September Wrap-Up

September Snapshots

1. Remember that giveaway I yammered about incessantly for a month? It ended in September. Rafflecopter picked Chuckles @ Chuckles Book Cave as the winner. The book she chose was Stop Me by Richard Jay Parker. I hope it’s excellent!

2. I am the stair master! September started with me walking up 200 very steep steps to get to the top of a hill. Why would I do that? Because hills must be conquered. Guys, I have no athletic skills at all. Skinny, beautiful people were running up and down these steps. They didn’t even have to pause to die a little! Not even one of them fell down the steps! I made it to the top of the hill, flopped on a bench, and felt my lifespan shrinking by approximately 7 years. I didn’t get many good photos because the air was smoky from wildfires, but here’s the view from the top of the steps.

3. I’m so tired. Send help. And a social life. In September, I scheduled my 1000^th blog post. I can’t believe I’ve written 1000 of these things. Actually, I’ve written over 1000. I deleted most of the stuff I posted during my first two years of blogging. I’ve been doing this for way too long, people.

4. A solid hour of nonstop internal screaming. The best thing I did in September was attend V.E. Schwab’s Vengeful event in Denver. I usually can’t go to author events because getting to Denver is an ordeal. It involves miles of walking and longer-than-tolerable rides on public transportation. My dad was able to give me a ride this time. (Thanks, Dad!) He sat in the car and listened to a baseball game during the event because he doesn’t understand that seeing V.E. Schwab is vitally important. I silently fangirled in my head for an hour while she talked. If you ever have a chance to see V.E. Schwab, you should go. She’s smart, and funny, and hyperactive.

5. Pinterest: Hours of Time-Wasting Entertainment. The randomness of my suggested pins on Pinterest is endlessly entertaining. Today, Pinterest suggests that I look at Halloween costumes, book covers, and the occasional sandwich. Also, it keeps prompting me to save my ideas about creepy hallways. Pinterest, literally no one wants to know my ideas about creepy hallways. Calm down.

Wayward Googlers

Here are a few amusing Google searches that led people to Read All The Things! last month. I’m sorry to the unfortunate souls who ended up here instead of finding what they were Googling for.

“What goes in The Sunday Post?” Good question. If you’re a book blogger, you can learn all about The Sunday Post on Caffeinated Book Reviewer. Basically, you write a post about what happened last week and what’s going to happen this week. Then you post it on Sunday. Simple! 

 “The chests of heaven.” I hope you mean The Ghosts of Heaven. It’s a good book. You should read it. Though, The Chests of Heaven may be some kind of erotica novel that I don’t know about. It might also be good. I haven’t read it, so I can’t judge.

Books I Read

I think I’ve mostly given up on my reading challenges. Last month, I read 5 books and DNFed 1. That’s a terrible reading month.

I don’t usually talk about this online because you guys don’t come here for whining, but I have depression. It’s been bad for the last 5-ish months. My body aches all the time, my brain feels nonexistent, I have no attention span. I tend to stare blankly at books instead of reading them. Basically, I’m an irritable zombie with intense sugar cravings. Reading isn’t happening. (Unless somebody possesses the technology to print books on doughnuts. If this exists, I would probably read/eat a lot more books.)

Now that I’ve said that, watch me read 20 books in October . . . . Anyway, here's what I read in September:

The Last Harvest by Kim Liggett

Psycho by Robert Bloch

The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics (DNF)

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

I also made progress on my reading challenges.

Best Books Of September

1. Psycho by Robert Bloch

2. The Last Harvest by Kim Liggett

3. The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

Most-Viewed September Reviews

1. Mini Reviews: The Little Prince || The Secret Garden

2. Mini Reviews: We Are The Ants || The Cresswell Plot

3. Mini Reviews: Very Good Lives || The Ghost Map

Most-Viewed September Non-Reviews

1. Discussion: Taming Your Terrifying T0-Read List

2. Top Ten Tuesday: Has Anybody Read These Books? Anybody?

3. Top Ten Tuesday: What I’m Reading This Fall

All The Things!

Distance I’ve sloppily jogged so far this year = 186 miles (299 km)

Number of unread books on my TBR shelf = 57 books

I’m currently reading = An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

What did you do in September?