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[PattyMacDotComma]

Stephen King is known for his horror thrillers, but this is just a good story about a ghost, stranded in the Horror House of the amusement park, Joyland. It's just what I felt like reading!
4.5★ Link to my Joyland review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Tim Winton is one of Australia's best and most-awarded authors and an all-time favourite of mine. An Open Swimmer was his first novel, written when he was still at uni, and his writing was already magic. I had some trouble with the story.
3.5★ Link to my Open Swimmer review

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm just ticking the books off with this toppler. I will start Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other today.

[Katrisa]

I am finishing The Body Reader right now, which I chose because I enjoyed the group read we did (Find Me) by the same author well enough to look for some more of her books and I liked this one even better.
I am still REALLY looking forward to Under the Whispering Door but my book schedule has made me put it off until next week

[Kristie, Moderator]

I’ll have to move The Body Reader up my list, Katrisa. I already own it and completely forgot about it. I’ve already read Tell Me (book 2 of the Inland Empire series after Find Me) and really enjoyed it.

[Janice, Moderator]

I've finished Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other for the toppler and the museum challenge.

[Peggy]

I started The Martian, which is waaaay out of my reading comfort zone. But, I need a SF for my museum challenge and this is one I own. It also has super positive reviews even from people who don't like SF, so I might be surprised.

I'm 5% in now, and actually enjoying it!

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished my last two toppler books, so I will start brand new today.

On Audiobook, The Curse of Jacob Tracy. It's the oldest book on my audiobook tbr.

On Kindle, Dirty Little Secrets. This will finish one of the museums. Woot!

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich is a warm, poignant heartstring-tugger about small town America in the 1950s. Readers will eat it up, I bet.
4★ Link to my Winston Browne review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I recently reviewed the Andy Warhol book from this series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, and he always makes me think of Marilyn Monroe, whose rise from lonely little girl to fabulous movie star is captured here (sadly no Warhol pictures).
5★ Link to my review of Marilyn Monroe with several illustrations.

[Sarah]

I feel like I'm reading every book I own. I don't seem to be able to settle on one. Oh well!

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Dirty Little Secrets for the museum challenge. It was an okay read, but I don't think I'll continue the series. I have too many other series on the go that are better written.

I will start the oldest book on my TBR, The Forgotten Ones. I'm kind of dreading this one. At some point, I was picking up a bunch of Kindle freebies, and they have all risen to the top of the TBR list. Dirty Little Secrets was also a freebie. I guess I don't "have" to read it, but I'll give it a go and see what happens.

[Janice, Moderator]

Best laid plans and all that! I've decided to pass on The Forbidden Ones and read The Kingdom of Back instead. If I'm going to finish badge 3, I need to focus on the remaining books. Besides, The Forbidden Ones has a 3.5 rating and doesn't have a finite ending according to reviews. You need to read the entire trilogy.

I finished The Curse of Jacob Tracy on audiobook. I don't know what that was other than lousy. I'm ready to start our buddy read of An Echo of Things to Come but I'll start something else if no one else is ready to start.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'll be interested to see what you think of The Kingdom of Back, Janice. I have it on my TBR.

I have made no progress on my yearly challenge this year! The year just seems to be getting away from me. I've only completed ONE museum! Not even one badge. I still have time though, so I'm hoping to get through at least the first badge. I need to refocus on that.

I am currently reading One of Us Is Lying for no other reason than it came available at the library and I wanted to check out one of her books. (Way to focus...lol)

[Sandra, Moderator]

I also have to focus on my yearly challenge if I want to get a badge. My reading slump lasted forever and I messed up my plans.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Oh, I hate when reading slumps last forever. Good luck, Sandra.

[Janice, Moderator]

I really want to finish the 3rd badge, but I only have 3 museums out 8 done.

I started Kingdom of Back last night and almost immediately fell asleep. LOL! I think I have 2% read.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Hah, me too with my second badge. "I know we have two more to read for the first badge, but we can read 16 books for the second one! I know we've only read 30 books in 10 months, but we can read 18 in two!!"

Yearly challenge Rus is adorable but unrealistic.

[Kristie, Moderator]

lol, Rus! Yearly challenge Kristie is the same. I have badge two all planned and started, but still have 5 books to read for badge one! I should be able to do that and the 17 books I still need for badge two in two months, right?

[Janice, Moderator]

LOL! You're both adorable.

[Sandra, Moderator]

We, yearly-challenge-YLTOers, are just overly optimistic. And adorable, sure. :)

[Janice, Moderator]

Should we change the group name to AO? Adorable Optimistics?

[Sandra, Moderator]

Lol, Janice. And we are humble. Very humble.

[Kristie, Moderator]

That's our next toppler team name - Adorable Humble Optimists. lol

[Sandra, Moderator]

Lol!

[Janice, Moderator]

Hannah wrote: "That's a wonderful name Janice ;-)

I had a look at the museum challenge and it is amazing!"

