Book Club: What I Read in October & Novembers Reading Plans

Hello everyone and welcome to another book club post.

I have lots of books to share with you so I’ll just dig in!

For October as part of the “Spooktober” and “Victober” challenges I read:

“The Portrait of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

“Silas Marner” by George Eliot

“The Haunting of Maddy Clare” by Simone St. James

“We’ve Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson

I really enjoyed all these books and thoroughly enjoyed “Silas Marner” which was a surprise for me. I am now on a hunt for more books by George Eliot that I might like so if you have any recommendations please let me know!

I started but didn’t finish “The Other” by Thomas Tryon. I read the first few pages and just wasn’t able to form a visual or really understand what was going on. Since I had so many other books to read I just let that one go. I was unsure of that book from the beginning anyway so it wasn’t that hard to DNR it.

My books for November are a pretty large pile but I am also picking some smaller books in an attempt to make up my book count. I really want to hit my reading goal of 52 books this year.

I am taking part in 2 challenges. One I think I made up and the other one I learned about from Mark at Book Time with Elvis on YouTube. He’s co-hosting a reading challenge called Dr. No-vember and the challenge is to read a spy book that takes place during the Cold War. The book read is “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ” by John LeCarre and I also picked up “Call for the Dead” in that series. With any luck I will be able to get through both of them.

Next up is “Rizzio” by Denise Mina which is a really short book that I already finished but I’ll tell you about it during my November wrap up. This is a work of fiction that tells the story of the horrible death of David Rizzio the secretary of Mary Queen of Scots.

“The Benevolent Society of Ill Mannered Ladies” by Alison Goodman is another book I am listening to on Audible. The performer is fantastic and I am enjoying every minute of it!

On my Kindle I have “Scraps of Paper” by Kathryn Meyer Griffith that was sent to me for a review so I really want to get that read and my review up as soon as I can. I will be sharing my review here, on my channel and on Goodreads.

I am planning to finish “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley this month which is another book I’m listening to on Audible. Am I the only one getting loads of digital credits on Amazon while doing my holiday shopping? It’s a great way to get some free books on Kindle and Audible!

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe was suggested to me by my library. I love his poetry and I am looking forward to reading these short stories.

And last up is “A Treacherous Curse” by Deanna Raybourn. This is part of a series I stared in the summer and I am really enjoying. It’s another lady detective series (I swear it’s not all I read) and it has some very unique story lines and some very likeable characters.

So there you have it a rather large pile of possibility for the month of November. How are you doing with your reading goals this year? Do you have some big plans for November reading? I would love to hear!

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante