November 2023 Color Challenge --Rust or Gold

[Jennifer, Moderator]

The colors for the November 2023 color challenge are rust or gold. Looking forward to seeing your picks!

PS I absolutely cannot believe it's November already.

[Eileen]

and

[Dee]

- 11/13/23√

[Denise]

and

[Jennifer, Moderator]

I'm theoretically supposed to read all of these before the end of the year....

[Bonnie]

I'm reading actual book books this time. and I also have a bookclub book to read, so hope they all get finished :)

[Joy D]

I plan to read:

[Jackie]

[Bonnie]

Jackie wrote: " "

The Dickens and Christie series looks like one I need to add to my tbr shelf.

[Jennifer, Moderator]

You have to watch Jackie. She'll sneak books onto your TBR like that a lot, Bonnie.

[Jackie]

Ha! Sounds like the pot and kettle to me, Jennifer!

[Jennifer, Moderator]

I'm sure I don't know *what* you're talking about.

[Joy D]

I had to switch out my planned book - updated msg 7 above.

[Jennifer, Moderator]

Joy, as a favor to us all, can you please pick less interesting-sounding books? :-)

[Joy D]

Will try to do better in the future. :-)

[Rhonda]

I picked a shorter book this month as I'm still reading 1 for last month. It fits both colors!!

[Bonnie]

Bonnie wrote: "I'm reading actual book books this time. and I also have a bookclub book to read, so hope they all get finished :)"

Finished (skim read a lot) of the Winter of the Witch. This is the last of a trilogy I have really enjoyed but this one seemed to drag for me. It felt more like real/sad/dark Russian history more than the fantasy side I enjoyed in the first books.

[Jennifer, Moderator]

I get that, Bonnie -- Russian-style literature is something you really have to be in the mood for.

[Joy D]

Finished my rust/gold cover for November:

The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III - 4* - My Review

[Rhonda]

Finished . The first part was 2 stars, the last third was quite good and would be 4 stars, so overall I gave it 3 stars.

It is an odd book told in first person, and that person is rather crass. However, it fit the character and it's time period.

[Laurel]

Just got my book ... The Weaver and the Witch Queen which has both gold and rust. I need to finish another book before I start it though...

[Bonnie]

Bonnie wrote: "I'm reading actual book books this time. and I also have a bookclub book to read, so hope they all get finished :)"

Finished The Goblin Emperor and it was really good. Good story and characters, interesting world anyway. The names and name structures were really hard and so many of them. I basically gave up trying to figure out who was who except the main characters.

[Jennifer, Moderator]

Heh, sounds almost like Tolstoy wrote a fantasy! I had to use the same strategy when I read Anna Karenina and I’ve heard that War and Peace has even more.

[Bonnie]

Jennifer wrote: "Heh, sounds almost like Tolstoy wrote a fantasy! I had to use the same strategy when I read Anna Karenina and I’ve heard that War and Peace has even more."

long long ago when I was doing the Oprah Bookclub with some friends she use to put printable bookmarks on her site with character lists for the harder books she did.

[Jennifer, Moderator]

That's a good idea and a nice way to interact with your fellow clubbers! I never knew she did that.

[Eileen]

Just finished 5 stars So good a must read

[Jennifer, Moderator]

Glad to hear that because I recently picked it up, Eileen!