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:
- Oh, the Meetings You’ll Go To!: A Parody, by Dr Suits – graphic “novel”
- Elder Leonid of Optina, by Fr Clement Sederholm – Eastern Orthodoxy
- Secret Agent Brainteasers: More Than 100 Codebreaking Puzzles Inspired by Britain’s Espionage Masterminds, by Sinclair McKay – ebook, for review
- Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance
by Elena Perekrestov – Eastern Orthodoxy
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson – audio, for The Classics Club
- The Parables: Biblical, Patristic, and Liturgical Interpretation, by Dmitri Royster – Eastern Orthodoxy
- A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind, by Shoukei Matsumoto
2 in mystery:
- Solving Cadence Moore, by Gregory Sterner, for review
- Avalanche hôtel, by Niko Tackian- French audiobook
2 in manga:
- My Neighbor Totoro, vol. 3 by Hayao Miyazaki
- My Neighbor Totoro, vol. 4 by Hayao Miyazaki
1 in literary fiction:
- Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald – audio, for The Classics Club
1 in science-fiction:
- Supernova Era, by Liu Cixin – for review
1 in historical fiction:
- 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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