September Book Report

A visitor, September 2023

I finished 7 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 2 were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• 1 counted toward the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge 
• 1 was from my Classics Club List 
• 2 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• none counted toward the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge (I finished it)
• 1 counted toward the 2023 What's in a Name Challenge
• none were from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• none were from the mystery series I am trying to make progress on this year

 Here are the books I finished in September 2023: 

1. Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs (3-stars)
2. The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel  (audiobook, 4-stars)
3. Gluttony: The 7 Deadly Sins by Francine Prose (3-stars)
4. The Rubber Band by Rex Stout (4-stars)
5. Loonshots by Safi Bahcall (3-stars)
6. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (4-stars)
7. Readers Advisory Guide to Romance by Robin Bradford (3-stars)

I should have completed my Classics Club list at the end of this month but I didn't quite get there. I was close, but when the library zapped back my half-finished audiobook of The Violent Bear it Away and someone else had it reserved I realized I would not make my set deadline. I should be able to finish up the list during October (assuming I come back up on the library reserve list).