What are we reading in November?

Happy November! I hope everyone had a nice Halloween and remembered to turn their clocks back, if applicable! I'm kicking things off this month with Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. What are you reading?

>1 christina_reads: - I read that a couple of years ago. I'll be looking to see what you think. I just finished his book The Remains of the Day. I'm starting off the month trying to finish a couple I didn't in Oct. Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas and Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield.

I've been spending most of the day with Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé, by Bob Stanley. There is a LOT here, so even though it reads quickly, I still have a fair bit to go.

Currently I am reading Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid, this is part of the Tony Hill/Carol Jordon series that I have neglected for far too long. I am also reading Living by Henry Green.

The Inugami Curse, by Seishi Yokomizo (translated by Yumiko Yamakazi), is due back at the library tomorrow and I can't renew it, so I'm focusing on that today.

Now that I'm finished >5 rabbitprincess: I will pick up a cheesy thriller: Shooting Script, by Gavin Lyall. Meant to read it last month but that didn't end up happening.

I've just started The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. I really enjoyed this one when I first read it, so I'm hoping I'll like it just as much on this reread!

I finished An Amish Singing and I am now reading Murder at an Irish Christmas.

Voting's open for 2021 CATs https://www.librarything.com/topic/325375#7306315

I'm currently reading The Alice Network by Kate Quinn and am fascinated to see how everything will turn out!

I just finished When Jessie Came Across the Sea for TravelKIT and now I am reading The Blended Quilt.

Today in between chores I will make some more progress on Lord and Master, by Nigel Tranter. This is one of two historical fiction novels in my Pool, neither of which I had got to before now (of course).

Also going to get my next audio set up: The Answer Is...: Reflections on My Life, by Alex Trebek, read by Alex Trebek and Ken Jennings.

>12 rabbitprincess: I did not know Alex Trebek had written a book. I will need to check it out as I was just wondering about that.

>10 christina_reads: - I'm also in the middle of The Alice Network and enjoying it a lot. And I've started An Equal Justice by Chad Zunker for my AlphaKit "Z" and I'm still working on Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield.

I'm reading the 11th book in A Dance to the Music of Time, Temporary Kings.

>13 LadyoftheLodge: He wrote it just in time :(

Feeling a bit restless, reading-wise. Yesterday I stayed up late to finish a mystery, Murder in the Crooked House, by Soji Shimada (translated by Louise Heal Kawai). I have a lot of library books due back in about a week, but of course none of them appeal at this moment. I'm hoping that The Hog's Back Mystery, by Freeman Wills Crofts, will do the trick.

I've got three going right now -

1. Master of poisons by Andrea Hairston
(fantasy, climate change)

2. The great belivers by Rebecca Makkai
fiction, not sure how to classify this one yet

3. An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
(non fiction)

I finished The Blended Quilt and One Charmed Christmas. I have been making reading lists lately for the 2021 Category Challenges and also selecting my reading choices for December Category Challenges. Not sure what to read next.

I am all about Agatha Christie right now. I am reading Dumb Witness and also her biography, Agatha: A Biography by Janet Morgan.

I've finally started The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers for the group read. I haven't read this one before, but I'm already anticipating a lot of impenetrable bell jargon! :)

>21 christina_reads: bellringer at your service to make clear the impenetrable. Lots of info already on the Sayer's group read thread.

>22 Helenliz: Thanks! I'll have to visit the thread again now that I've started reading the book. :)

I have been doing a lot of rereading this month. It started with The Nine Tailors followed by The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a couple of P.G. Wodehouse books (for the AlphaKIT) and several Georgette Heyer romances.

I also managed to read a book for the SFFKit - The Giver by Lois Lowry - and a couple of ROOTs (Nothing Can Rescue Me by Elizabeth Daly & When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon).

I finished A Heartfelt Christmas Promise and I am currently reading Christmas Ever After which is a story about a novelist whose work is tanking and she is trying to get her mojo back by writing a romance novel set at Christmas time. It is actually quite hilarious.

I'm reading Moonflower Murders which is pretty hefty , but I'm sure I will enjoy it.

>26 lsh63: So hefty! I was taken aback when it came in at the library.

I'm still reading The Hog's Back Mystery, by Freeman Wills Crofts, but I've put it aside for a bit to read The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton.

I'm also reading The Answer Is... Reflections on My Life, by Alex Trebek, read by Alex Trebek and Ken Jennings.

>28 rabbitprincess: How did you swing that? There are 42 holds on the Alex Trebek audiobook at my library.

>27 rabbitprincess: I hope I can finish it before it has to go back to the library!

Currenly I am reading Unknown Soldiers by Vaino Linna for a group read at the 1,001 Books Group and Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson, which is excellent.

>30 lsh63: I wish you luck!

>29 VivienneR: I bought it off Libro.fm :) I'm like 100-something on the holds list at the library for the print copy (hoping for photos).

Speaking of things due back at the library that I can't renew, I'm going to have to get going on Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches, by Mairi Kidd, about awesome Scottish women.

I managed to finish Moonflower Murders, as well as The Law of Innocence. Both were very good and once I started reading them I couldn't stop.

I'm almost done with Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen of Attolia, the second book in her Queen's Thief series, and am loving it just as much on this re-read as I did the first time!

I loved Valentine, it was a five star read for me! Very impressive for a debut novel.

I gave up on Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield after reading almost half. Too much chemistry, too many people, too many dates....

After some long reads, felt like a short read, so I read The Green Gables Detectives, by Eric Wilson. Next I will probably tackle The Traveller and Other Stories, by Stuart Neville.

Edit: Or maybe The Informer, by Liam O'Flaherty, which I've been hoping to get to and not getting to all month.

I am closing out the month with A Change of Heir by Michael Innes. I absolutely loved The New Sonia Wayward, the only other book I have read by this author but I don't think A Change of Heir is going to quite reach the heights that that one did.

I finished An Amish Christmas Wedding by various authors. Just started Crime of a Different Stripe by Sally Goldenbaum. I have read the others in this series, and reading this one is like meeting up with old friends and catching up on their lives.

>39 DeltaQueen50: I have read quite a lot of Michael Innes, though not The New Sonia Wayward (mostly I have read his Sir John Appleby books). His writing style isn't for everyone but I find his dry wit amusing and love his way with language. I'd recommend The Journeying Boy if you get the chance.

>41 leslie.98: I have The Journeying Boy on my shelves waiting to be read!

>42 rabbitprincess: Fun in store for you then!

I'm reading Martha Gellhorn's Travels with Myself and Another for the December Non-fiction CAT.

>41 leslie.98: Thanks, Leslie. I've added The Journeying Boy to my list.