How is it already November??? I am having such a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that we have two months left in this year…and I still have so many books left that I was hoping to read. October proved to be full of good books, lots of great buddy reads and book club chats and I just know that November will bring more of the same.
I am absolutely having a blast being the co-host of the #mommaleighellensbookclub. We just announced our November picks and once again we have 3 books, one of which is really a carry-over from October, but it’s all good. The books are: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, In the Heart of Paradise by Jamie McGillen and The Family by Naomi Krupitsky. All the chats take place on the Discord app, so if you would like to join us, let me know.
Reading Stats:
- Read this month: 25
- Year to date: 263
Books Read:
- The Corpse Flower — Anne Mette Hancock (audio book)
- The Keepers of Metsan Valo — Wendy Webb (audio book)
- Last Girl Ghosted — Lisa Unger
- The Lighthouse Witches — C.J. Cooke (e-book)
- The Stillwater Girls — Minka Kent (audio book)
- Magic Lessons — Alice Hoffman (audio book)
- A Peculiar Combination — Ashley Weaver (audio book)
- The Mother Next Door — Tara Laskowski (e-book)
- No One Will Miss Her — Kat Rosenfield (e-book)
- A Fall of Marigolds — Susan Meissner (audio book)
- Home Before Dark — Riley Sager (re-read)
- Her Body & Other Parties — Carmen Maria Machado
- The Book of Accidents — Chuck Wendig
- The Rules of Magic — Alice Hoffman (audio book)
- One Little Mistake — Lucinda Berry (audio book)
- Five Strangers — E.V. Adamson
- The Book of Hope — Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams (audio book)
- The Family Tree — Steph Mullin, Nicole Mabry
- In My Dreams I Hold a Knife — Ashley Winstead
- The Vanished Days — Susanna Kearsley
- Practical Magic — Alice Hoffman (audio book)
- Christmas in Peachtree Bluff — Kristy Woodson Harvey
- The Wicked Wicked — Beatriz Williams
- The Book of Magic — Alice Hoffman (audio book)
- Murder at Mallowan Hall — Colleen Cambridge
Favorite Books of October:
- The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
- In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
- The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley
- The Wicked Widow by Beatriz Williams
This year I am all about the numbers. I decided that I am not doing any challenges, but I am going to pay attention to my own stats. This may or may not change as the year goes on…we shall see.
Books read that were published this year: 18 (215 YTD)
And of those, how many were review books: 15 (196 YTD)
Backlist review books read: 0 (17 YTD)
Books read off my own shelf (not review books): 5 (33 YTD)
Books bought/won in giveaways: 10 (62 YTD)
