Total books read this month: 10
New to me authors:
Matt Haig
Janice Hadlow
Danielle Hawkins
Lauren K Denton
Top Book for November
Hard choice to make, didn’t really have a top read this month. They all almost rated 4 stars. One 3 star. However the one I was most taken by was The Other Bennet Sister, mainly because it surprised me at how much I enjoyed it.
Looking forward to reading in December
Already started reading Archangel’s Sun and I don’t have my sight set on anything else in particular.
Main Reading Goals for November were.
- read three books from my actual TBR shelf. I read one!
- read one lurking book from my Kindle TBR Yes – Almost Just Friends.
- keep up with the library reserves that land my way Pretty much, a few I put back after deciding after looking a bit more at them I didn’t want to read them just now.
- read some of the annotated Pride and Prejudice. I read a very small amount of it.
- reread a book ! Yes, by accident because I’d forgotten I’d read it but it still counts because I realised and kept going.
Main Reading Goals for December
- See if I can start off a cozy mystery series that I’ll keep reading. I have a first book to pick up from the library.
- read on actual book from my TBR print shelf and one from my Kindle
- think about some reading goals for 2021 and write them down.
Incoming Books for November
Purchased
Library Books
From NetGalley
Audio Books
Linking up with Nicole from FeedYourFiction Addiction.
We watch the unlikely friendship of a ninety two year old woman – Mrs G, and Raymond a seventeen year old, develop. And its a meaty friendship – genuine and full of caring. I loved both these characters and how they related to each other. Mrs G is blind, she has lived a full life and has a lot of wisdom. But she is in need of help big time. Raymond is a lonely seventeen year old – one who feels he has never been “seen” or understood. Mrs G really sees him! Loved this relationship.
In One Summer in Paris we see the friendship between Grace – in her forties and a teen Audrey. Grace has come to Paris to escape the fact her husband has left her for a “new version” about the same age as their daughter! Audrey has come to escape the alcoholism disease that her mother has. Due to various circumstances they form a great friendship that helps both of them move forwards in their lives. Loved the two of them, loved the book.
The beautiful friendship that develops between Arthur and Maddy. An old man who visits his wife at the cemetery every day, and Maddy an eighteen year old teen who really is very alone.
There’s more than friendship in this book, but.. there is some examples of wonderful, positive friendship. Especially the one that develops between Gray and Diana. Gray is divorced and 34. Diana is about 40 and is really down on her luck. Diana ends up working for Gray who is a reasonably wealthy woman who needs some good organisation and Diana is your one. They both have big challenges in life but the bond that forms between them, moves each of them forwards and into what is likely to be a life long friendship.
I’ve mentioned this book before in terms of an author I now want to read everything he writes. But here I want to mention the theme of friendship where it makes a huge difference in some lives. It’s between an old woman and a young child and the old woman and the little girls parents. I really loved seeing how it all developed.
