August + September books

[clare_dragonfly]

I was sure I had posted my August books already, but apparently not! I was on vacation with family at the beginning of September... so I guess I got distracted by my cute nephews. Oops.

AUGUST
45. Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn - ***
46. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - ***
47. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer - ****
48. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - ****
49. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer - ****
50. Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes - ***
51. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread) - *****
52. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold - *****

SEPTEMBER
53. Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova - ****
54. The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread) - *****
55. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood - ***
56. Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon - ***

Comments

[kay_brooke]

What did you think of Maddaddam? I think The Year of the Flood is the only actually good book of that trilogy, not something I say often of middle books!

[clare_dragonfly]

Yeah, I definitely think The Year of the Flood was the best of the trilogy! I might have enjoyed MaddAddam a lot if Toby hadn't spent about two-thirds of it obsessing over who Zeb might be sleeping with, or might have slept with in the past, and if I hadn't felt like the end wrapped up way too quickly. I mean, there are some really cool elements to the world. But most of them seemed to be explored only shallowly in favor of people being horrible. My conclusion, looking back at all the Atwood novels I've read, is that she just really likes to write about people being horrible--that's one of the things that makes The Handmaid's Tale so great--and I will just have to keep that in mind the next time I read one of her books, so I'm prepared.