… and only a day late!
Hey, life happens.
I connected with another source for finding voiceover work and was trying to milk that for all I could starting around mid-June, so what started off as a strong month for reading books turned into something underwhelming when my time had to get channeled elsewhere. Here’s how it all played out:
Read
Storyworthy – Matthew Dicks
Exiles – Mason Coile
Started and stopped
The Atrocity Archives – Charles Stross
Me & Mr. Cigar – Gibby Haynes
Reading
Write Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within – Natalie Goldberg
Earthflown – Francis Wren
Stress Less, Accomplish More – Emily Fletcher
I want to give The Atrocity Archives another go, as it’s the start of a long series (with spinoff series, no less) that’s widely regarded as being quite good. It may have just been me not in a mood for it, and/or having my attention split among a variety of other things this month, so the attention that it needed — Stross does a great job of packing myriad references into his writing, but at times it’s with the most rapid-fire pace I’ve seen since reading Jasper Fforde’s Tuesday Next series — simply wasn’t available. But just when I was getting into the story, I was finding it frankly a bit overwhelming to try to parse, at first sporadically and then sometimes for a page or more at one time.
Proverbially reshelved for another time.
And meanwhile, at some point I’m going to want to finish up those long-burn Reading category books just for the sake of clearing my plate. July, perhaps?
Let’s see…