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What are your reading plans for September?

Let's see:
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Ántonia
Hit-Girl
Kick-Ass 2
Finders Keepers

Three by Willa Cather - nice! I found My Antonia to be the best.

Wow! Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is really one of the best book evere. You need to read it at list twice though! ;-)

These are the books from August which I never read. I've just copied the post over from the August thread and deleted the ones I have read.

Paperbacks I've had sitting on my shelf for months:
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Off the Page by Jodi Picoult
The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker

Books that are in my kindle:
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Ruthless by John Rector
Forty Days at Kamas by Preston Fleming
Letters to Zell by Camille Griep
Dying To Forget by Trish Marie Dawson
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Pretty Dead by Anne Frasier

Audiobooks:
Under the Dome by Stephen King

New books I've gotten after writing last month's post
Paper Towns by John Green
Keep Your Friends Close by Paula Daly
1930 Aryl's Divide - Book Three by M.L. Gardner
Embers by Karen Ann Hopkins
The Life I Left Behind by Colette McBeth
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Here are the books I have committed to reading:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro {AAB group fiction}
Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler {Guardian BoTM}
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien {readalong}
Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Zero Trap by Paula Gosling

books from the library:
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001 by W.G. Sebald
The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie (read 2 of the 6 plays in this omnibus)
One Man Show by Michael Innes
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (audiobook) {reread}

I will start with:
When the Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen (read 3 stars)
The Kiss (read 2 stars)
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien(2 stars read)
Dragon Seed another by Pearl S. Buck (read 2 stars)
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana (3 stars read)
Tidewater: A Novel of Pocahontas and the Jamestown Colony by Libbie Hawker(2 stars read)

See messages 7 and 58 and 69 and 72 and 74 for books read this month.

Alannah wrote: "These are the books from August which I never read. I've just copied the post over from the August thread and deleted the ones I have read.

Paperbacks I've had sitting on my shelf for months:
[boo..."

Alannah I hope you enjoy [book:A Game of Thrones|13496]. And Under the Dome was brilliant, so I hope you like it too.

Reading Phantastes, Deliverance and will go from there. Am only doing library books, overdrive ebook library books, print books and audiobooks at this time.

To finish:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Then:
Horns by Joe Hill
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins

Maybe:
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
An Ocean Of Air: A Natural History Of The Atmosphere by Gabrielle Walker

Leslie wrote: "Here are the books I have committed to reading:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro {AAB group fiction}
Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler {Guardian BoTM}
[book:At Swim-Two-Bir..."

Leslie, O'ConnorBrien's looks hard to understand. I am curious to know more.

Dragon Harper
Dead Over Heels (Wyndham Werewolf, #6)
Undead and Unfinished
Undead and Undermined
Undead and Unstable
Undead and Underwater
Undead and Unsure
Undead and Unwary

Blood Debt
Blood Bank
Dark Ghost
Stealing Shadows
Loyalty in Death
Witness in Death
The Moonstone
The First Confessor

If my library gets them in a timely fashion:
Archangel's Enigma
The Aeronaut's Windlass
About a Vampire

Some of the above books are quick reads so I hope to have time to get them all done.

In September I'll be finishing The Odyssey, then will start All Quiet on the Western Front.

Tentatively, I'd want to read:

The Voyage Out
The Masterpiece

Edited to add:

The Age of Innocence
Wolf Of The Plains

Chrissie wrote: "Leslie, O'Connor's looks hard to understand. I am curious to know more..."

Feel free to lurk in the readalong!

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Wow Myst, that is a pretty long list!

Leslie wrote: "Here are the books I have committed to reading:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro {AAB group fiction}
Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler {Guardian BoTM}
[book:At Swim-Two-Bir..."

O'Brien, Leslie, not O'Connor!

Gill wrote: "O'Brien, Leslie, not O'Connor! ..."

Oops! That is what happens when I rely on my memory. Going back to fix my original post now...

Leslie wrote: "Wow Myst, that is a pretty long list!"

The undead books tend to be 1 day reads so totally manageable.

