September Reading, Had Me A Blast

Not that I've read many books this month, but with the new daycare being a short walk from home, I can finally read on the train on my way to and from work again. Bliss!

I've also been reading a bit more at night, oddly enough because I'm going to bed earlier --- I need a little literature to settle down and go to sleep at what feels to me like a ridiculously early hour.

So I've been catching up on my magazines on the commute and tucking into more thoughtful books at night, and what a pleasure it is. And of course continuing with the urban fantasy kick I've been on for the last three months, though I am slowly running out of titles. But that's okay, it's fall. Time for football, scary movies, and documentaries, so I think I'm ready to put aside the speed reading for now.

Here's a sampling of what I've been into the past six months.

Magazines

• Running Times & Runner's World (big surprise)
• The Week
• Sports Illustrated
• Random issues of Real Simple, Wired, Parents, and Men's Health

Summer Quickies

• Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
• Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris
• Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
• Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs
• "Fables" vol. 9-11 (graphic novel)
• Jennifer Crusie novels

Novels That Caught My Eye at the Library That I Actually Finished

• "Good Faith" --- Jane Smiley
• "Downtown Owl" --- Chuck Klosterman
• "Fool" --- Christopher Moore

Recent Fave Sports Reads

• "Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running" --- Rachel Toor
• "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" --- Christopher McDougall
• "Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town" --- Warren St. John

Currently on the Shelf

• "Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America" --- Jonathon Gould
• "The Great Transformation: The Beginnings of our Religious Traditions" --- Karen Armstrong
• "Dara Torres: Age is Just a Number" --- Dara Torres with Elizabeth Weil
• "Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon" --- (ed.) Neal Jamison
• "Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done" --- David Allen

Slow and Savory (Bedside Table)

• "Quilts in America" --- Patsy & Myron Orlofsky
• "Teresa of Avila: The Book of My Life" --- (trans.) Mirabai Starr
• "Der Raeuber Hotzenplotz" --- Otfried Preussler
• "Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical Buddhism" --- Tenzin Palmo
• Gute Nachricht Bibel

I wonder how many of these will still be unfinished, six months from now?