OCTOBER 2019 WRAP-UP

📚 Another great month of reading, with a lot of nonfiction. Of course, November is nonfiction month, not October. Oh well…

So here is what I read in October:

14 books:
11 in print 
=  with 2,204 pages, an average of 71 pages/day
3 in audio
= 20H34, an average of 39 minutes

7 in nonfiction:

1. Oh, the Meetings You’ll Go To!: A Parody, by Dr Suits – graphic “novel”
2. Elder Leonid of Optina, by Fr Clement Sederholm – Eastern Orthodoxy
3. Secret Agent Brainteasers: More Than 100 Codebreaking Puzzles Inspired by Britain’s Espionage Masterminds, by Sinclair McKay – ebook, for review
4. Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance
   by Elena Perekrestov – Eastern Orthodoxy
5. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson – audio, for The Classics Club
6. The Parables: Biblical, Patristic, and Liturgical Interpretation, by Dmitri Royster – Eastern Orthodoxy
7. A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind, by Shoukei Matsumoto

2 in mystery:

1. Solving Cadence Moore, by Gregory Sterner, for review
2. Avalanche hôtel, by Niko Tackian- French audiobook

2 in manga:

1. My Neighbor Totoro, vol. 3 by Hayao Miyazaki
2. My Neighbor Totoro, vol. 4 by Hayao Miyazaki

1 in literary fiction:

1. Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald – audio, for The Classics Club

1 in science-fiction:

1. Supernova Era, by Liu Cixin – for review

1 in historical fiction:

1. On the Edge of the World, by Nikolai Leskov – ebook, for The Classics Club

MY FAVORITES IN OCTOBER

   

READING CHALLENGES & RECAP

Classics Club: 4/50 (until September 2024)
2019 Calendar of Crime Challenge 15/12?
Where Are You Reading?: 21/50 – to be finished in ??
Total of books read in 2019 = 98/100
Number of books added to my TBR this past month= 20

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to see the books I plan to read in November.

How was YOUR month of October?

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