What I read in September 2015

At Mother-Son bowling for The Boy's school, another mom, who also has a 9th grade girl, and I were chatting about how we kind of think we've lost our minds because we can't "get our acts together" this school year--the business never seems to stop.  Fall break for The Girl was this week, which gave us a little break and my fall break is 6 days away...maybe then we'll have time to take a breath.  In the meantime, most of my reading is done while doing my 5 minutes of tooth brushing every night and about 15 minutes after I fall into bed. Even then, I managed to read (or listen to) 8 books in September--here they are...

1.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire--on CD in the car

2.  Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee).  Against my will, I liked this book.  I'm not sure I loved it...but I didn't even like To Kill a Mockingbird the first time I read it, so I'll read it again and someday and see what I think.  It was interesting--I'm not convinced that it was a lost manuscript" though--there were too many issues in it that seemed very current and relevant. I think it stands alone well,  but I'm not sure it is a good companion or sequel to Mockingbird.

3.  The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)--Fiction book written from the point of view of a man with autism who is looking for a wife.  It was interesting and cute--a good read.

4.  The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion)--Sequel to Rosie Project--again, interesting point of view and cute story.

5.  Shooting Kabul (N.H. Senzai)--One of the Battle of the Books choices for our local library's middle school program.  It was interesting--about a family that escapes from Afghanistan.   The teenage son is a photographer.

6.  Kensuke's Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo)--Another Battle of the books book--about a boy shipwrecked on an island and finds someone else already lives there.  It was a fairly recent publication, but I feel like I read the story before--it was a lot like Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins ,I guess. In any case, a very quick read.

7.  Searching for Sunday (Rachel Held Evans)--Nonfiction, about the author's relationship with God and her experiences with church over the years.  As with all of the author's books, there were parts I loved, parts I identified with, parts that made me uncomfortable, and parts that I disagreed with.  A good read, very thought provoking.

8.  Demigod Diaries (Rick Riordan)-on CD in the car--can you tell I've been riding with The Boy only a lot?

October is off to an equally slow start--partially because I'm back to reading Diana Gabaldan's 1000 page books....