The blood books are currently being requested through the ILL system. I may not get them until october.

The last 3 books will probably be october reads as sept only has 30 days and 2/3 are releases on the 29th.

In September I'll be starting Don Quixote as a buddy read with another group, plus I'm definitely going to read The Merchant of Venice. I might be reading American Gods, though I'm not sure yet. Plus, I should read Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy, together with The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Let's see what goes through.

To continue:
Suite Française (AAB Seasonal Author) 4 stars

September Group Reads:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (The Book Vipers) 2 stars
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Bright Young Things) 4 stars

Readalongs:
The Moonstone 3 stars
Sense and Sensibility 4 stars

I'll see how I get on with these before adding more.

This is my tentative plan. It always depends on what comes into the library and when. Also, there's always room for something unexpected.

Fiction
Go Set a Watchman
Dance Dance Dance
Among the Ten Thousand Things
Best Boy
Did You Ever Have a Family
The Marriage of Opposites
The Heart Goes Last
The Green Road
Fates and Furies

Short Stories
I Was a Revolutionary: Stories
Fortune Smiles
The Complete Stories--Clarice Lispector
My Life as a Mermaid, and Other Stories

Nonfiction
The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way through Great Books

Amber wrote: "Reading Phantastes, Deliverance and will go from there. Am only doing library books, overdrive ebook library books, print books and audiobooks at this time."

Amber, I generally like George MacDonald. Whst did you think of Phantastes?

I will be finishing Sarum: The Novel of England from August, then reading Scarlet Feather, The Bridges of Madison County, and The Island for my personal challenge. My f2f bookclub selection this month is A Visit from the Goon Squad, and I have a borrowed book to read, The Casual Vacancy.

For one of my book clubs I'll be reading The Valley of Amazement and then We Are Water, Arcadia, The Sisters Weiss, The Visitors and then I'll see what else I have time for. First I am going to finish Pretty Baby though.

edit: I finished Valley of Amazement and started Necessary Lies - rest of the books just got pushed down on the list!

Here are the ones I know of:

I need to finish Ash for a PIFM book

I just started Imperfect Strangers for a for a group read.

A couple of my buddy reads are:
Gray Mountain
and
Runner

My PIFM books are:
Burnt Offerings
The Scarlet Letter
and
Bridget Jones's Diary


And my library holds:
Americanah
The Boston Girl
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Burial Rites
Night Shift


That should do it unless I read fast.

Americanah and Burial Rites were both fabulous! The Boston Girl is on my TBR too

Lisa wrote: "Here are the ones I know of:

I need to finish Ash for a PIFM book

I just started Imperfect Strangers for a for a group read.

A couple of my buddy reads are:
[book..."

You have three good ones thee that I can see:

Americanah, Burial Rites and Being Mortal. Burial Rites is not just good byt excellent. some of the others you have there are also good but I read them so long ago, they have become dim in my mind.

Beth wrote: "Americanah and Burial Rites were both fabulous! The Boston Girl is on my TBR too"

I'm glad to hear it. I have been lucky and read so many really good books this year that I figure I am due for some bad ones, lol.

Chrissie wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Here are the ones I know of:

I need to finish Ash for a PIFM book

I just started Imperfect Strangers for a for a group read.

A couple of my buddy rea..."

Thank you. Some of my September reads are oddballs but I am trying to read through my kindle "freebie" list:)

Lisa, those freebie's can drive you nuts b/c often they fail in comparison to the books you have to pay for. Still you can be lucky!

Chrissie wrote: "Lisa, those freebie's can drive you nuts b/c often they fail in comparison to the books you have to pay for. Still you can be lucky!"

True. A few months ago I had over 1000 freebies on my kindle. I deleted about 600 of them after reading multiple reviews. I have been pretty lucky with the ones I have read…so far:)

I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote...

Also planning/hoping to get to Candide, for the short story read, and,
Madame Bovary for another group read.

Susie, I gave up on Don Quixote. The tales told are all so darn similar; I got bored. Keep in mind, I rarely give up on a book.......but DQ I did dump! I guess I should be encouraging you instead.

