Monthly Recap Time!
Total of Six: 
Number of pages: 2427, number of hours: 30.74 ♦ Total pages for year-to-date: 27,266 ◘ total hours: ~270
What Kind, Where From:
Tradeback owned + Audio from library 
Radium Girls by Kate Moore
The Promise 
eBook by Damon Galgut (Booker Prize)
A Spindle Spintered by Alix Harrow 
eBook/Libby
Leading with Questions Hardcover/Work-provided by Mark Marquardt 
Infinite Country by Patricia Engle eBook/Libby
Cloud Cuckoo Land 
Audiobook/Audible by Anthony Doerr
Rather than saying my favorite read of the month, I will wow you with the statement that I gave ALL the fiction 5 slices of pie and one of the Nonfiction. The other only other nonfic I read, I gave 2 slices. (Ugh; it was a slog.)
These books took me on visits to New Jersey near NYC and to a small town in Illinois, NYC and the country of Columbia. The Booker Prize put me in South Africa, the fairy tale was grounded in Pennsylvania (IIRC) and then in the land of princesses and dragons and scary forests to pass through. Cloud Cuckoo Land was in the past in Constantinople — the recent past in Idaho — some Vietnam or was it Korea? — and in the future to an outerspace somewhere sealed away for decades.
Nonfiction November fell a part for me once the TOB Long List hit the newsstand. I became obsessed and abandoned almost the entirety of my Litsy #BookSpinBingo card. I gave up blogging. I could only focus on a few things and that was TOB and family stuff, I guess.
I didn’t even update my book tracker but thankfully I had goodreads. Whew!
Speaking of THANKFUL and since it’s November’s recap… let’s talk Pie! All of the books I enjoyed mention pie. One was “a slice of pie” (a slice of RADIUM pie!), one mentions a pie pan, and one used the word “piebald” — hey, it counts. One features empanadas, one said something about “hand-raised pie” or somethingsomething British-Baking-Show (and now my count is off), but finally! one discusses milk tart – has to be a custard and I need to search more, and also CHICKEN PIE.
I myself made Pecan. Oh. and…. Lyle Lovett liked my tweet of the pic of my Pecan pie for #SecularPieThursday. SQUEEEEEEEEEE!
And rather than ask you what your fave was for the month already 8+ days ago, I will point you to JoAnn’s Gulfside Musings Nonfiction November final post that features some really enticing reads that maybe I can get to next year?
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Great November. I have the audio of Cloud Cuckoo but, am waiting for the print from the library to make this a combo read/listen. Glad you loved it. The Promise is also on my library holds list. I have read Infinite Country and thought it was very good. Have a great December.
A duo print+listen Cloud Cuckoo Land is an EXCELLENT idea, though the audio became easier once the first few hours were out of the way. Happy December to you, too!
All five fiction books were 5 stars? That’s wonderful and a rarity. So cool about Lyle Lovett. I’ll have to take a look at the Longlist.
Ah, the only one I’ve read is Harlem Shuffle! Quite a few on my TBR list though.
And the shortlist was announced late LAST WEEK! Did you see that, too?
What a fantastic reading month! And your pecan pie is lovely. I be it tasted even better than it looks 🙂
It was a great; but also sad that I failed Nonfiction November.
I thought I had a ridiculous number of five-star reads in November, but you’ve got me beat! Infinite Country will be on my list of favorites this year and I’m looking forward to reading The Promise.
Let me know if you decide to read any of those nonfiction titles… it’s been a while since we did a read-along/ buddy read. 🙂