. I'm not really a steampunk fan either, but I really like this series (also I keep getting sent free copies from the publisher, so you know, there's that).

I have just finished Queen of Candesce lately (and Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone, but that does not count really ;) ). It is a Sci-Fi book set far in the future, where people are living in kind og a artificial surrounding/environment/universe in a big balloon that's hanging in the universe. There are lot of smaller uhm habitat-wheels, not very big, just about 2-20 sqkm. and very low gravity at some of them. I really enjoyed reading about this 'world', but the story definitely lacked somehting and at times, I just didn't see the point of the acting or the connection between certain events.

I am not quite sure, what to pick up next besides Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Reading it aloud is even more fun!

Still reading Professor Mommy and The Anatomy of Ghosts. Both good, just haven't had much time to read lately. Next up will likely either be A Game of Thrones or The Mists of Avalon, as both seem seasonally appropriate and something I can sink into now that I should have a bit more time to read.

I'm reading The Name of the Star now. It's super creepy, so I'm not reading any more of it tonight!

finally started reading Tortall and other lands Tamora Pierce's book of short stories.

I just finished and posted a review of The Son of Neptune. Now it's on to Abarat: Absolute Midnight.

Foggi, book 3 of Seven Realms is out!? How did I not already know this!? I thought it was coming out in a couple of months. (Or maybe I thought that a couple months ago. That would make sense.) :P~

Has anybody gotten or read Dance with Dragons yet? I just found out it's out too. I'm still on Feast for Crows but looking forward to getting into the next one.

So far all I've read this month is Prisoner of Azkaban. Again. :)

#26 -- It's out, and it's good! :-)

I read The Mark of the Golden Dragon yesterday, and enjoyed it very much. I even wrote a review.

>26 lefty33: I agree with Foggi, it's good. I bought it the day it came out and read it right away. What I'm now worrying about is that I'm going to *have* to reread the entire series when the next one comes out (whenever).

But A Dance with Dragons had at least one scene that had me going "oh, nooooooo." You know Martin.

#28: I had to do a reread this time -- I had forgotten a lot of what had happened in the first two books.

ETA: Right now, I'm reading The Art of Eating In by Cathy Erway, which is an interesting memoir of a woman who decided to not eat out at all for two years. It's going well with my decision to not eat out at all this month, though I'm not about to extend that out to two years!

Finished Absolute Midnight and I was quite unimpressed. In fact, it really got tedious after not very long, but I waded through it to see what would happen. I'll still read the remaining books when they come out, just to see how it all ends, but I'm not that thrilled anymore.

I finished The Anatomy of Ghosts over the weekend; good, but not great. I've now started The Mists of Avalon, which I've owned for several years but never read. It seemed like a good time of year, both seasonally and with my schedule, to jump into an epic read. So far, I'm completely enchanted!

I started reading Animal Farm and I am still reading A Clash of Kings, both of them are really good so far.

I'm in the middle of The Son of Neptune now, and am finding it delightfully funny!

>> 33. I can't wait to start reading that! But I have some books that'll be due soon so I had to hold off on it.

I'm reading Death Masks and Demon's Surrender. Both are pretty awesome so far!

I'm almost done in reading The Black Ship. It is really cool:)

Yay! Husband ordered Gray Wolf Throne for me just because! He's such a great guy. :)

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag for me!

#26-29 lefty, foggi, and ejj:
I've read The Gray Wolf Throne, too, and agree it was pretty good. I've done a reread with each new release for the series. I really like this series more than the Heir books.

I started to read the rest of Maria V. Snyder's Ixia/Sitia books starting with Storm Glass. I read mixed reviews about it beforehand and can see the reasoning behind both arguments. This is a favorite series of mine, though, and I'm curious where the next book will go.

A half hour after getting home from meeting James Dashner, I finished reading The Death Cure. His parting words to me after studying where I left off was that I would like the ending. He was right, of course. I didn't imagine it ending that way.

