November Group Read: Check-in The First

[glinda]

It's the end of the first full week of the challenge!

How're we all doing? Anything to report? Are we racing ahead, falling behind or getting tangled up in our Nano committments? Or are we even reading everything but the books we initially suggested?

Report your triumphs and tribulations in the comments below!

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[fred_mouse]

According to my Goodreads list, the only books I've read in November are not ones that were in the proposed list, which suggests that they were already read at the point that I made that list, so I'm not counting them. After valiant effort, I've abandoned (and returned to the library) Hark! A Vagrant and 100 Years of Solitude. I've also had to return The Stars Askew so as not to attract library fines. I would still like to read it, but I probably won't end up reborrowing it in November.

New list, at least as far as I've thought about it:

1. The Moonlight Dreamers (Siobhan Curham) -- recently purchased
2. Jackie French's Chook Book -- TBR long term resident
3. A Skinful of Shadows (Frances Hardinge)
4. All Systems Red (Martha Wells) -- new from library, already 1/2 the way through
5. Exit Protocol (Martha Wells) -- new from library

Beyond that, there isn't anything on my 'currently reading' list (which is still 34 books!) that inspires me right at the moment. I'll see what I end up grabbing off the shelf. There are a lot of hard-work non-fiction books on that list at the moment, where I've read the chapters that were relevant at the time, but want to read the rest (two on depression, one each on organisational strategies, version control, statistical methodology, and history). Which brings me to

6. At least one non-fiction book from my currently reading list.

My complete unwillingness to specify eight books instead of six makes me wonder whether I should be revising my goal.

[glinda]

Good luck with your new list!

[fred_mouse]

Thanks! I ended up grabbing a book on dealing with depression in families, when I couldn't work out where I'd put the last book I'd been reading. I can't remember what it is called, but it does meet the criteria for #6!