Happy November! That extra hour of sleep sure felt great didn’t it? Always one of the best weekends of the year. Or did you spend the extra hour reading? I’m fairly happy with my stats this month, and I was really excited about my results for the R.I.P. Challenge. I ended up reading 22 books for it when usually I just get the minimum. Anyway for October, I read 11 books and 3900 pages. My favorite read was The Hungry Tide, and my spookiest read was Heart-Shaped Box Box. Joe Hill is really following in his father’s footsteps. If you like Stephen King, definitely read Joe Hill. My books were as follows:
- Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (2003, 272 pp.)
- Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris (2004, 291 pp.)
- Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill (2007, 384 pp.) - The Inhabited World by David Long (2006, 288 pp.)
- The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh (2005, 352 pp.)
- The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (2008, 384 pp.)
- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (2006, 400 pp.)
- The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins (2008, 274pp.) - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009, 391 pp.)
- Vampire Knight Vol 1 by Matsuri Hino (2007, 208 pp.)
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005, 656 pp.)
As you can see, I’m SO FAR behind on my reviews, and last week I even had a post asking for questions about the books I’ve read to spur me on a bit. Thanks for all those who responded, and hopefully I’ll be getting to a few reviews this week — I’d really like to get in at least 5 or 6.
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Have you heard about the Women Unbound Challenge? I’ll be posting my book choices for that tomorrow but would like to recommend the following fiction titles to those participating:
- So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Unless by Carol Shields
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
- Persepolis I and II by Marjane Satrapi
- Purple HIbiscus by Adichie
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo (this is a light read, but it does examine how women’s expectations are sometimes based on the literature we read)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- probably a few more but I had to stop somewhere!
And a non-fiction title:
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone else’s recommendations and reading lists for the challenge.
Happy Reading!
I’m glad you liked Amitav Ghosh. I read Hungry Tide a long time back, and I really liked it. You’ve got a really nice list for Women Unbound challenge. I’ll look at a few more lists for book ideas before I join.
I LOVED his writing, and I’m really looking forward to The Sea of Poppies.
I have read a few short stories in Fragile Things.
Sunday Salon: October Wrap Up
I really liked most of these, but some were just okay.
I don’t like the time change at all. Why must we do this? Who decides? I’m so confused from going to bed too early and waking up too early!
I wish we just stayed on the same time as well, but if we have to do it, I definitely like the Fall better than the Spring change.
I would think it would really mess up business especially with production, etc. Sigh.
Glad to see you are joining the Unbound challenge! I am crazy behind in reviews, too, so you are very much not alone there!
Glad to hear I’m not the only one!
The Hunger games was truly really good. I can’t wait for book three of the trilogy!!