September Roundup

The year is gathering speed and the months are flying by. September was a difficult month for reading, a lapse of focus for various reasons, but I am now back on track...

Read - 1 whole book and 2 halves of other books.

Completed -

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Abandoned - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Currently Reading - Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote

TBR pile - 71 (according to Good Reads) with 3 added

The Vagrants by Yiyun Li

The Deeper Secret by Annemarie Postma

Tethered by Amy Mackinnon

Challenges - Signing up to 2 literary courses, one of which is a one day event at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, part of the Continuing Education Department at Liverpool University. This was for #5 of the 2009 Mini Challenges, to attend a book event. The event is called The Hour for Loving and examines how crucial timing is in love within literature, including the works of Shakespeare, Austen and Hardy among others. I attended the event yesterday and will blog about it soon.

The other course is for the new year and I will include details about it nearer the time.

Wishlist additions -

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Discoveries -

An interesting article about what your bookshelf says about you, thanks to Stuck in a book for the link.

Events -

Signing up for 2 literary courses (see above)

Watching the brilliant Jonathan Pryce and the rest of the cast in The Caretaker by Harold Pinter at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool last night. Very talented, very funny and totally fascinating to watch. Off the wall and brilliant.