Hello, friends! I can’t believe it’s October already. September seemed to fly by while also dragging along? I only read five books this month. My average for the month is usually around 9-10 books, so part of me is just like ??? where did the time go? I started working for a temp agency halfway through the month and that’s exactly when my reading tapered off. Everything tapered off – reading, blogging, social media usage. I started reading a lot of things halfway through the month and later, but I never stuck with it long enough to finish. Now I have about eight books that I’m working my way through (physical and digital), and I’m going to use October to finish those off and get some spooky reads in.

In September, I read:

• Three Flames, by Alan Lightman
• The Widow of Pale Harbor, by Hester Fox
• Mysteries of the Middle Ages, by Thomas Cahill
• Embers of War, by Gareth L. Powell
• The Silent Companions, by Laura Purcell

I am decently pleased with what I read for the month, and I caught up with everything that I had started in the summer because I was determined at one point to “start fresh” for the season. I enjoyed Embers of War even though I kept misplacing the book, and The Silent Companions is a title from my earlier Top Ten Tuesday list of books I’ve avoided reading (I’m currently reading two more from that list, and this list is serving as my TBR for October!).

I haven’t bought many books due to not having consistent work and needing to save money (and not being at a bookstore once a week for work also helps), but I did get the following with some gift cards as well as a publisher gift:

• Call Upon the Water, by Stella Tillyard (thank you, Atria!)
• Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (preordered last year?!)
• Bringing Down the Duke, by Evie Dunmore
• Flamecaster, by Cinda Williams Chima
• Nocturna, by Maya Motayne
• Roar, by Cora Carmack

What did you read in September? What was your favorite read of the month?