Susie wrote: "I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote...

Also planning/hoping to get to Candide, for the short story read, and,
Madame Bovary for..."

Don Quixote was a bit repetitive for me, but I did enjoy parts. I quite liked Candide though - a great philosophical satire.

Susie wrote: "I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote...

Also planning/hoping to get to Candide, for the short story read, and,
Madame Bovary for..."

Unlike Chrissie and Greg, I will encourage you because I liked it a lot :D
Loved also Madame Bovary but can't remember anything of Candide.

I agree with everyone...a little long, a little repetitive, but I am enjoying most of it!

In some discusions of the book, it was mentioned that in the time it was written many read it as bedtime stories for their children. This really helps me to read each chapter/adventure as a mini story without getting too bogged down by the overall length of it.

I have no doubts I'll finish it, but I am putting off reading most other stuff so as not to get detoured...

Greg wrote: Amber, what did you think of Phantastes?

It was pretty good Greg. I enjoyed it. There was tons of prose in it and the MC had tons of tests to pass to reach fairy-land too. The illustrations were great in it too.

Susie wrote: "I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote, I will finish Don Quixote...

Also planning/hoping to get to Candide, for the short story read, and,
Madame Bovary for..."

Susie, Candide was quite a thrill ride for me for a short story! But something in Madame Bovary bugged me and I gave up about half way through.

Susie wrote: "I agree with everyone...a little long, a little repetitive, but I am enjoying most of it!

In some discusions of the book, it was mentioned that in the time it was written many read it as bedtime ..."

Maybe it is better if you read it slowly so you don't get one story after the other.....

Chrissie wrote: "Susie wrote: "I agree with everyone...a little long, a little repetitive, but I am enjoying most of it!

In some discusions of the book, it was mentioned that in the time it was written many read ..."

I'm also trying to read Don Quioxte. I was getting a bit bogged down with it so I'm going to try and read a chapter a week and just enjoy what I'm reading rather than feel like I have to get through it

Greg and Heather and Susie, it is like you cannot read a whole book of poetry or short stories.

I am glad you found something that works for you, Heather.

Njah, I had enough. Maybe that I don't like short stories didn't help me either.

I am glad you enjoyed it, dely. Some people DO like it so it is good to hear another pov!

My September list:

Finish The Shipping News. Read The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics & All the Light We Cannot See for my f2f book club. Maybe The Dovekeepers or we'll see what else pops up for me this month. Should be a good one! Happy fall everyone.

Colleen I really liked The Shipping News, hope you are enjoying it too. Did you know it has been made into a movie?

Currently reading:
After Dark - pet dust bunnies!
Go Set a Watchman
Audiobook: The Other Boleyn Girl - recommendation swap

Next up:
5 books I "must" read for my presentation at MLA:
The Plover
The Hummingbird
and the trilogy by Vidar Sundstøl starting with The Land of Dreams

Started, but set aside until the above are read:
Raven Black
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

October book club book:
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - waiting for audiobook which I will listen to when I go visit my parents in Rapid City later this month.

Laurel , I'm reading the Hummingbird now and like it quite a bit . I'll be watching for what you think of it.

I'll let you know. Wishing I hadn't chosen The Ravens (Sundstol) for my 5th book. Should have gone with Raven Black. It was a bummer that my presentation got cut from 10 books to 5 - the other two are The Goldfinch and The Nightingale. My other 5 would have been
The Cuckoo's Calling
Red Sparrow
The Swan Gondola
Raven Black
and maybe H is for Hawk

@Evelyn - I am really enjoying The Shipping News so far, it seems a really interesting story development and character - getting to know them. It's really good as far as getting within you.

I thought so too, it's one I think worth a re-read some day

Laurel wrote: "Currently reading:
After Dark - pet dust bunnies!
Go Set a Watchman
Audiobook: The Other Boleyn Girl - recommendation swap

Next up:
5 books I "must" rea..."

What is MLA?

Minnesota Library Association