What is on your reading list this month?
Have you given yourself permission to take it easy, as the year comes to a close?
Or, as we race the clock to 2016, are you trying to stuff as many books into your brain as possible?
I am doing the latter.
Very much the latter.
Since 1 November, I’ve finished:
- Holding on Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell
- Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
- Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music by Neil Powell
- All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
- Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell
- Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star by Stephen Michael Shearer
- Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World’s Best Books by Robert Kanigel
- A Woman of Temperament by Lucile Duff Gordon (in progress)
To Be Read by 30 November:
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (the only novel on the list!)
- Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
- Madcap May: Mistress of Myth, Men & Hope by Richard Kurin
- White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
- The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
- Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker by Patrick McGilligan
And, if I finish all of these…I have Michel de Montaigne’s essays waiting in the wings.
What is your favourite book this month?
Which book on your list are you most looking forward to reading?
Please share with me in the comments!
Happy reading.
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November is feet up time as far as reading is concerned… re-reading old friends.
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Ah, that is what I did in October!
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In October, I edited instead 🙂
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That really cannot be avoided sometimes!
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Always satisfying..
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🙂
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I haven’t read as much as I could have this year. But I have high hopes for next year. Right now, I’m reading Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne.
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I always have high hopes for “next” year. That book sounds very practical and interesting.
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I had been reading like crazy this year, up until the last couple of weeks when nothing seemed to be able to hold my interest, and most of the characters were just annoying to me. Sigh. I think it’s time to go back to a classic, probably Jane Austen, to get back into gear.
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That happens to all of us. When it happens to me, I always fall back on a tried-and-true fave, too. It works wonders!
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Great topic! This month I’ve read: On Writing by Stephen King; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler; and 1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal by Christopher Moore.
I’m curious about the book on Oscar Micheaux from your list. I’m going to scout around for it.
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Thanks!
That Stephen King book is a classic, isn’t it?
I checked out the Oscar Micheaux book from our library as an e-book. I cannot wait to read it.
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Our library doesn’t have it, so I placed Body and Soul on hold instead. It’s time I saw that anyway, for pete sake.
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That’s too bad! Enjoy the movie, though!
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