October 2020 - What will you be reading?

[Alannah]

What's on your list for this month?

[LauraT]

These the first of this month; we'll see going on...

Jane Austen Persuasion
Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company Reading
Lucy M Montgomery The Blythes Are Quoted
Sacha Naspini Nives
William Shakespeare King Henry V
Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King
Katharine Weber  La lezione di musica
Woody Allen Apropos of Nothing

[Kim]

Once again, going to target books from my various Challenges, which are:-

The Ninth Grave by Stefan Ahnhem -
- FINISHED 26/10/20 - 4* (8/10)
The Gift Of Speed by Steven Carroll -
- FINISHED 27/10/20 - 4* (9/10)
Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller -
- FINISHED 4/10/20 - 4* (9/10)
The River by Peter Heller -
- FINISHED 16/10/20 - 3* (7/10)
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake -
- FINISHED 22/10/20 - 5* (9.5/10)
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult -
- FINISHED 24/10/20 - 3* (6/10)
The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana -
- FINISHED 18/10/20 - 4* (8/10)
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell -
- FINISHED 6/10/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo -
- FINISHED 14/10/20 - 4* (9/10)
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell -
- FINISHED 10/10/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas -
- FINISHED 31/10/20 - 4* (8/10)
The Remains by Vincent Zandri -
- FINISHED 28/10/20 - 4* (9/10)

Completed 12/12

[Leslie]

LauraT wrote: "These the first of this month; we'll see going on...

Jane Austen Persuasion Reading
Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company
Lucy M Montgomery ..."

Ooh! How is The Blythes Are Quoted? I must immediately add this book to my TBR unless you give it a thumbs down...

[Leslie]

I had a very poor reading month in September, so I am not making much of a plan (for me). I will be finishing up the nonfiction The Devil's Highway: A True Story in audiobook.

Additionally, I hope to read:
Jamaica Inn , our group classic
Study of a Woman, part of Balzac's Human Comedy
Beloved or The Bluest Eye or both (I have checked out a Toni Morrison omnibus from the library)
The Radetzky March maybe...

and some mysteries (as those who know me realize, these are my staple genre):
The Templars' Last Secret
Flambé in Armagnac
Nothing Can Rescue Me
Murder Must Advertise {reread}
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs

[Leslie]

Only a few days since I made my list and I have already gone "off script" and listened to the audiobooks of the final 2 books in the Hitchhiker's Guide series - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish & Mostly Harmless.

[Alannah]

Here is my list, although I have already finished American Royals, The Witching Stone and Wolf By Wolf. Currently listening to Jamaica Inn as I'm typing this.

American Royals by Katharine McGee
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Shielded by KayLynn Flanders
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
The Chalet by Catherine Cooper
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
The Whisper Man by Alex North
The Witching Stone by Danny Weston
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

[LauraT]

Leslie wrote: "Ooh! How is The Blythes Are Quoted? I must immediately add this book to my TBR unless you give it a thumbs down..."

LOVED it! Different from the others of Anne series: it can be seen she has written it later, when more sad, disillusioned, if you see what I mean.
Here my little review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nancy]

My list this month is to finish the books I'm currently reading:
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton
A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
History by author:Elsa Morante
The Art Spirit by [author:Robert Henri
and begin
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
La catedral del mar by Ildefonso Falcones

[Kim]

Just managed to complete my targeted reading for October on the last day - now ready to move into November's reading as we go into another lockdown!

[LauraT]

Finished all those I had intended but Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King, that I don't know when I'll be able of reading!