All About Books discussion

Thought I would create this post a bit early.

My planned reads for November:

The Day of the Triffids
The Leavers
Malice

Nobu: A Memoir
The Bread and the Knife: A Life in 26 Bites
Generation Chef: Risking It All for a New American Dream
The Call of the Farm

GUTS: Find Your Greatness, Beat the Odds, Live From Passion
The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win

My Planned November Reads:

Fiction :
✔1,The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton 3 stars read
✔2.All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner 5 stars read
✔3.The Reef by Edith Wharton 3 stars
✔4.Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy 1 star read
✔5.The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 4 stars read
✔6.Pastoral by Nevil Shute 1 star read
✔7.Harriet Hume by Rebecca West 3 stars read
✔8.And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier 3 stars read
✔9.Wake by Anna Hope 3 stars read
✔10.More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow 2 stars
✔11.Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
*12.The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (finished in December)

Non-fiction :
✔1.Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann 3 stars read
✔2.Becoming by Michelle Obama 4 stars read
✔3.East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands 4 stars read
✔4.The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad 4 stars read

Short Stories and Drama :
✔1.Cathedral by Raymond Carver 4 stars read
✔2.The Verger by W. Somerset Maugham 4 stars reread
✔3.TAhe Shadow of a Doubt: A Play in Three Acts by Edith Wharton 4 stars read
✔4.The Luncheon by W. Somerset Maugham 3 stars read
✔5,The Ransom of Red Chief 2 stars read

Finish:
The Woman in White (audio) read - 4 stars
The Collector’s Apprentice read - 5 stars

Read:
Our Souls at Night (audio) read - 4 stars
A Tangled Mercy read - 4 stars
The Woman in Cabin 10 (audio) read - 2 stars
Gunpowder Moon read - 3 stars
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (audio)
Crazy Rich Asians (audio)
A Separate Peace (audio) read - 3 stars
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Love Warrior - read 5 stars

That's quite a lot of reading for 1 month. You haven't settled on any short stories. I've written a short story titled "DAD!" If you'd like to read it let me know.

Probably these:

Fernando Arambur Patria Reading now
Elif Batuman The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read ThemRead
Anthony Trollope The Eustace Diamonds Read
Maurizio de Giovanni Pane per i Bastardi di Pizzofalcone Read

Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance Read
Alexander Mccall Smith Espresso Tales Read
Penelope Fitzgerald La libreria Read

John Grisham A Time to Kill Read
Timothy Egan  The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America Read
Dafne Du Maurier Jamaica Inn Read
Carmen Korn Figlie di una nuova era
Maurizio de Giovanni Souvenir per i Bastardi di Pizzofalcone Read

Norton wrote: "That's quite a lot of reading for 1 month. You haven't settled on any short stories. I've written a short story titled "DAD!" If you'd like to read it let me know."

No thank you.

It's so hard for me to plan what I'm going to read! I have good intentions to read the following. (We'll see what happens.)

1. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel This is in continuation of my reading challenge of 25 translated authors, not on my 100 authors challenge. Each chapter starts with a recipe! Perfect for the holidays and for someone who doesn't cook much. I hope there is a recipe for making chocolate!
2. Children of God by Mary Doria Russell I was so devastated by The Sparrow but I'm finally ready to know the rest of the story!
3. Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales by Leo Tolstoy (For my Translated Lit challenge/genre folktales)
4. Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
5. Last but not least, continue with Don Quixote and The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

For short stories, I am listening to the LeVar Burton Reads Podcast. I love his narration and the music and sound effects!

You know why I like this thread? Because you see what people REALLY are reading. Everyone of us has monstrously long TBR lists but which books do we actually read?

I will be continuing with War and Peace and unlikely to finish it in November.

I might slot in one or more of these in between:
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima

LauraT wrote: "Probably these:

Fernando Arambur Patria

Elif Batuman The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Jonathan Raban [book:Bad Land: An Am..."

Have fun with the Penelope Fitzgerald book. I did. One of the books you will be reading I did not like, but I will not wreck it for you and say which,

I'm planning on reading:

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Dry
Euphoria

Erica, if I remember correctly I loved Euphoria! I remember thinking that she took a bit of Margaret Mead's life and created a fictional story from that. It is fiction but wonderfully drawn.

I have added a couple more, and I might also add The Metamorphosis. IF we decide to read it for the ABB classic choice in November.

I maybe have too many books listed, but what I do not read I will read next month.

I'm really interested in your reaction to War and Peace. I read it years ago, but pieces of it keep popping up. Time for a reread

Here is a list of books I hope to read during November:

New England White by Stephen L. Carter - currently reading, almost finished
Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg
Summer People: A Novel by Marge Piercy
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

I haven't participated much in these discussions since I no more plan my reading, at least not on a monthly basis. However, I find the discussions fun, so here I am again with a very rough plan:

Started in October, to be finished:

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 5
Inseguendo le ombre dei colibrì

Currently reading:

Infiltration: A Novel

To be read, possibly:

Refuge: A Novel
Boredom
The Snow Child
Quello che ho da dirvi
Luftballonspiele
The Three Musketeers

... more to come

Marina, you do not have to worry about actually fulfilling one's plans; plans ate often changed. It is also a good way of keeping track of what one ends up reading each month if you take the time to note changes! You can also easily see which book you liked best and which worst, if you fill that in as you read.

Chrissie, I do that in my personal reading space, but I am unsure whether I'll keep the same format next year. Anyway, I find this thread is a good way to see what the other members are reading :)

Mariana, I checked out your thread and see what you mean. .......but it is kind of fun talking with others too, here,

Chrissie wrote: "Mariana, I checked out your thread and see what you mean. .......but it is kind of fun talking with others too, here,"

Of course it is, that's why I posted in here in the first place :)

November reads at the moment
A Burnable Book
The Thirteenth Tale
Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith
The Assassin Game
A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344
Throne of Glass

I don't really plan my reading to far a head but here is what I'm currently reading or have on table waiting to be read.

1. Town in a Sweet Pickle
2. project 1065 by gratz, alan
3.Massacre Canyon

I added in another short story by W. Somerset Maugham --The Luncheon. It was good and will definitely make you laugh.

Diane found it and I had to read it too.

Chrissie wrote: "I added in another short story by W. Somerset Maugham --The Luncheon. It was good and will definitely make you laugh.

Diane found it and I had to read it too."

Years ago I read a lot of Maugham's short stories in a collection and this was one of my favourites.

Esther, go read The Verger. It is even better. I have a free link to it in my review. Reading stories on the web is a pain but if they are short it is doable.

Chrissie wrote: "Esther, go read The Verger. It is even better. I have a free link to it in my review. Reading stories on the web is a pain but if they are short it is doable."

That is one of his sort stories I have read multiple times - another favourite.

My mother had the Penguin 4 volume collection of his short stories and I read them from start to finish when I was about 14.
I liked them so much that I reread the whole collection in my twenties and have been reading his short stories here and there even since.
As a result I think I have read 95% of his short stories.
I remember the first one I ever read was Rain. At 14 I didn't completely understand it but I thought is was brilliant and I haven't stopped enjoying them since then.

Esther wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Esther, go read The Verger. It is even better. I have a free link to it in my review. Reading stories on the web is a pain but if they are short it is doable."

Tha..."

I read Rain in one of his collections recently. I preferred others more. It did make me laugh a bit though. For me it was TOO open-ended.