November was a very good reading month:
12 books, with 2825 pages, that is, 91.1 pages/day.
Among those, 3 were audiobooks: 20:06 hours as a whole, that is, an average of 41 mn/day.
I read:
3 fiction:
- The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan
- Le côté de Guermantes, by Marcel Proust – ebook –upcoming review
- Botchan, by Natsume Soseki –upcoming review
4 historical fiction:
- The Harlot’s Tale, by Sam Thomas –ebook, review scheduled for Jan 6
- The Conversation, by Jean d’Ormesson
- The Pagan Lord, by Bernard Cornwell – ebook –upcoming review
- Mistress of the Revolution, by Catherine Delors –upcoming review
2 non-fiction:
- The Library At Night, by Alberto Manguel
- Badluck Way, by Bryce Andrews –ebook – review coming very soon, the book is released on Dec 3!
3 mysteries:
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle, by Dorothy Gilman – audiobook
- Mrs. Pollifax and The Second Thief, by Dorothy Gilman – audiobook
- Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station, by Dorothy Gilman – audiobook – all these will be combined in 1 review
My favorites this month:
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Reading Challenges recap
Around the World in 12 books: 12/12 – COMPLETED
Audiobook: 16/12 – COMPLETED
Books on France: 33/12 – COMPLETED
Cozy Mysteries: 10/10 – COMPLETED
Ebook challenge: 26/10 – COMPLETED
European reading challenge: 13/5 – COMPLETED
Historical fiction: 33/15 – COMPLETED
Japanese literature: 2/2 – COMPLETED
New authors challenge: 62/25 – COMPLETED
TBR challenge: 12/12 – COMPLETED
What’s in a Name: 6/6 – COMPLETED
Where Are You Reading?: 10/50
Australian Literature: 1/1 – COMPLETED
Total of books read so far in 2013 = 94
Number of books added to my TBR in October = 39
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Blog recap
- 4 of the 12 books mentioned here were received for review by the publisher/author
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33 readers signed up for my Books on France Challenge, and 116 reviews have already been posted. Don’t forget to post your reviews, and now is the time to post your recap, with a giveaway coming! 3 readers have already posted their recap.
- Talking about Reading Challenges, I have completed all the ones I intended to, so only one left that I plan to go on with next year: reading the States: as I had to finish the 52 countries, I knew I would not go too far on that one, so 10/50 so far makes me happy enough.
- To my now regular memes Mailbox Monday, Teaser Tuesday, First Chapter First Paragraph (on France Book Tours), WWW Wednesday, I Love France, and Friday Finds, I have added in November Book Beginnings, that I combine with Friday Finds, and two on France Book Tours: Wordless Wednesday and Friday 56.
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I launched Swap Saturday. Even though lots of bloggers came to visit, very few have been posted books they are ready to swap, so I will now do it only on the 1st Saturday of each month.
- And did you notice? I have slightly changed the formatting of my reviews: do you like it, or did you prefer the former way?
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Every month, France Book Tours has a giveaway for the book(s) of the month. Have you checked yet the December giveaway? There are 2 books to win!
- France Book Tours already completed 21 book tours, and there are 7 already scheduled, with 2 authors coming already for the 2nd time on FBT ! If you are interested in reviewing books on your blog for France Book Tours, just fill in this short questionnaire. You can find all kinds of genre: historical fiction, romance, mystery, LGBT, nonfiction, etc. And France Book Tours has now over 1,000 followers. Thanks to all of you!
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Plans for December
- Dec 1-7: Dreamy December Days Read-a-thon
- I plan to read a few books already scheduled for January, and then finish the month with fun relaxing books, with no challenge in mind – probably a few mysteries by Agatha Christie.
- I plan to post early all my reading challenges recap, as they are done – but lots of reviews to go!
- I will also post very soon my own challenge for you in 2014!
- And I will announce the reading challenges I plan to tackle in 2014
Words And Peace 
How wonderful you just read Le côté de Guermantes, by Marcel Proust, and eBook too. I just finished reading Within A Budding Grove and written a review on my blog. I’m thinking, if I go on with the third volume, I’d like to try eReading. Did you read it in French? Do you know of any English e version that I can download?
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As I’m French, that would be scandalous to read it in English, lol.
to find it as english eversion? when you go to goodreads, for Guermantes Way, there’s a link to read it for free under the cover. there you can see the url is from project gutenberg australia.
so I went there and found the link for you:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300411.txt
and you have all the books here in .txt or .zip:
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#proust
what I do for ereader is copy the text in word, then save as .pdf and then I can read it on my ereader.
Ah, just found it as epub or kindle here:
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96g/
Enjoy, though so far I think the 1st 2 are the best.
Guermantes is famously the most boring, sorry to tell you that.
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Thanks for the info! As I’m a new visitor to your blog, don’t mind me for not knowing you’re French. What an advantage! I’d love to read Proust in French but that won’t be… just like it will be best to read Japanese lit in Japanese, or Chinese in Chinese. Now that’s something I do read. 😉
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no problem at all. I do wish I could read Murakami in the original!!
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Wow, gotta love a girl with a plan!
Re: Mailbox Monday
Could you please look at my post and comment?
off to check out Dreamy December Days RaT
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just did, thanks. nice surprise to see myself in the schedule
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Wow, 12 books. Sounds like paradise.
Daniel
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well I’ll be able to discover many more books per instant moment in paradise, lol! by the way, the link to your blog when you comment needs to be updated. had to go through google to find it
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Thank you for letting me know. I will haveta search to see how to fix it.
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I think you go here:
http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/users.php?page=grofiles-user-settings
and scroll down in the last section of that page, under Account details, you can change email address and website url
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Thanks again. I may have fixed it. I’m testing it here now.
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yes, it’s working very well now
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It works. Thanks again. No one else had mentioned this problem before.
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maybe because they don’t bother to visit you. I always try to go, visit, and comment when someone leaves a comment, by courtesy
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Strange thing is– they have been. I guess they have been looking at the Gravitar link, which also refers back to my blog. But I am grateful that you told me about this (and the fix).
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you are welcome
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