August and September Updates

Whoops, I have neglected to write here since July!

Here we are at October already... Um, it feels like I blinked and summer was done. *Tears*
The garden is at its end... I have to pick a day this week to clean it up and pull out the majority of our tomato plants.

I'm quite pleased with how the garden did this year. I'm already thinking about my set up for next year's garden. This winter is going to be l-o-n-g-g. :)

I think I mentioned in a previous blog post that my church was camping the first weekend of August -- that went pretty well, though it was a lot of work. I tried to help out as much as I could -- cooking, cleaning, keeping the kids occupied, in order for others to enjoy the weekend. :) It was tiring but rewarding.

Reading wise, I am at 27 books out of my goal of 52 - making me 12 books behind schedule, according to Goodreads. I feel like I've been on a roll lately, though. I finished 9 more books since my last book update.

1&2. I finished the 3rd book of the Gold Seer trilogy by Rae Carson plus read the first book of her Fire and Thorns series.
3&4. I read the next two books of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
5. Read the 3rd book of the Poldark saga (Jeremy) - I'm unsure of whether to continue reading the books or not at this point.
6&7. Read two biblical fiction books - one I liked, one I did not. I gave "The Heavens Before" by Kacy Barnett-Gramckow a 5-star rating. It was so well written and an interesting retelling of the great Flood in the book of Genesis. The one I disliked was a fictionalized tale (by a different author) of an Egyptian woman during the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt in the time of Moses. Will not be continuing that series.
8&9. Finally, I read 2 books by Neil Gaiman - "The Graveyard Book" (such an imaginative, eerie tale!), and "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" (a bit mediocre but I still liked it).

Currently I am starting the 2nd book of Rae Carson's Fire and Thorn series, "The Crown of Embers", and the 2nd book of Barnett-Gramckow's Genesis series, "He Who Lifts the Skies".

I need to read 25 more books to reach my goal. I hope to make October the best reading month yet!

:)