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2 was released last week so I reread the first, and read the second. I'm glad the covers make sense now. Before, I hadn't thought much of them. If you lie them side by side, it's a scene from the book.

Finally finished A Dance With Dragons - that is a monster book! - and found it almost as good as the rest of the series, although I did end up losing track of so many new characters! Still a fantastic series, I'm so grateful to my friend that switched me on to it.

I've been feeling not-so-great, but well enough to do some reading. So, over the past few days, I've read Beautiful Days, The Case of the Missing Deed, and Wisdom's Kiss. Also Daughter of Smoke and Bone and The Cheshire Cheese Cat over the weekend.

I finished reading Animal Farm and it was great! If anyone is interested in how the president of my country handles things, just read that book.... I am almost finishing Clash of Kings and I am loving every minute of it and I have started reading The Other Boleyn Girl (I love historical fiction)

I just finished reading Ally Condie's Matched. I didn't like it that much.

#42 -- I read that a while back, and felt the same way, I think. It was kind of short on plot, wasn't it?

I liked Matched, just because sometimes I like a slow, plotless book, and I also liked the thoughtfulness in it (i.e. everyone not knowing how to write and how every aspect of your life is controlled by the Govt). But I can definitely see how it's not like the fast-moving Hunger Games.

#43 foggi:
It was!

#44 ErisofDiscord:
I like fluffy books sometimes, too. I was just expecting more from this book.

I forgot to say, despite everyone's claims of it being impossible, I've put a book on my ipod shuffle, and it works just fine! I was kind of excited about it. It's Orson Scott Card's Lost Gate. I've never 'read' (listened to?) anything by him before. Only part of the book's on my ipod for now - I'll replace that bit with more as I listen to it. :)

Kerian,

True. It's not the greatest dystopian novel of all time (that honor would go to Atlas Shrugged and 1984 in my never-to-be-humble opinion) and I thought that outside of the two main characters the other characters weren't developed as heavily. But I will be looking forward to the next books. :)

I just finished Daughter of Smoke and Bone and it's probably worth more than the three-and-a-half stars I gave it. Demons-Angels-Romance really isn't one of my favorite subgenres, but for someone who likes this sort of thing, this book might easily be a four-and-a-half or even five.

I finished The Night Circus which I think many here would enjoy a lot. Real magicians in a mysterious competition that takes place in a circus. It was a fun read.

Marensr,

Gosh, I am really liking your recommendations! I had seen The Night Circus one or two times at Barnes and Nobles, but I wasn't sure if it was good or not. I will check this book out - the idea of a circus coming out at night sounds different and interesting. Thanks Marensr! :D

#46 ErisofDiscord:
I understand completely. It's rare that I don't follow a series through to the end. :)

Sure Eris, I liked it a lot, I am glad I can help! The circus was very evocative, the character development could have been a bit deeper but I still liked it because the world was so vivid.

I also just read The Snow Goose what a lovely sad children's book. The version I have has charming illustrations.

I'm reading The Princess and the Goblin right now, by George MacDonald. Beautiful. Just a beautiful book. MacDonald was a big influence on C.S. Lewis and you can see the faint similarities when you read their books.

I just finished Angel Burn by L.A. Weatherly -- I generally don't like YA books that follow the current angels/fallen angels trend, but this one was actually fairly readable.

My fun book is Goliath the end of that trilogy but my dramaturgical reading is all about Enron and the Siege of Leningrad both super cheery I know.

I'm currently reading Possess.

But I have a long list that I need to read.

My book group read An Atlas of Impossible Longing and I started it but lost interest in finishing it--maybe it was the flood that was occurring where I was in it. Been there, done that. Twice.

So instead I picked up the latest Donna Andrews, The Real Macaw, which is fun and light, although I think Andrews has lost some of the inspired wackiness of her earlier books. Still, her characters are like old friends and I like checking in to see what they are up to.