September Reads (& Listens).

audiobook (CD) Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett (read by Nigel Planer)

audiobook (CD) Jingo by Terry Pratchett (read by Nigel Planer)

audiobook (CD) Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (read by Nigel Planer)

Good job, as usual (there's really nothing I can say about these that I haven't said about the other Pratchett/Planer audiobooks).


audiobook (CD) Animal Farm by George Orwell (read by Richard Brown)

Brown does an excellent job providing voices for all the animals and I really enjoyed listening to this novel. Even when it cut too close to home.


Alabaster by Caitlin R. Kiernan (illus. by Ted Naifeh)

I picked this up mainly for Naifeh's illustrations (he did Polly & the Pirates) as this book had been described to me as a graphic novel and, certainly, it was cataloged in my library system as such. Alas, it was not a graphic novel illustrated by Naifeh. Instead, it was a (bizarre and tiresome) short story collection scattered with a few (too few) of Naifeh's illustrations.


Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Haven't read this since high school. Even better than I remembered.


Rumspringa: To be or Not to be Amish by Tom Shachtman

Both fascinating and depressing.


Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace

Rather charming stories about little girls in pre-WWI America.


Cast in Courtlight by Michelle Sagara

Book Two of the Chronicles of Elantra. Less of a police procedural and more of fantasy/romance, but still a good read. Kaylin is a sarcastic and fiesty heroine and her world is a believable one.


52, Vol. 1 by Geoff Johns

Even Renee Montoya and lesbian Batwoman could not make this interesting.