NOVEMBER 2021 WRAP-UP

Phew, November was a busy month for book bloggers, with #Nonficnov and #NovellasinNovember (and many more events I didn’t participate in), plus the readalong I co-hosted on The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
After 19 months, I also managed to finish my personal project of listening to all of Hercule Poirot novels and short stories collections – I will talk to you more about this another day.
I also got back into the groove of posting Orthodox notes at least every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

📚 Here is what I read in November:

12 books:
7 in print 
=  with 1,701 pages, a daily average of 56 pages/day
5 in audio
= 31H42, a daily average of 1H03

7 in mystery:

1. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot #40), by Agatha Christie
2. The Hallowe’en Party (Hercule Poirot #41), by Agatha Christie
3. Elephants Can Remember(Hercule Poirot #42), by Agatha Christie
4. Curtain (Hercule Poirot #44), by Agatha Christie
5. The Harlequin Tea Set (Hercule Poirot #46), by Agatha Christie – these first 5 were as audiobooks, for The Classics Club
6. Le Port  des brumes (Inspecteur Maigret #12), by Georges Simenon – read with a French student. Counts for The Classics Club
7. A Man Lay Dead, by Ngaio Marsh – Classics spin for The Classics Club

3 in literary fiction:

1. Le Créa, by Jean-Marc Soyez – a reread in French
2. The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares – a novella, read for #NovellasinNovember
3. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie – for the readalong I cohosted

2 in nonfiction:

1. Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love, by Haruki Murakami
2. The Kingdom of God, by Archbishop Dmitri Royster

MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH

 

READING CHALLENGES & RECAP

Classics Club: 94/137 (from November 2020-until November 2025)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 12 books
#20BooksofSummer21: 37/20 books
Total of books read in 2021 = 150/120 (125%)

Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 34 (17 of which are nonfiction added thanks to #nonficnov! A dangerous event for our TBRs, as you can see)

OTHER BOOKS  REVIEWED THIS PAST MONTH

 

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MOST POPULAR BOOK REVIEW THIS PAST MONTH

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MOST POPULAR POST THIS PAST MONTH
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Nonfiction November: My year 2021 in Nonfiction

BOOK BLOG THAT BROUGHT ME MOST TRAFFIC THIS PAST MONTH

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Come back tomorrow
to see the books I plan to read in December!

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How was YOUR month of November?

Nicole at Feed Your Fiction Addiction
has created a Month In Review meme
where you can link your monthly recap posts
Thanks Nicole!