October in SoCal is not what it was in my earlier years. The leaves don't turn colors or fall until November. I don't have kids or grandkids around to carve pumpkins with or dress up in costumes. This year it was heat and more heat, fires near my loved ones in NoCal (one family lost a home), but thankfully lots of good reading.
Stats: 10 books read. 7 fiction. 5 written by women. 3 for My Big Fat Reading Project. 3 mystery/crime/thriller. 3 nonfiction. 2 biography.
Favorites: Edgar & Lucy, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Reckless.
Least favorites: none, I liked them all!
Here is what I read:
How was your October reading? Favorites? Recommendations?
Ten books a month is a lot of reading. You read good quality too.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I read pretty hard, Carmen! What have you been reading lately?
DeleteThe Twelve Caesars by Suetonius. I've been reading it since the beginning of September, but between me having almost no energy and being brain scattered, plus watching movies and a TV season a week for my Snapshots feature, I think time has slipped by and I haven't yet finished a book that is only 412 pages long. I have to say, however, that I tend to read nonfiction even more slowly than fiction (if that's possible) because I go over chapters more than once and I read and re-read the same book for notes before I commit to writing the review.
DeleteSorry to hear about you having almost no energy but I admire all the work you do when reading and writing about nonfiction titles. That said, nonfiction usually takes me about 3 or 4 times as long to read as fiction. I like it for all the learning I get but I have to put novels in the mix. I guess you do that with movies and TV seasons.
DeleteI know, right?
DeleteYou could say that, but I would prefer to do more reading as used to be the case. 😉
DeleteOhh the fires in Calif. were just awful. I hope the whole state gets some good rain soon. You read a really good mix of books in Oct.; that's wonderful how different they all are. Great as palette cleansers. & Hooray for Reckless. Chrissie I felt was quite modest in her book / man she had songs that rocked ... & she had the voice for them. she didn't give herself enough credit, i thought. lol.
ReplyDeleteAh Chrissie. A complex woman I thought. Next up are the Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks biographies just coming out. I can't wait!
DeleteI am sorry to hear there have been more fires - I hope there is rain soon. Glad to see you've been doing lots of good reading though. Last month, I only managed an average amount of books, but they were all great!
ReplyDeleteReading is the medicine for everything, isn't it?
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