NOVEMBER: 21 Books Read. 156 Hours Spent
YTD: 182 Books Read, 1627 Hours Spent
All I wanted to do this month was to read. I tried to keep up with the review writing but I got behind, far, far behind. I will have to figure out how to catch up at least on some of it. Only eight of the titles I read were for 24 Festive Tasks (finding appropriate books has been a challenge) -- again, behind, far, far behind. I have met some new authors this month, some are keepers while other are one and done. I enjoyed the Agatha Christie November side-read by Josephine Bell and hope I can find more of her books on audio. The same can be said of not-quite cozy mystery writers Donna Andrews and Ellery Adams. Martha Grimes's Richard Jury and Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver are growing on me. In fact, I have so many "project authors" to get through right now (Cleeves, Penny, Marsh, Pratchett and others) that I'm not sure I need to look for new authors for a while. Ben Sheehan (worst book of the month), Daniel Mason and Peter Robinson are one and done-- the first for sure, the latter two at least for now.
- Wild Fire -- Ann Cleeves -- NEW101
- A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth -- Daniel Mason -- NEW102
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans -- Agatha Christie -- NEW103
- The Port of London Murders -- Josephine Bell -- NEW104
- Owls Well That Ends Well -- Donna Andrews -- NEW105
- Seven Years -- Peter Robinson -- NEW106
- The Old Fox Deceiv'd -- Martha Grimes -- NEW107
- Quick Service -- P.G. Wodehouse -- NEW108
- Miss Silver Intervenes -- Patricia Wentworth -- NEW109
- Dead Water -- Ann Cleeves -- NEW110
- Last Ditch -- Ngaio Marsh -- NEW111
- In the Hurricane's Eye -- Nathaniel Philbrick -- NEW112
- The Cruelest Month -- Louise Penny -- NEW113
- OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? -- Ben Sheehan -- NEW114
- Murder in the Storybook Cottage -- Ellery Adams -- NEW115
- Spinsters in Jeopardy -- Ngaio Marsh -- NEW116
- Snuff -- Terry Pratchett -- NEW117
- The Gatekeepers -- Chris Whipple -- NEW118
- The Lion in Winter -- James Goldman -- NEW119
- The Curse of The Pharaoh -- Elizabeth Peters -- NEW120
- A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens -- Re-read