Top Ten 2019 Thanksgiving Titles

TTT for November 26, 2019
#TopTenTuesday

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For this edition of #TopTenTuesday, we can choose our theme.
So I’ve decided to have fun with the letters of the word THANKSGIVING, just like last year.
These are books I have recently read and enjoyed.
Ok, Thanksgiving has 12 letters, so you will have 2 extra books!

Click on the covers to know more about these books.

Debbie Tung Anthony Horowitz Annie Ernaux

Olivier Norek Shing Yin Kohr Robert Louis Stevenson

Tender is the NiGht Hayao MIyasaki Elena PerekrestoV

ChIldhood’s End SuperNova Era Into The NiGht

And Happy Thanksgiving!

Have you read any of these? Which one is your favorite?

AUGUST 2019 WRAP-UP

Another super busy reading/book month!
There was the awesome Bout of Books week, which was my 14th participation, and probably my best ever, as far as reading is concerned, with an average of 137 pages/day over a week.

I also FINALLY took time to go through all my reviews and check which ones I had forgotten to list on my Authors’ page recap. I haven’t entered the corrections yet, so be prepared to see one day that number of total reviews actually go much higher, about 70 more!! I usually add a title to that page each time I review a book, but there were some weeks when I totally forgot!

My biggest achievement was to FINALLY finish reading Don Quixote!
I realize I had forgotten to count Book 1 when I finished it in March, so I counted both books here, which makes my average slightly higher than what it should be.
I guess earlier on, I was planning on counting the 2 volumes of Don Quixote as 1 book, and wait for the end to list it. But now that I have read it all, I realize it makes much more sense to count it as 2 different books, as there were 11 years before the publication of volume 2.

I have also caught up a bit with reviews to write,
and I’m slowly but surely cleaning my Goodreads TBR shelf.

I was thrilled to have my review of Louise Penny’s latest book, A Better Man, be a featured review on Criminal Element.

So here is what I read in August:

13 books:
7 in print
= with 2,179 pages, an average of 70 pages/day
6 in audio
= 41H17, an average of 1H19
= this has to be my best audio time ever. I’m back to painting, that explains, as I like listening to audiobooks as I paint.
The total of books is also my highest of the year so far, even if I counted only 1 for Don Quixote.

7 in mystery:

Central Park, by Guillaume Musso – French audio
Goodbye Paris, by Mike Bond – for France Book Tours
Un appartement à Paris, by Guillaume Musso French audio
Diary of a Murderer, by Young-Ha Kim – ebook for review
Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, by Gaston Leroux – audio, for Classics Club
The Dark Lake, by Sarah Bailey
Surface, by Olivier Norek – French audio

4 in literary fiction:

Tales of Old Russia, by Paul Shukin – unpublished short stories by a friend of mine
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole – audio, for Classics Club
and 4. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, ebooks for Classics Club

1 in manga/Film comic adaptation: