November Book Report

November 2021

I finished 16 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

"There is no point spending an entire life trying to win the love you didn't feel when you needed it. You sometimes just have to let go of an old story and start your own. Give yourself some love. You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter." --The Comfort Book by Matt Haig (p. 57)

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 10 were non-fiction and none were poetry (toward my goal of 10 non-fiction books and some poetry this year) 
• 3 were books I own but hadn't read before (#unreadshelfproject2021) 
• 1 counts toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• none counted toward the Canadian Book Challenge 
• 2 were from my Classics Club List and 1 of those counted toward the Back to the Classics Challenge 

Here are the books I finished in November 2021:

1. A Little Local Murder by Robert Barnard (4-stars)
2. The Power of Writing it Down by Allison Fallon (2-stars)
3. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir  (3-stars)
4. Midnight Chicken and Other Recipes Worth Living For by Ella Risbridger (4-stars)
5. The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald (3-stars)
6. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (3-stars)
7. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (4-stars)
8. Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon (audiobook, 3-stars)
9. How to Write a Mystery edited by Lee Child (4-stars)
10. Thinking About History by Sarah Maza (3-stars)
11. The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (4-stars)
12. In the Best Families by Rex Stout (4-stars)
13. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig (4-stars)
14. A Scandal in Belgravia by Robert Bernard (5-stars)
15. The Self-Care Handbook by Gill Hasson (3-stars)
16. Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David by Artemis Cooper (4-stars)

I participated in Nonfiction November which was fun. I read lots of blog posts about what nonfiction other folks are reading and offered my own recommendations. I also added a ton of books to my TBR!

I have started thinking about reading plans for 2022 and am considering, among other things, a mini-reading-intensive which is a cool idea I learned about from Following the Thread.