October Book Report

 

Dublin, Ireland, October 2023

I finished 9 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past.”

― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 1 was a book I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none counted toward the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge 
• 1 was from my Classics Club List 
• 1 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
• 1 was from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• 2 was from the mystery series I am trying to make progress on this year

 Here are the books I finished in October 2023: 

1. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (3-stars)
2. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid (5-stars)
3. Readers Advisory Guide to Horror by Becky Spratford (4-stars)
4. One Book in the Grave by Kate Carlisle (3-stars)
5. Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (4-stars)
6. Feels Like Home: Relaxed Interiors for a Meaningful Life by Lauren Liess (3-stars)
7. Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan (4-stars)
8. The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker (3-stars)
9. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport (4-stars)

I haven't come up again on the reserve list for the audiobook of The Violent Bear it Away which I am half-way thorugh. When I get it back I will be able to wrap up my Classics Club list. Meanwhile I have been on a bit of a mystery binge.