September Books

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K Rowling

Listening to Harry Potter on audiobook has become one of my favourite moments of the day, I get up and get ready for work listening to the story unfold. It’s a relaxing start to the day and I find myself chuckling along to the antics of Harry, Ron and Hermione. I think this one has been my favourite so far as I enjoyed the twist, I didn’t expect Sirius to be good at all! And I love how sassy Snape is, it never fails to make me laugh.

At Dusk - Hwang Sok-yong

This book was rather wonderful, I found myself being absorbed by the story and I also find reading fiction from other cultures massively interesting. At Dusk meditates on the modernisation of Korea through the eyes of an architect that literally helped build the city around him. It’s melancholy and powerful as we explore the history of the character from impoverished boy to a powerful yet lonely man.

The narrative also follows a young woman trying to find her feet in an increasingly difficult economic climate, at first its hard to see how these stories fit together but towards the end it all comes into place for a satisfying yet sad ending.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

As a massive (and I mean massive) fan of the movie I decided that I needed to read the source material, however it soon became very apparent that the film took a very different approach. Turns out, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is actually quite boring! I know, I didn’t think I would feel that way but I really struggled to read this one. The film did well to drop Mercerism (what a load of rubbish) and to not make Deckard so insufferably obsessed with real animals!

I didn’t get round to reading many books this month, some things have been occupying my mind and I am still slowly working through Anna Karenina, I will perhaps finish it in October…but maybe not as I have an immense amount of reading ahead of me for uni.