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What did I say last month? Apparently I'm out of a slump. And: damn, I definitely am. I need to be careful not to burn myself out. But I'm definitely back in a reading mood (except for one week but that was because I had a strong cold..). So here we are with this month's wrap-up and I finally got around to read more than I have in the last few months. I read about 3566 pages which averages to about 115.03 pages a day. Which, let's be real, is a lot. I mean, I did read a lot of smaller books but it does make this a lot more pages read than I have read in a while. I did realize though that I probably said the wrong average page count the last few times. Well, that can happen. This time I definitely didn't get the wrong count. I also started two other books but pushed them back to the next month or even December for various reasons. One being that I wanted to read more creepy books this month (didn't work out that well) and another reason being that I want ...

TW: Rape, rape culture, gore and horror, mention of sexism and racism "Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all." Secret societies have been fascinating humans for some time now. From the Illuminati to the Freemasons, there have been plenty of books, articles, and strange forum entries written about any of these. So what would happen if that gets mixed in with magic, colleges, and human rights issues? That's when you get Ninth House. Ninth House tells us the story of Galaxy Stern - called Alex - at Yale after she had been chosen to become part of Lethe, a house on the campus tasked with the looking after and observing of the arcane doings of the "Ancient Eight", secret societies on the Yale Campus dabbling in magic and every house has their specialty. As someone who hasn't even finished high school Alex doesn't seem like she could be able to attend a prestigious college like Yale but she has one talent that got her into it: She can see ghosts...