Hi and welcome to another monthly overview!
Another month gone and I have no idea where it went 😱 Work was crazy last week with my colleague off sick but fortunately, I have some time off to look forward to this month.
The kittens are still doing well, here they are playing and grooming each other, or from the look on Lola’s face, killing each other 😅:
Bookishwise, November was not the best month, I had quite a few books that I felt a bit meh about, including a few highly anticipated reads. I did manage two rereads (King and Bell) and I loved those just as much as the first time around.
Honourable mentions to SON and Black Sheep but these were my favourite reads of the month:
In figures November looks like this:
November
Novels: 5884 pages across 17 books
Audiobooks: 60 hours across 9 novels
And here’s what I did in November:
What I read:
The Fatigue Book, Lydia Rolley
I Remember You, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Last Dance in Salzburg, Vivian Conroy
Heavy Are the Stones, J.D. Barker & Christine Daigle
The Thirteenth Child, Erin A. Craig
SON, Thomas Enger & Johana Gustawsson (review to follow)
Black Sheep, Rachel Harrison
São Paulo Noir, Tony Bellotto (Editor)
Bad Dolls, Rachel Harrison
The Winter Guest, W.C. Ryan
Colombia, Mi Abuelo Y Yo, Pilar Lozano
Lady Macbeth, Ava Reid
You Are Fatally Invited, Ande Pliego (review to follow)
Starter Villain, John Scalzi
Tierra FrÃa, Sarah Moss
Lights Out, Louise Swanson
The Winter Garden, Alexandra Bell
What I listened to:
Lady in the Lake, Laura Lippman
The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren
This Wretched Valley, Jenny Kiefer
11/22/63, Stephen King
What Really Happened in Peru, Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan
The Maiden, Kate Foster
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlà Clark
Murder in the Dark, Matthew Costello & Neil Richards
The Hidden, Kiersten Modglin
Let’s have a look at the books that landed on my lap in November:
One paperback and two hardcovers with gorgeous spredges that I could not resist:
One NetGalley DRC and ten 99p deals:
I hope you had a good month and that you are safe and well! Thanks for joining me today and happy reading xxx
Ah, the murderous kittens really love each other!!!
I still don’t know how you read so much when you’ve had a bad month!! LOL! I’m still reading the same novel I started 3 weeks ago. It is 1000 pages but even so….
And I hardly ever have read anything you’ve read. BUT I have read Ghost Story by Peter Straub – a long time ago. I think I liked it. A great writer, sadly died not long ago.
They really do, can’t miss each other for 5 seconds 😂
The quantity was fine, it was the quality that was the issue! Avoiding 1000-page books does help with the numbers 😅
Well no, apparently you read 1000-page books 😂
It looks like a better month than I had! 😂 Glad the kittens are still fun, so cute! I love those spredges I can see why you couldn’t resist them! Here’s to a fab December! xx
The numbers were fine, it was my reading that was somewhat lacking 😅 Happy reading, Nicki!
Thanks for the Kitty boost💜
The kittens are adorable! It sounds like our Fickle Freida’s have decided to misbehave together as November was a month of disappointments for me as well… Fingers crossed December will treat us better! I hadn’t heard about the new Guy Morpuss yet, so that’s going straight to my wishlist. 😉 Those spredges are stunning by the way!
Thanks, they can be very adorable 😄 Our Fickle Freidas have been in overdrive, fingers crossed for December indeed. I’d tell you “so far, so good” but I’d probably jinx it 😂 I’m hoping to get to the new Morpuss soon, it’s not out until March, if memory serves, but I don’t think I can wait that long! The spredges look even better IRL 🥰