Top Ten Books
By My Favorite Authors
That I Still Haven’t Read

TTT for September 25, 2018
#TopTenTuesday

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So glad to be back for this Top Ten Tuesday

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Have you read any of these?
Which one is your favorite?
What’s the book you are most
looking forward to finally reading?

November 2017 wrap-up

Another interesting month of reading, with quite a bit of diversity!
And I have reached 101 books, out of my goal of 100, so this year should be quite a record!

Here is what I read this past month:

9 books:
7 in print
= with 1,588 pages, that is: 52 pages/day
+ 2 audiobooks
= with 23H20, that is: 46 mn/day.

4 in mystery:

Venetian Blood, by Christine Evelyn Volker – ebook
Sous les vents de Neptune, by Fred Vargas – audiobook
Blackbird Fly, by Lise McClendon – ebook
Dans les bois éternels, by Fred Vargas – audiobook

4 in nonfiction:

One Sip at a Time, by Keith Van Sickle
The Sherlock Holmes Book
A Taste of Paris, by David Downie
Poppies of Iraq, by Brigitte Findakly – graphic “novel”

1 graphic novel

Peppy in the Wild West, by Hergé

My favorites in November

Taste of Paris Sous les vents de Neptune

Reading Challenges recap

Classics Club: 24/50 (until end of 2018)
Back to the Classics Challenge: 6/6-12
Mount TBR: 16/48
Where Are You Reading?: 21/50 – to be finished in ??

Total of books read in 2017 = 101/100!

Number of books added to my TBR in November= 33

Blog recap in November

I participated in Nonfiction November, which made me of course add quite a few nonfiction books to my TBR!
I organized 2 giveaways. It was fun to be part of the Gratitude Giveaway Hop. There will be something similar in December!
The giveaway for December at France Book Tours is very special and now available.
As part of the Classics Club, we got our new spin – see here what I got!
My public library is organizing a winter challenge: we had to mention our favorite genres and list our last 4 books read, and they pick a book for us to read and review in December. Isn’t that fun? I’m totally thrilled and will tell you on Monday what they picked for me.

Most popular book review in November

click on the cover to access my review.
Posted 5 years ago.
Yes, again the most viewed this month!!

Most popular post last month
– non book review –

Born a Crime: Chap 9-14 read-along

Book blog that brought me
most traffic this past month

Stuck in Books

Top commenters of the month

Inspired by Becca at I’m Lost in Books!
and her Blogger Shout-Outs feature

= 1 point per month for the top 3.
The one who has the most points at the end of the year will receive a gift!
NB: just congratulating winners of giveaways does not count as a real comment 😉

11: Karen at Booker Talk

11: Kristyn at Reading to Unwind

10: Lucy at The Fictional 100

Blog milestones

1,716 posts
over 4,360 subscribers
over 145,400 hits

Plans for December

Post a surprise tomorrow, with my first participation in a special kind of exercise
Participate in December Giveaway Hop
Write a bunch of mini reviews, do a few videos – we can always dream, right?
Read the book I got for Classics Spin, and the book picked by the library staff

Come back on Monday
to see all the books I plan to read in December!

How was YOUR month of November?

Kathryn at The Book Date
has created a Month In Review meme
I’ll now be linking my monthly recap posts
Thanks Kathryn, great idea!

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#NonficNov

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Here is the topic for week 2, hosted by Sarah’s Book Shelves

Book Pairings

This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title.
It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!”
or just two titles that you think would go well together.
Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history
by reading a nonfiction version of the story.