The lyf so short

Woo hoo, it's a new year. And every other year I decide to try and keep track of my reading, and then after two months I stop.
Well, here's another try.

As the main problem in the past years hasn't been the huuuuge amount of books I read (wasn't that many) but rather the fact that I tried to write a concise, insightful and funny review for each book... I just won't do that this time. I mean, if any of you want to know more about one of these books (but my reading habits aren't that interesting, really), we can chat about them in comments or something. And if you don't, I don't have to write reviews, anyway. I mean, this isn't a book blog or anything.

So, here is Lyra's super-exciting January reading! First reads are underlined, re-reads are normal.

- Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien - Artist & Illustrator
- Naomi Novik, Crucible of Gold
- Naomi Novik, Blood of Tyrants
- Jean-Luc Bannalec, Bretonische Brandung
- Humphrey Carpenter, JRR Tolkien: A Biography
- David Grossman, Zickzackkind
- Michael Ende, Die Unendliche Geschichte

[Unfinished books and chapter look-ups don't count, or this list would be spammed with (even more) stuff from the Silmarillion Re-read project. Oh, how naively I went into that, never expecting that it would be a self-taught project management/ communications/ course preparation class! *facepalms*]

at keeping some sort of reading list.

Because I actually managed to read books this month. And they were not parenting guidebooks! (I'm over the parenting guide phase, fortunately. I think I'm finally finding my own style. Moving on!)
So here we go...

What did Lyra read in January?

Bernard Cornwell: Death of Kings
Vikings vs. Anglo-Saxons, Pagans vs. Christians, Uhtred vs. Everybody: Round 6
( Brief Summary/Review; may contain spoilers )


Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Panem's Next Top Killer, Season 74
( Brief Summary/Review; may contain spoilers )


Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire
To Kill A Mockingjay
( Brief Summary/Review; may contain spoilers )


Suzanne Collins: Mockingjay
The Revolution WILL Be Televised
( Brief Summary/Review; may contain spoilers )

Also, the Hunger Games series actually made it into my dreams - twice! In one dream, I was a player in what was basically a version of the Games in which you first had to make your way through a maze with a partner, collecting keys and passing disgusting tests (this is where Ich bin ein Star, holt mich hier raus! featured in, obviously) before being forced to battle your partner to the death. Hurrah. In the other, I was a gamemaker and had to design an arena for the Games, and THEN realised that I was also to be a player in that arena (for which I'd chosen a block of derelict buildings).
I have vivid and weird dreams all the time, but books rarely capture me so much that they make it in there - so this in itself is a commendation.

And that concludes this month's book corner. We shall see if I remember to do this again four weeks from now, right? ;)