October - my Favorite Month and a good time for a rethink

 As predicted. . . grad school kicked my behind at least in terms of side reading. Overall, it's good and it's worth having to readjust my patterns. However, it feels like I started class in August and I'm just now poking my head up to breath. I only really read 3 books in August and 4 in September which is really just pitiful for me especially considering that 2 of them were books I read with Thomas for bedtime reading. 

I think moving forward, at least during the regular school year, all my reading needs to be for relaxation. It's not about mental fiber right now, it has to be about mind candy and holding on to my sanity. Unfortunately, I didn't come to this conclusion by the time TBR came up with a new round of books (probably because I never got around to reading the previous round) so those still look moderately meaty but I'll get it fixed for next time around. Any way this is a pretty much all new list full of things I really want to read and should mostly be quick books to get through. My goal is to get my reading rate back up to around 8 books per month. I'll worry about catching up ... later.

1. The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (already started but a slow read)
2. Rise of the School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (Prequel to Series)
3. Even As We Breathe: A Novel by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Previous TBR)
4. The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
1. City of Bones (finished 9/29/23)
2. City of Ashes (finished 10/1/23)
3. City of Glass (finished 10/5/23)
4. City of Fallen Angels (finished 10/12/23)
5. City of Lost Souls (finished 10/16/23)
6. City of Heavenly Fire
5. The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
1. Clockwork Angel
2. Clockwork Prince
3. Clockwork Princess
6. Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate
1. Vol 1 (Finished 10/6/23)
2. Vol 2 (Finished 10/7/23)
3. Vol 3 (Finished 10/7/23)
7. We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (Current TBR)
8. Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett (Current TBR)
9. Early American Cookery or Ye Gentlewomans Housewifery by Margaret Huntingotn Hooker 
10. Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (Current TBR)
11. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (The new Thomas Bedtime book)
12. The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon (finished 10/19/23)
13. The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
14. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Previous TBR)
15. Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Vol 1 by Fujino Omori
16. First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
17. The Story Behind: The extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects by Emily Prokop (borrowed from Bruce)
18. Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (Previous TBR)
19. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
20. The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier