February book round-up

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So in February I read seven books! Which is a pretty low number compared to January, but there are factors: (1) School started up again so I had classes, (2) I didn't have any papers due in February so I wasn't frantically cramming stuff down for that, and (3) February is a short month anyway. Oh, and (4) I screwed up my wrists, so for about a week I couldn't really hold up a book. I do have a book stand, but that really only works with hardbacks and paperbacks of a certain size.

Of the seven books I read, three were vaguely school-related (I'm trying to do more wider background reading on Rome) and four were purely for fun. Two were rereads. I've also got a couple started and not finished, as well as some holdovers from January or earlier.



The complete list (finished):
69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors, Gwyn Morgan
Rome & the Sword, Simon James
Beauty, Robin McKinley
The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin
The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff
The Battle that Stopped Rome, Peter S. Wells
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch

Books in progress (as of February):
An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, David Mattingly
Calling on Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Homeric Hymns, trans. Apostolos N. Athanassakis
The Medieval Universities, A.B. Cobban

I can't believe I still haven't finished the Mattingly book, I've been reading it since September. Calling on Dragons is at home, and I'm still stuck at the same point in The Hobbit as I was a month ago because I just don't want to read on, it's all death and despair from here on out. The Homeric Hymns I'm stalled out on because I've been reading other books, and The Medieval Universities, which I picked up as background for Dust, is kind of boring.

Should be more books read in March, since I already ripped through the other two Aaronovitch books and I've got papers due next week, so there should be a healthy bump on the list just from my ARGH RESEARCH EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE. *eyes bookshelf sadly*

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I really liked The Broken Kingdoms, the second one, because it had MORE GODS (apparently I have a thing for vast pantheons of gods who all have their own attributes and their own issues. Thanks a lot, childhood full of Greek and Norse mythology. My dad has so much to answer for, ha). I still need to read the third one, though, and I'd like to go back and read the entire thing straight through since seeing Jemisin talk on her blog about how the trilogy is modeled after an old-school epic, where the overarching plot is actually the gods and their doom -- let me see if I can find the link, actually, in case you might find that interesting too? Here, the Inheritance Trilogy that could have been.