What I Plan to Read in November

[alisonwonderland]

There are about seven weeks left in the Fall into Reading Challenge. My original list required an approximately two-books-a-week pace. In the six weeks already gone by, I've read about ten books - but even that many was thanks in large part to the read-a-thon. While I hope to spend some time reading during the Thanksgiving Break, I won't have the ability (or the desire) to read for twenty-four hours. I'd still like to get through twenty-five or twenty-six books by December 20 though - but that'll require me to read more than eight books before the end of November.

(By the way, I've read 65 books year-to-date. My goal for the year was 104 - but I can't see any way I'm going to meet that. I guess I'm just going for as many as possible at this point.)

I'm currently reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. I've got just a bit to go - and this book will count for my "F" author for the A~Z Reading Challenge and as a "Book About Books" for the 888 Challenge.

I'm also currently reading - at a leisurely pace - Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant and Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott. A third memoir is in the CD player of my car, so I can "read" during my commuting time: Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox. All of those count for the "In Their Shoes" category of the 888 Challenge, as well as for the In Their Shoes Challenge.

In addition to finishing those four books - or at least making progress on the memoirs - I'd like to read the following:

For my primary IRL book club - Chocolat by Joann Harris. (This will count for the "IRL Book Picks" category of the 888 Challenge.)

For my church women's group book club - The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. (This will count for the Book Awards Reading Challenge II.)

For the Herding Cats Challenge (which ends on November 30) - Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury; Enchantment by Orson Scott Card; and The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen.

For the Every Month is a Holiday Challenge - either The Kommandment's Girl for Holocaust Awareness Month in April or In Her Shoes for Sisters Day in August. I already read Speak for November's International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women.

That's a total of ten books! I guess I better get on it ...