All About Books discussion

Which books are you hoping to read in November? You can share your plans here.

I was just planning this...here's what I have so far:

To Continue -
War and Peace
George Orwell: A Life in Letters

November group/ buddy/ seasonal reads -
Silence
Lady Susan 4 stars
Chekhov short stories (currently reading)
Tartuffe 4 stars
We 4 stars
The World Without Us 3 stars
Othello

And....
Invisible Man 4 stars
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (currently reading)

Oh, I hope that you like Tartuffe Pink! It is one of my favorite Moliere plays - I prefer the Richard Wilbur translation so I hope that is the one you get :)

If you want to see it (either while reading or after), here is a link to a performance on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKm7_C...

I think that I might skip making a plan this time -- some stuff has come up here and my reading time in November might be limited. But I do hope to get to our group fiction book Silence.

I am still not done with:

War and Peace

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield


Apart from these I intend to read:

The Great Gatsby

In Cold Blood as part of a group read

Brideshead Revisited

A Passage to India

and Macbeth

I will be reading these:

Fiction:
I Am the Messenger 1 star
The Voyage of the Narwhal 3 stars read
The Assistant 4 stars read
Notwithstanding 1 star read

Non-ficition:
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 4 stars read
The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir 1 star read
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? 3 stars read
Rasputin: The Untold Story 4 stars read
Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman 3stars read
Dust Tracks on a Road 3 stars read
The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany 3stars read
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 4 stars

See messages 6, 19 and 23 for all books read this month.

Leslie, I'll have to look up which translation I have. I am interested in watching it performed too, so thanks for the link. I hope everything is okay and that you find time for our group read next month.

Raul, are you enjoying War and Peace? I'm half way through now and really enjoying it, but I only read it when I can sit and give it my full attention, so it's taking a while to get through.

Pink wrote: "I was just planning this...here's what I have so far:

To Continue -
War and Peace
George Orwell: A Life in Letters

November group/ buddy/ seasonal reads -
[book:Silen..."

You have some great choices there.
( I must stick to my reading plan, I must stick to my reading plan...)

Esther wrote: "You have some great choices there.
( I must stick to my reading plan, I must stick to my reading plan...)."

Thanks, yes I must stick to my plan too! Though I'm sure I'll sneak a few different books in as well :)

My November Plan:

Finish:
Horus Rising
Man's Search for Meaning

Read:
In the Woods
Disciple

I'm still waiting for my reading glasses to be repaired by the optician so my reading has slowed right down, but assuming I get them back soon, this is my absolute minimum to read in November ...

Nonfiction
The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food
Wisdom of the Mythtellers
Six Facets Of Light
and from the to be finished pile, World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down
and The Book of Disquiet

Fiction
Between the Acts
The Hummingbird's Daughter

My aim for November is to finish reading The Book of Disquiet

Also for GR group reads
Silence
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

And
Dance on the Volcano which I've been meaning to read for months
Homegoing


Now I'm going to go back and check my October list to see how many of them I actually read!

I have a copy of the von Humboldt book on my shelf. I saw the author speak and was amazed by the story. I'm interested to see how you like it.

@ Pink; yes, I have had the same problem with the book and I'm afraid at this rate I may go back to postponing the book as I have before so I have decided to read it bit by bit every week, with at least one more book as a buffer until I finish it, starting this coming week.

@ Pink; and Tolstoy's writing is incredible, I loved Anna Karenina and I am enjoying War and Peace too

Well - Plan is key word as actual reading has come to a near stand still.

Leftover from last month not started yet:
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Courageous Faith by Charles F. Stanley

Started but not finished:
Emma by Jane Austen
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Fix It: Getting Accountability Right by Roger Connors

Group Read:
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
Ongoing Real Live Book Club Read:
Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples by Francis Chan

I actually read all 5 of my 'must read' picks for October! I'm hoping I can do the same with November---here are my top priorities for this month:

To finish out my 2016 BINGO Challenge:
1. Crush: A Girls of Summer Novel
2. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

For my Paranormal Nonfiction Challenge:
3. The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama
4. Past Lives of the Rich and Famous
5. Ghosts of Richmond

Finished Hillbilly Elegy. I really liked it. It was a quick read almost a sociology lesson. I feel Ike I learned something new and gain an understanding of a group of people I new little of.

A great memoir with a purpose.

I'll be reading these too:

Gioconda next month
The Gustav Sonata 2 stars read

See message 6 and 19 and 23 for all books read this month.

I'm so overwhelmed by the things to do both at work and at home that, as we say in Itally "navigo a vista"!!! meaning I sail only looking for where to stir!!! No plan, no lists!

There is nothing like a book by David McCullough.

They never disappoint.

Finished Emma tonight. One that I was pushing through for the last three months. Just not my kind of read. Glad I stuck with it and I am sure the Library will appreciate its return after three renewals.

I am sticking in another one two:

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir 5 stars read
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided 3 stars
Both are non-fiction.

See messages 6, 19 and 23 for books read this month.

finished Crenshaw over Thanksgiving with my 10 yr old Daughter. She gave it Five stars I gave it 3. I love The One and Only Ivan. This one was not as great. But it is good.

I finished more than I thought I would due to being on the road and in hotels many more nights than I thought I would. So many I had started earlier, I finished. Beside my active live book club read and Hidden Figures. The latter I decided to finish in December. There were Three I thought were great. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, News of the World, and Silence each I gave 4*s.

Hopefully, November will see a return to reading for me.

Faithful by Alice Hoffman
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

I have just purchased both novels.