September Wrap-Up

September Snapshots

1. What even happened last month? I’m staring at a blank blog post and realizing that I did nothing in September. I worked. I read. I blogged. I watched terrible horror movies. I read terrible news stories. I basically did nothing for 30 days. Go me.

2. Oh! I made (very practical) plans for what I’ll do if I ever get rich. Last month, I hosted my first-ever giveaway on the blog. The winner was Cait @ Paper Fury. I liked hosting the giveaway, so if I ever get rich, my blog will be all giveaways all the time. I’ll basically be the Oprah of books. “You get a book! And you get a book! And you get a book!”

3. I won’t ever get rich because nature is still plotting my demise. I ran three days a week in September. On one of my runs, a squirrel jumped out of the bushes right by my foot. I literally almost tripped over a squirrel. I’m glad I didn’t trip because then I’d have to tell people that I hurt myself falling over a squirrel.

A few weeks after my near-squirrel-tripping, I was running along a barbed-wire fence, and there was a herd of deer grazing on the other side of the fence. I was like, “Oh, look at the pretty deer!” Then one of the pretty deer suddenly jumped over the fence and almost landed on top of me. What the hell, nature?! I know I look like a stampeding buffalo when I’m jogging, but why are the animals running at me instead of away from me?

4. I’m way too spoiled for this. The water in my neighborhood broke. Again. This has been happening every few months. There’s nothing like waking up on a cold fall morning, turning on the sink, and having gallons of mud shoot out. Then the water gets shut off, and we don’t have any water at all for the rest of the day. I’m a squishy first-world girl! I like frequent hot showers! And I whine while manually dumping water into the toilet so I can flush it.

Fixing the water. Again.

5. Life is like a Hitchcock movie. Have you seen the Hitchcock horror movie The Birds? My life sounds exactly like that movie. There are flocks of migrating blackbirds hidden in the trees around my house. I can’t see them, but I hear their nonstop squawking. I’m waiting for them to swoop down and peck me to death. I know they’re plotting something. Nature is always plotting something. 

Books I read

In September, I read 11 books and DNFed 1.

Company of Liars – Karen Maitland

The 19^th Wife – David Ebershoff

A Parcel of Patterns – Jill Paton Walsh

Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly (DNF)

We Are Unprepared – Meg Little Reilly

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory – Caitlin Doughty

The One Hundred Nights of Hero – Isabel Greenberg

All the Broken Pieces – Ann E. Burg

The Body – Stephen King (reread)

Adam of the Road – Elizabeth Janet Gray

The Poet’s Handbook – Judson Jerome

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing

Best Books Of September

1. The Body – Stephen King (reread)

2. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing

3. The One Hundred Nights of Hero – Isabel Greenberg

Most-Viewed September Reviews

1. Inside Out & Back Again – Thanhha Lai

2. The Serpent King – Jeff Zentner

3. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

Most-Viewed September Non-Reviews

1. Discussion: When Should You Keep Your Opinion To Yourself?

2. Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Loved In 2014

3. Top Ten Tuesday: Recent DNFs

All The Things!

All The Things! (AKA number of unread books on my TBR shelf) = 12 books.

I’m currently reading The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule.

What did you do in September?