Ah, October! Santa Ana winds, a three-day jaunt to the desert (the “real” desert, not the coastal Southern California desert), taking my kids to the thrift store to buy costume components…and reading a few books, including a decent stab at the October Dewey’s Readathon. I posted on Litsy during the Readathon. That’s where you can find most of my updates between Bookends posts these days, if you’d like more of that kind of thing.
A little visual interest before the book lists. This is The World Famous Crochet Museum in a converted drive-thru photo developing place in Joshua Tree, California:
Finished in October (12):
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Chime by Franny Billingsley
24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Weekby Tiffany Shlain
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
Ohio by Stephen Markley (audio)
The Changeling by Victor LaValle (audio)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
The Odyssey by Homer (Emily Wilson translation, read-aloud with my children)
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (audio)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (audio)
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (audio)
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
Currently Reading:
The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
The Existentialist’s Survival Guide by Gordon Marino
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliffe (read-aloud with my son, who will still snuggle with me on the couch if I read to him)
To-Read for November:
Subject to change, as always, but here are some I particularly want to hit:
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
And I have some middle-grade novels I’d like to work on.
Imperfect Happiness 