Be watching for the 2022 challenge. It will be posted at the end of November.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Lol!!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Finally! I have met Sebastian St. Cyr! His first adventure, in What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris, is an atmospheric murder mystery in 19th century England.
4.5★ Link to my review of What Angels Fear

[PattyMacDotComma]

What a fantastic cover and what an odd book. The 1800s were full of fortune-hunters, in all senses of the word, all over the world. Fortune by Aussie author Lenny Bartulin is wild historical fiction.
4.5★ Link to my review of Fortune

[Sandra, Moderator]

I'm reading Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park. It was my book club pick for this month. I didn't get done before our meeting, but I'm enjoying it and plan to finish it. I think it is not a book to read cover to cover, so I will read a chapter or so every week.

I also started I Know an Old Lady. This one was one of the five books I picked for Jayme's month challenge. It got my attention so I requested my library to buy it, and they were faster than usual. So far I am liking it a lot. (Jayme take note, it is a good one).

I'm also reading The Sword in the Stone to help my 9th grader get through it. She is reading it for English class and kind of struggling to stay focused on it. We are supposed to be in chapter 13, so I have to catch up with it before Thursday!

[Sharon]

I am reading The Girl in the Mirror so my friend and I can talk about it.

I am also reading April Fools as part of the yearly challenge.

I am in the beautiful North Georgia mountains this week tucked into a cabin with my hubby and little sister from college. So I might start Girdles & Ghouls: A Paranormal Women’s Fiction Halloween Collection at least a story here and there. It is supposed to rain all day and get very cold Thursday so I intend to curl up by the fireplace with hot drinks, chili, a comfy blanket and books for a day of reading with a time out for a game it two.

[Jan Mc]

I'm reading Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles and loving it. The audiobook is narrated by Grover Gardner, who also read "News of the World." Great historical fiction.

[Lilisa]

I’m listening to People We Meet on Vacation - it’s cute :-) and The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World.

[Margo]

Janice wrote: "Hannah wrote: "That's a wonderful name Janice ;-)

I had a look at the museum challenge and it is amazing!"

Be watching for the 2022 challenge. It will be posted at the end of November."

Ooh, I can't wait, I need some serious goforing in my life! When can we start bugging you for hints 🤓

[Janice, Moderator]

Ooh, I can't wait, I need some serious goforing in my life! When can we start bugging you for hints 🤓

I already gave one - not sure which thread it was in. I just said to make sure your passports are in order.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "I already gave one - not sure which thread it was in. I just said to make sure your passports ..."

Both my passports are good. So I'm ready. :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Practice reading English with a good story! Canadian author Louise Penny wrote The Hangman for a Canadian literacy project. This short novella is #6.5 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, written in simpler language but still with our favourite characters in Three Pines. It's an excellent choice for adults learning to read and/or learning English. Great project!
5★ Link to my Hangman review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I enjoy journals and diaries and historical mysteries, so I was hopeful about The Secrets of Elloughton Park by Stephen Taylor. I liked it!
4★ Link to my Elloughton Park review

[Margo]

Janice wrote: "Ooh, I can't wait, I need some serious goforing in my life! When can we start bugging you for hints 🤓

I already gave one - not sure which thread it was in. I just said to make sure your passports ..."

Ohho, some kind of travel challenge. I will be wishing november away !

[Margo]

I've just finished Wylding Hall which I downloaded from audible plus UK. I really enjoyed it. Told in the style of Daisy Jones & The Six this is a spooky tale with a very open ending. As this is about a band it would be perfectfor anyone looking for a book about music.

[Katrisa]

This week I listened to The Mask of Mirrors and it was one of my favorite fantasies as of late! I was more drawn into this one than I have been in a while. I am looking forward to the next one coming out!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm listening to Finlay Donovan Is Killing It and finding it quite entertaining.

[Lilisa]

I’m reading The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World and listening to Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road - enjoying both and dreaming of future travels.

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished The Kingdom of Back last night. It was interesting Mozart's sister's POV.

I will start The Price of Paradise this evening.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy is one to read on a hot day. Bl**dy freezing weather! Still, intrepid (sometimes terrified) detectives keep braving the icy roads to hunt down killers.
3.5★ Link to my review of Snow Blind

[PattyMacDotComma]

BOO! If anyone is looking for a good spooky story to share for the Halloween season, I recommend Click-Clack the Rattlebag by master storyteller Neil Gaiman. It's free to download, and there's also a YouTube video of him reading it. Details in my review.
5★ Link to my Click Clack review

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished An Echo of Things to Come. It was a slog through a convoluted fantasy world with a host of characters with complex names. Even the spellings of those names were irregular. It was really hard to keep track of them, especially when some of them had multiple identities. There was such a mash up of past, present, and future that my head spun. A person from some unidentified time in the future killed 2000 years in the past, but very much alive in the present gives you a wee taste of it. And yet, I will read the final book. I know, glutton for punishment.

Hopefully, Mary Jane will be a refreshing cleanser to my reading. I will start it today.

[Margo]

I'm still finding it really hard to concentrate. I'm playing (as opposed to listening to) Project Hail Mary and Dark Tides. Bothof them are good and I kn9w that normally I'd enjoy them but right now I'm just...mmah.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm listening to Gilded and trying to wrap up Candy Coated Murder.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I'm listening to Gilded and trying to wrap up Candy Coated Murder."

I should read something light like Candy Coated Murder, except there's a lot of halloween candy tempting me. I only had one little kitty cat show up the other night.