September reads

So overdue!  We were on vacation for the first week of October, when I normally would have posted my September reads, and then when we got back, I had to dive right into the Sixteenth Annual FMS Scarelicious October Movie Series.  Who has time to read books?  I only got to a few in September, actually:

• An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear.  Another Maisie Dobbs mystery wherein the intrepid sleuth investigates goings-on in rural England during the hop-picking season.  I learned quite a lot about hops, but this wasn't one of my favorites.
• Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear.  Book #6 in the Maisie Dobbs series.  I did like this one, a lot, as Maisie and Scotland Yard try to catch a madman blowing people up across London as 1931 comes to a close.
• Skeleton Crew by Stephen King.  It has been a while but I reread this short story collection in anticipation of the movie version of The Monkey coming out.  He's so good at short stories and this collection has quite a few good ones.
• Mrs. March by Virginia Feito.  The titular Mrs. March, an Upper East Side housewife, starts to become a bit unraveled when it appears that an unlikeable character in her author husband's new novel is based on her.  I didn't love it but I appreciated the end - didn't see it coming.
• The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty.  The final volume in the Daevabad trilogy.  Djinn and ifrits and demigods all along the Nile.

Stay tuned soon for my October reads!