too many winged creatures

Hey, remember when I was complaining about Myste last week? That's minor compared to the Lackey books I'm reading now (Winds of Change, Winds of Fury - that trilogy). I mean, I'll take Mary Sue characters any day, compared to Mary Sue characters (now that Elspeth's the main character, she has become brilliant and psychically gifted) who spend all their time around a bunch of dratted, telepathic birds and gryphons. Really, I just don't get the appeal of birds as companion animals. So I have been wildly skimming these books.
So, why am I still re-reading? Well, partly because I'm determined to get through the month without re-reading any books - a week or two ago, I realized that that was the case, and I like the idea of once having a month with no re-reads.
The reason why a month is relevant is because I have a notebook with every book I've read for the last three or four years. Each month has its own section, and each new book I read is noted as such. So - yeah, that would be neat.
ETA: I should say that these books I'm wildly skimming won't end up on the list of books I've read this month, of course, because I skimmed them. It's just that if I don't read these at all, I won't understand the next trilogy, because a bunch of these irritating characters will be dragged into scenes with characters I like. It's just so messy - I mean, Lackey has thrown mages and magical creatures and a half-cat-woman and psychic powers and queens and horses in, like some sort of ghastly pick-one-from-each-column fantasy mishmash.