November Book Read - Fourth and Final Check-In

[glinda]

November has made an exit from our life, so its time to look back and report back on what we read this month. Did you get through everything you wanted this month? Or did you read something entirely different? Discover anything new or odd about your reading habits?

Did you saunter over your self-set target deadline or were you (are you depending on your timezone) reading furiously right up to the final minute of the final day, just to finish one more book?

Comments

[alexseanchai]

ahahaha. I read zilch that wasn't for class or otherwise school-related. ZILCH. :( And, I mean, I could read a thing in the next four and three-quarters hours? But I still have homework to do that was due last night. And then I have all this coming week's work plus finals to worry about.

I also bombed NaNo. So.

Also, ♥ your icon

[peaceful_sands]

That's a shame, but hopefully all the work will be worth it.

[alexseanchai]

Hopefully!

[bookblather]

I realized I never actually set a goal. Oops. But I have read a surprising amount of books this month, including three off my TBR list and two off my TBR pile. So go me?

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds great to me! Well done!

[shanaqui]

Daaaamn, I just listed all mine and then DW ate the list. TRYING AGAIN, with links to reviews...

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost.
-Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters.
-Karen Maitland, The Vanishing Witch.
-Kelly Sue DeConnick & Emma Rios, Pretty Deadly.
-Charles Soule & Javier Pullido, She-Hulk: Law and Disorder.
-Shirley Jackson, The Sundial.
-Jeff Parker & Carlo Pagulayan, Red She-Hulk: Hell Hath No Fury.
-Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl.
-Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell, The Sleeper and the Spindle.
-G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona, Ms Marvel: No Normal.
-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Song for Arbonne.
-Patricia McKillip, Wonders of the Invisible World.
-Adam Alter, Drunk Tank Pink.
-Amy Rae Durreson, The Court of Lightning.
-John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?
-Matt Fraction & Olivier Coipel, The Mighty Thor: The Galactus Seed.
-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale.
-Ruth Padel, Darwin: A Life in Poems.
-John James, Votan.
-Carol Ann Duffy (ed.), Hand in Hand.
-Matt Fraction & Salvador Laracca, The Invincible Iron Man: Demon.
-Jo Walton, Tooth & Claw.
-Lavie Tidhar, Osama.
-Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive.
-Chris Hadfield, You Are Here.
-Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown.
-Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie, The Wicked + The Divine.
-Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence.
-Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma.
-Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor.

Plus Lucy Worsley's If Walls Could Talk, which I still need to review.

I think my goal was 20 books, and I think that's about 30. Yay!

[peaceful_sands]

Amazing job!

[peaceful_sands]

Hope everyone found something (or even better everything) enjoyable to read this month.

I read 13 books in all.

1. The Shakespeare Secret by Jennifer Lee Carrell
2. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
3. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
4. Worst Case by James Patterson
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
6. The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
7. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
8. Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy
9. Hawkeye : LA Woman by Matt Fraction
10. Hacker by Malorie Blackman
11. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
12. The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
13. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling


The first part of my goal was to read 8 books - done :D The second to read 4 specified books - 2, 5, 6, and 8 - done. The third part was to read any 2 from a second list - I got well into Midnight over Sanctaphrax by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell and Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith, but didn't finish either (over halfway through the first and almost at the halfway point for the second). The final part was any 2 other books - well there were 9 others so that's done too.

Not bad overall, I think.