What are we reading in November?

Hi all, and happy November! What are you reading this month? I'm starting out with a reread of Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce, since I just got the sequel, Yours Cheerfully, in from the library!

I have The Kingdoms in hard back and Taming of the Shrew for my ears.

I am reading Cat Me If You Can and Maiden Voyages.

I am reading Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, it's a long one being almost 800 pages, but it's very good. I am also reading Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner, which I am enjoying, but it was a bit of a mistake to read two books set in Hollywood at the same time - I have to keep making sure that I keep the story lines separate.

This morning I started The Terrorists, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, translated by Joan Tate.

I'm still trudging through Rebecca from October- though I am enjoying it in a 'wow the heroine is kind of a wet blanket' sort of way

I'm starting the month with Eleven Pipers Piping by C.C. Benison and One Woman Farm by Jenna Woginrich. And I've decided to listen to The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich for my car read. One other that has been dragging on (not because it's not good, just an ebook that I forget to pickup) is Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin.

Finished Daybreak by Shelley Shepard Gray. Just started Christmas at the Amish Bakeshop which is a series of stories.

Currently I am reading a police procedural with Dark Flight by Lin Anderson and As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner.

I've now moved on to Yours Cheerfully and am enjoying it very much!

Visiting 1850s Edinburgh with Raven, Fisher and Simpson in A Corruption of Blood, by Ambrose Parry.

Finished Yours Cheerfully on my lunch break, haha. Next up will be Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore.

I've just started The Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury for a nonfiction book but haven't yet decided on my next fiction.

I've finished wading through The Kingdoms. There's a reason I don't read a lot of timetravel - this sums it up.

But - It does mean I've finished my Bingo card for the year, all female authors.

In addition to the books I mentioned in post #7, I've also started Auntie Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu and The Distant Hours by Kate Morton because we've had to take an unexpected trip to NY and all the others were so close to being finished that I thought it would be better to take just one big book. Hopefully when we get back, I can finish off a few quickly.

I'm enjoying The Sentence and still struggling to get through Burnt Sugar.

I am nearly finished with Christmas at the Amish Bakeshop which is a series of short stories with a common theme. Although a bit early for the season, I am enjoying the stories.

I wrapped up Firestarter (by Stephen King) last weekend and am now reading Fight Club (by Chuck Palahniuk).
In audio, I'm still listening to the Sherlock Holmes Collection (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Forewords written by Stephen Fry; narrated by Stephen Fry. I'm currently on the penultimate volume, The Valley of Fear) :-)

Just finished Ghost Story by Jim Butcher and still reading The Chocolate Wars.

Currently I am reading Kingdom of Strangers by Zoe Ferraris which is set in Saudi Arabia, I am about to start Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie and I am listening to My Life As A White Trash Zombie which I am finding both light and amusing.

I am reading The Little Christmas House for NetGalley. It is a fun and easy read so far, although the life values of the characters do not match up with mine.

Did some audio knitting today with Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch. I've had this audiobook on the go for a while but was in an audio slump for a bit. Fortunately I've been inspired to do some Christmas knitting lately :)

I've just started Unquiet Land by Sharon Shinn, the fourth and (I believe) final book in her Elemental Blessings series.

I am trying to catch up with my NetGalley commitments. I am currently reading A Christmas Courtship by Shelley Shepard Gray.

I am reading The Blue Lagoon by H. de Vere Stacpoole, a shipwrecked on a deserted isle book that I somehow missed previously. I am also reading a mystery from the 1950s with The Party At No. 5.

I started a popcorn sort of thriller today: Falling, by T. J. Newman.

I finished listening to the Sherlock Holmes collection (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Introductions by Stephen Fry; narrated by Stephen Fry) and earned the Mount Everest badge on Audible for listening to a 50+ hour audiobook! The collection was a true pleasure to listen to and one I’m sure I’ll return to in whole or more likely, in parts. I also listened to the 8-minute audio short, The Lost Sherlock Holmes Story? (narrated by Simon Vance). This really was more ad copy than anything else— a promotional piece about a bridge being opened in 1904. You could skip this last thing and not be any worse off.

I also finished HHhH (by Laurent Binet). The heart of the story is the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, “The Blond Beast” who served as the Nazi Protector of Czechoslovakia during WWII. The framing device, and presumably the part of the book that relegates this book as historical fiction, is the writer who is obsessed with the story and how to tell it. A couple of years ago, I might not have had patience for this novel, but for whatever reason, I flew through the 300+ pages and am now looking for more material about this time and place. I’m thinking of re-reading, The Glass Room (by Simon Mawer) to start…

We're away over Thanksgiving, so I left The Distant Hours by Kate Morton home because of its size and took Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas for the plane ride here. She's always dependable for me for just a good read. I was also listening to The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa for my book club and will probably finish that while we're here. And I've started Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy and The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler too.

I read The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall, a fun women's fiction novel, over the weekend. Now I've begun Design for Dying by Renee Patrick, which is a mystery set in 1930s Hollywood and featuring Edith Head as a character.

I am reading The Orphan's Tale for our book group. I started it during the night when I could not sleep and ended up reading 70 pages in one go. I am also finishing The Wish Book Christmas for NetGalley.

I'm reading Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty. It has started off well and I really, really want to know what has happened.

Currently reading The Orphan's Tale for my book group and Murder Most Fowl for NetGalley. Enjoying both of them.

Over the holiday weekend I read Terra Incognita: Three Novellas by Connie Willis, Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh, and The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie. Loved all three (though the last two were re-reads, so I already knew I'd like them)! Now I'm re-reading Landline by Rainbow Rowell, but I doubt I'll finish it by the end of the day.

I have also started listening to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (written and narrated by Robert Dugoni). It's about a boy with ocular albinism (red eyes) growing up in a Roman Catholic household in the early 1960s. My sister thought this was hilarious and recommended it, but I'm not finding it as funny. Also, I may switch to the print as the author isn't really very good as a narrator :-/