This has felt like a really long month in many ways, with so much going on. In terms of reading and blogging alone, it started with what turned out to be the final Witch Week, celebrating the centenary of Joan Aiken’s birth. I found it a wonderful finale to an event I started back in 2014, and I am very grateful to the hosts for the last few years, Chris Lovegrove and Lizzie Ross. I hope you’ll go back to check out some of the posts.
I was inspired to read a couple more books by Aiken this month, too, not wanting to let the magic go. And to continue with children’s books, I finished reading Momo in German, quite an accomplishment for me; it also turned out to be perfect timing for German Literature Month. And I read the last three books in the Oz series, completing the Ozathon readalong I started last December – see here for thoughts on books 11 and 12; my final post will be up next month.
In need of more light reading, I sampled some of Katherine Center’s romances (thanks Jeanne of Necromancy Never Pays for the inspiration), but also found the energy for some thoughtful nonfiction, including my last book for the Nonfiction Reader Challenge. And I completed a writing book I’ve been working through all year. Maybe that’s why the month felt so long …
Here’s what I read in November:
- The Tin Woodman of Oz, The Magic of Oz, Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum – Rereads, Ozathon
- Momo by Michael Ende – Reread, but in German, German Literature Month
- The Whispering Mountain and Midnight Is a Place by Joan Aiken – Rereads
- Good Soil by Jeff Chu
- How Sondheim Can Change Your Life by Richard Schoch
- The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
- Happiness for Beginners, Hello Stranger, The Rom-Commers, What You Wish For by Katherine Center
- The Tears of Things by Richard Rohr
- Break the Cycle by Mariel Buque
- The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale – Nonfiction Reader, True Crime category
- One Year to a Writing Life by Susan Tiberghien
- Thursday’s Child by Noel Streatfeild – Reread
With so much reading to recap, I don’t even have the energy to go into language and life this month. I’m still here, still trying to communicate, that’s all I can say. I hope you are too.
Linked at The Sunday Post at Caffeinated Book Reviewer, the Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz, and the Monthly Wrap-up Round-up at Feed Your Fiction Addiction