October is such a wonderful month around here (2 birthdays, an anniversary, and a week long book sale to coordinate), but I’m always exhausted by Halloween. Now that November is here I’m deep into Cybils Awards reading . I’m a panelist for the first round of Nonfiction (elementary, middle, and high school). There are 205 books to read and I finished number 83 last night. This photo is my October reading with many of the picture books showing. I think elementary level reading accounts for about half of the books to read and the vast majority of what I’ve read so far. This week I need to start diving into more of the high school books.
Books read
I have SO MANY books in this house right now with so many different piles that I’m not even sure how many books I read YESTERDAY (but I know it was more than 5). Let’s just say that Goodreads tells me I’ve read 277 for the year and even if I’ve missed a book or two in the reading frenzy, I feel that’s fairly accurate.
Posts
I did manage to listen to an adult audio book and post about it! The Girl with All the Gifts. It’s an older book, but it was a fun Halloween-time apocalyptic horror thriller.
When Jason and I took a trip to the Finger Lakes region in New York, I stopped in a cute little bookstore and found a few books from a historical romantic suspense series that I loved. It encouraged me to post about it. The Deadly series by Brenda Joyce.
I’ve also posted about actor Viggo Mortensen and about the wonderful kids book A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness recently.
TV
Jason and I have worked our way through season 2 of The Wheel of Time series on Amazon with plans to watch the finale tonight. We’re also watching the Great British Bake Off on Netflix.
Plans for the weekend
It’s going to be 60 degrees here! Woo hoo! So, it’s the day to clean out the garage before it gets too cold. We bought a snow blower and we need to find room for it 🙂
Hopefully you’ve got more exciting plans.
Stacy's Books 
If you have Apple TV+, you have to watch Lessons in Chemistry. It is fantastic!
We don’t have Apple TV, but have heard nothing but accolades, We may have to break down and get it someday.
We pay $6.99, which is a lot cheaper than Netflix which is going from $9.99 to $11.99. And, by the way, if you do get Apple TV, they have some fantastic shows.
Maybe we should switch it up!
IF you do, let me know. I will give you recommendations for some excellent shows. P.S. Have you watched the documentary Beckham on Netflix? It is outstanding. And it doesn’t matter if you like soccer.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I considered doing Cybils nonfiction this year, thinking somehow that the workload might be a little smaller than the picture book/board book panel. But, whew, you have a lot of books nominated this year. Good luck. I can’t wait to hear what your favorites are.
A Monster Calls is such a beautifully written and emotionally rich book.
It’s the YA and middle school books that slow things down! I could do do 300 picture books in the time it takes me to get through 35 teen books 🙂 That being said, I’m finding much better quality in the selections this year.
I hope you can relax a bit more this month! I loved A Monster Calls…I read that one with Gabe and we both bawled like babies.
Girl With All the Gifts was really good too. I loved the twist. The movie wasn’t as good but still watchable. Good luck with all of your reading for Cybils!
Oh, I forgot that I saw there was a movie! I’ll have to find it (and adjust expectations). I didn’t read A Monster Calls with Gage yet, but I will. I’m interesting in his reaction.
So many books! The Wheel of Time series sounds good!
I’m not brave enough to read the series, so I’ll stick to the show as long as they make it! It’s very women-centric.
That’s A LOT of books! Congrats on the snow blower… won’t be too much longer before you’re going to need it! 😉
Still sunny and beautiful. but I’m sure snow isn’t too far off.
I just reviewed the ARC of a children’s book to be published early next year. It’s educational for children and adults, about a seven year old Hmong immigrant girl who stops speaking at school even though she can speak English.
Harvee at https://bookdilettante.blogspot.com/