My monthly round up – what I’ve read/plan to read, any events, etc:

Books read:

1. Owl and the City of Angels by Kristi Charish
2. An Apprentice to Elves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
3. The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung
4. A Soul for Trouble by Crista McHugh
5. City of Burning Shadows by Barbara J Webb
6. The Geomancer by Clay and Susan Griffith
7. After Alice by Gregory Maguire
8. The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
9. Made to Kill – review to follow
10. Seven Forges – Review to Follow

Backlist:

None – my bad

Unfinished series completed:

None – also bad

Books Bought: (whoops – went a bit silly this month! More badness)

1. Kushiel’s Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
2. Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards
3. Veil of the Deserters by Jeff Salyards
4. Before They are Hanged by by Joe Abercrombie
5. Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
6. the House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
7. NOS4R2 by Joe Hill
8. White Lies by Zoe Markham (pre order)
9. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Review Books:

1. The Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingstone
2. Mind of the Phoenix by Jamie McLachlan
3. The Silver Tide by Jen Williams
4. Domnall and the Borrowed Child by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
5. The Child Eater by Rachel Pollack
6. The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M H Boroson
7. Nelly Dean by Alison Case
8. Chains of the Heretic by Jeff Salyard
9. Grudging by Michelle Hauck

Cover Spotlight:  (I love both of these)

UK or US cover:?? (UK for me with this one – but only by a hair’s breadth – they’re both very similar really, I prefer the font on the UK cover.)

Events:

Backlist Backburn is an end of month event organised by Lisa at Tenacious Reader. If you’ve caught up on any of your backlist then call over and link up.   I find this a good incentive to dust off some of my books!

Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and Bookish (every Tuesday).

Tough Travel by Nathan at the Fantasy Review Barn 

Completed the readalong for Kushiel’s Chosen by Jacqueline Carey and started a readalong for Kushiel’s Avatar which is now in the fourth week and loving it.

Plus September saw the beginnings of a new blog called The Speculative Herald – I’m contributing a few reviews.  Check it out here.

On top of that I’ve had an author interview which is here and a ‘lovely blog award’.