september: 25, 26, & 27

september!  this month i read...


a feast for crows, by george r.r. martin (the 4th book in the series.  each book is narrated by about 10 characters, who each get a couple of chapters throughout the book to tell the story from their perspective.  GRRM decided to make this a book entirely of new-ish narrators.  i had this conversation (monologue) with a coworker who also reads the books: me: "where is jon?  where is tyrion?  WHERE ARE ALL MY FAVORITE NARRATORS???  i hate jamie chapters.  it is all jamie all the time.  except when it's cersei!  i hate cersei chapters even more!!"  suffice it to say, i got a little feisty about all these new narrators.  i have since calmed down.)

the red tent, by anita diamant (the first book for the book club i've joined!  this is the biblical story of dinah, told from her perspective (which isn't the perspective you find in the bible).  really interesting - a look into a world of the past, and actually not very religious, which surprised me.  i don't know if i would have gotten around to reading this without the book club, but i'm really glad that i did.  and we had an AWESOME conversation about it at the book club meeting.  and kelly fed us delicious food.  victory on all counts.)

the tiger's wife, by tea obreht (i bought this book on august 4th and finished it on september 18th because...other books got in the way.  oops.  there was an urgency around books for book club and books from the library that needed to be returned by a certain date and in that climate this book kept getting put on the bottom of the stack.  it's funny - before this self-imposed book challenge it wouldn't have been unusual for me to spend a month and a half reading a book, but now i am reading 3 or 4 books in that period of time.  because i never got into a good rhythm with this book - it's not that i didn't like it (i did), it just that it never totally hooked me - i didn't love this book.  i mean: good book!  but i wasn't dying to get home to read it in the same way that i've felt with other books.  when i finished it i thought, this was probably supposed to be a profound ending, but it isn't for me.  oops again.)