September Sorrows

What can I say about September? It sucked. There. I did have something to say after all. It sucked because I didn’t diverge or divulge. I like epiphanies that flash like light bulbs and bring about great catapults of change. None of that happened. I barely did anything worth mentioning except a great trip to Colorado. Then Jones died. That really sucked. What else? I didn’t run at all. That also sucked. My uncle started hospice care and do I dare mention September is the anniversary month for my grandmother, father, and high school friend’s passings. An ugly and sucky month all the way around. Silver linings: my 14th wedding anniversary and two opportunities to hear Natalie Merchant sing. Then! And then there were the books. I can’t forget the books! Here they are:

Fiction:

• Babylon Rolling by Amanda Boyden (EB & print)

Nonfiction:

• Most Offending Soul Alive by Judith Heimann (EB & print)
• Life and Times of Miami Beach by Amy Armbruster (print)
• The Workshop: Seven Decades of ther Iowa Writers’ Workshop edited by Tom Grimes (print)

Series continuations:

• Fuzz by Ed McBain (print and EB)
• Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall (AB & print)
• The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett (print)
• Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts (EB)
• Tandia by Bryce Courtenay (print & EB)

Early Review for LibraryThing:

• Where Eagles Dare Not Perch by Peter Bridgford (EB) – finally, finally finished it!