Raw Data:
17 Books
5773 Pages
2.97 Average Rating
The Bad:
Dust of Dreams (existential excrement by the boatload) – 1.5 Stars
Fail Harder (irresponsible jackasses who should die) – 1.5 Stars
Wizard’s First Rule (clunky writing that destroyed my memories) – 2 Stars
The Good:
A Thousand Words for Stranger (Telepathic Jane Austen in Space!) – 4 Stars
Manga:
Tore through four volumes of Shaman King. Now that the setup is pretty much done, it’s shonen battles, which means some long slugging matches are coming up. Might end up slowing down my pace just a tad.
Miscellaneous And Personal:
While I read a bit more this month, it was ALL crap. My average was below 3stars for goodness sake. I am thankful for at least one 4star book.
Got Sick and kind of whimpered on for the last 10 days of the month. Didn’t read anyones posts, didn’t even reply to comments. Thankfully, that seems to be passing and I’m hoping to spring back into pure unadulterated Bookstooge Action this weekend with a Survival Saturday Post.
Did a Tag and a 6Degrees post. It was good to write some non-review stuff. Especially considering all the crap books I plowed through and then had to write about.
Surviving a Bad Book got some good numbers since I mentioned a book that a lot of people know. Always helps to stir the pot if everyone already has an opinion.
Other than that, this was a rainy blah month that crept along like a whipped cur and then threw up in my shoes. I am so thankful October is OVER WITH.
Cover Love
Once again, just like last month, no cover grabbed me and said “Worship me!”. I am including the Harpist in the Wind cover because I feel it really shows Darrell K. Sweet’s style. He did so many covers over the years and once you learn what his stuff looks like, you simply can’t miss it.
I’m glad you’re starting to feel better, and I hope you enjoy your November reads more! I’m looking forward to the Survival Saturday post. 🙂
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When my highest book for the month is only 4stars, you know it was a bad reading month 🙂
So thanks. I think November will be much better. At least I sure hope so…
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It is a great cover, classic fantasy but not kitschy, makes me wanna be there and listen to that harp 🙂
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Darrell really became known for his fantasy covers. Even non-fantasy people could see one of his covers and know it was a fantasy book.
I liked his work on the Wheel of Time series…
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Here, we differ, I don’t like most of these, but I also don’t like the WoT books… I’ve just searched Google Image for “Darrell K. Sweet” and I like about half of what I see 😉
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As YouKneeK said, I’m glad that you’re feeling better now. Also, that cover looks fantastic. Reminds me of one of those really, really old fantasy novels that smell really good.
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Thank you.
Darrell K. Sweet was born in the 30’s, so I’m guessing he was illustrating covers since the early 50’s? So some of the books he worked on might actually fit that description 😀
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I’ve had those “all crap” weeks, and it’s so demoralizing! And I bet it felt worse because you were also sick. Still, 5773 pages this month, nothing to scoff at. Great job.
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Yeah, the amount was pretty good. But it was like eating an extra large bucket of plain oatmeal with the occasional dead cricket >:O
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LOL what a disgusting analogy. I love it! 😀
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Really sums up how October felt 🙂
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Yum… sounds like a Survival Saturday opportunity!
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It does, doesn’t it?
That’s really sad…
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2.97? Ouch! Sorry, amigo. Hoping November turns things around
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Last time I had a rating this low was back in April 😦
So far, I have high hopes for November…
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Oof, that was bad! To cheer you up, I recently read a highly acclaimed comic book about Batman that sent me into a fit, I was almost frothing at the mouth… Add to it my recent streak of bad books (Leigh Bardugo, I’m looking at you!) and my month book-wise was almost equally crappy 😛
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I guess misery loves company
Thankfully, the month has started off right with a good old Monster Hunter book, so things are looking up already for me…
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Glad you’re feeling better now! Ugh, I hate a month filled with crap books-it can easily drive you into a slump. Hopefully this month will be better!
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It’s starting out just right with a Monster Hunter International book, so my hopes are rising 🙂
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I like a lot of Sweet’s artwork. “Harpist” is a bit odd, though, in that there’s no purple. I thought he had purple in ALL of his covers 🙂
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Huh, I never paid that much attention. Great, now I’m ever going to see is “purple” when I see one of his covers. You’re the best, cuz!
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Glad to hear you are feeling better! 🙂
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Thank you. Sometimes moving on is the best medicine…
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Ugh shame your average was so low
That’s disappointing. I hope November is a better month in every way!
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So far, things are looking up. Now I just need that “looking up” to last a couple of weeks 🙂
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Glad to see you smoothly getting back into the game. Hope you won’t get struck down again for a while, and that good books wait upon you during this month. Happy reading, sir.
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It is amazing just how vulnerable we humans are. One little teensy tiny thing went wrong inside me and bam, I’m out of it.
I get better and bam, I’m right back in. So weird 🙂
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