Reading Recommendations for October 2010

*Tease* will continue as tease this week. Sorry! I jumped the gun a bit.

Invisible Things by Jenny Davidson (such an interesting series, and the writer is also a triathlete and a professor)
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs (a)
A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire (a) (read by Mary Robinette Kowall!)
Curse the Dark by Laura Anne Gilman (a)
Ash by Malinda Lo
Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (not for teens)
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs (a)
The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein (book club)
All Clear by Connie Willis (I love Connie Willis and pretty much everything she writes!)
Die a Little by Megan Abbott

If these lists are a little shorter than they used to be, it is partly because I am doing less reading and partly because I am not posting all the books I read, only ones I think are pretty much perfect for their kind of book. If I have reservations, even if I enjoyed the book, I'm doing the painful thing of leaving titles off the list, though I keep them on my own log for my OCD purposes.

Also, a list of accomplishments this year, now that we are closing in on the end of it.

1. 1 Ironman, 1 Half Ironman, 1 marathon, 1 ultra marathon, 1 half marathon, 4 Olympic tris, 3 sprint tris
2. six full novels written from 12 months ago, 3 of those under contract, and two novel starts
3. 1 community play written, directed, designed, and just about everything else--for 29 kids mostly under 12.
4. 2 AP tests, 1 PSAT test, 1 driver license test survived by Mom of teenage daughters
5. 130 books read so far this year (versus 250 total last year)