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I haven't done a lot of reading this past month. Partly because I've been going a bit mad watching things now that the tv season has started up again, but also because I read half of Deadhouse Gates, which is very slow going. I need to pick it back up, as I made the mistake of putting it down.

56-59 A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, The Arm of the Starfish & Dragons in the Water, Madeleine L'Engle. More of the Murry O'Keefe books. After Wind, they move from youth to young adult, and it's at that point that I've always found I enjoyed them more. Charles Wallace being older, and later on Polly and her adventures, I've always loved them best. I still think that they're some of the best young adult books out there, even if they have dated a bit.

60 Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose. I liked this book for the information in it, but honestly I don't know that I'd call Ambrose a great writer. The miniseries is amazing, and because of that I think I was just expecting more.

61 Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by Bill Guarnere, Babe Heffron w/ Robyn Post. The story of two of the Easy Company soldiers, and wow does their personality ever come through. Post did a great job compiling their interviews and making it into something very readable and cohesive, without losing one bit of either of their personalities. This was a really good read, and amazingly quick to go through.

62 Word of Honour by Michael Pryor. The third volume of The Laws of Magic, a really good young adult series set in a steampunk Victorian England called Albion. The three characters are compelling and interesting, and the mystery is fun and well-written. Not as good as the previous two, in my mind, but I still loved it, and am looking forward to seeing where he takes the fourth volume.

The rest of what I've read this year here