November Group Read: Kick Off Post

[glinda]

It’s November the 1st! Ready, steady - read!



In exciting news we’ve got lots of new participants this year - thank you to everyone to promoted it to their reading lists! - so just a couple of brief housekeeping notes. Check-ins will be every Friday, with a final sneaky wee extra check-in/round up post on the 30th to share the joy/commiserate! Don’t worry if you forget to check in, there’s no penalty, commenting late or checking in for two weeks at the same time is perfectly fine! Also some people find making a list at the start and sharing it helps with accountability, so if that’s something you’re into then feel free to use the comments on this post for that.

And most importantly: have fun!

Comments

[monksandbones]

My book pile is as follows.

Currently reading, and I want to finish this month:

1) Alastair Campbell, The Alastair Campbell Diaries, volume three: Power & Responsibility, 1999–2001
2) Jeremy D. Popkin, A New World Begins: A History of the French Revolution

Embarrassing COVID book pile/mount TBR, and I'm hoping to read three of these this month:

1) Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease & The End of an Empire
2) Catherine Hanley, Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
3) Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
4) Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow
5) Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
6) Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
7) Daisy Dunn, The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
8) Sylvie Bépoix and Hervé Richard, eds., La forêt au Moyen Âge
9) Alastair Campbell, From Blair to Brown, Diaries: Volume 6, 2005-2007
10 Alastair Campbell, From Crash to Defeat, Diaries: Volume 7, 2007-2010

[peaceful_sands]

Good luck - hope you enjoy your reading and are able to finish your goal.

[glinda]

Embarrassing COVID book pile/ Ha, don’t we all have one of those? I made a physical pile of my books for this challenge, and it may not have been a good choice as they’re hardbacks and...it looks a bit intimidating! (The Fate of Rome sound like either the best or the worst book to be reading in these times!)

[goodbyebird]

That's a really interesting pile of books!