Not really sure what happened in October, but my average is down!
Here is what I read in October:
8 books.
= 6 books with 1,844 pages, that is: 59.4 pages/day.
+ 2 audiobooks = 24:41 hours, that is an average of 47 mn/day – this is my best audio time of the year actually so far
4 historical novels:
- The Crown, by Nancy Bilyeau – audio
- Taking The Cross, by Charles Gibson
- The Sharp Hook of Love, by Sherry Jones
- Juliet’s Nurse, by Lois Leveen
2 in literary fiction:
- Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion, by Barbara Scott Emmett – ebook
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce – audio
1 romance/fantasy:
- Witch Weigh, by Caroline Mickelson -ebook, a novella I received to translate into French
1 in nonfiction:
- Seven Letters from Paris, by Samantha Vérant
My favorites this month:
This is again so terribly hard to choose:
I enjoyed a lot ALL of the books I read this past month!!
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Reading Challenges recap
Audiobook: 13/12 – DONE
Books on France: 49/24 – DONE
Ebook challenge: 19/25
Historical fiction: 30/25 – DONE
Japanese literature: 2/6
New authors challenge: 64/50 – DONE
My Kind of Mysteries: 17/20
TBR challenge: 3/12
What’s in a Name: 3/5
Where Are You Reading?: 16/50 – to be finished in 2014
Total of books read in 2014 = 84/105
Number of books added to my TBR in October = 21
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Blog recap
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6 of the 8 books read this month were received for review/work.
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94 reviews posted for my Books on France Challenge, don’t forget to link yours.
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I organized 11 giveaways this past month! There’s always one going on at France Book Tours. Be sure to check the November Giveaway! 3 books offered!
- Something funny happened on my reading front on Oct 31. For several reasons, I don’t do anything special for Halloween. But on that day, I read twice about the context in which Shelley wrote her Frankenstein, and in 2 books that are not directly on the topic at all: I read it in 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, the part about the Alps, and I heard about it in the audiobook I am currently listening to: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson. I think that was spooky enough!
- Nothing much else, I had a lot of books to read and review for tours, so was not able to catch up on reviews pending for months!
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Most popular book review in October
click on the cover to access my review
Most popular post last month – non book review
Sunday Post #11
Book blog that brought me
most traffic this past month
Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours
please go visit
Blog milestones
976 posts
over 1,900 subscribers
over 71,900 hits
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Blog plans for November
- Be sure you look what goodies I have for grab for the Literary Blog Hop giveaway
- And come back on November 28 for the Black Friday Book Bonanza!
- From now on to the end of the year, I’m going to try to focus on books I have been meaning to read for a while, though I already have quite a few books scheduled for January!
- I hope I can finally start to catch up on review writing – I was hoping to do something related to NaNoWriMo for that, but I’m currently translating a 40,000 words book anyway, so plenty of writing to do!
- Set up a few affiliates programs on Words And Peace
- get more active as for memes such as Teaser Tuesdays or First Chapter First Paragraph
- redo Sunday posts, which I was not able to participate for a couple of weeks
- redo some videos
- change the look of France Book Tours
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