My ginger boy really wants to knock this stack over. |
I have also finished Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness, which is the fourth book in the All Souls Universe series. I was excited to read this as I loved the first three books beginning with A Discovery of Witches. I'll talk more about it in my end-of-the-month wrap-up but I included it because it's witches and vampires and 'tis the season, am I right?
I love to read Poe every year around Halloween and that's a tradition that continues this year because it's just perfect macabre reading that suits the mood of the season. At the bottom of this stack is European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss. It's a chunker for sure, but so far I find that it reads quickly. It's the sequel to The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, part of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series. I really enjoyed the first book, which I wrote a brief review about here on here on Goodreads and I'm digging the second one as well. It's not particularly spooky or scary but it deals with monsters, after a fashion, so I thought it would fit in well with my fall reading.
I'm not sure I'll finish Fruit of the Drunken Tree, though not through any fault of the book. It's a lovely book, I'll likely just run out of time. The same goes for Transcription by Kate Atkinson. These will be finished at some point in the future, they just won't make the October wrap-up, I'm afraid. We shall see.