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Here are my upcoming plans for the year. I love having a monthly focus, and I find it helps with my reading productivity. By setting aside a week or a month to focus on middle grade, or ARCs, or chunky books i tend to do better with hitting goals, and avoiding slumps.

Not all of these events are hosted by me, just ones I plan to participate in. Check out the hashtags as the months get closer, if you‘d like to join along. ❤️

My November Wrap Up

The Five was definitely my best of the month. I hadn‘t read much about Jack the Ripper before, but this look at the lives of the women he attacked was riveting. (For a great fiction pairing I‘d recommend People of Abandoned Character, which I read in Oct.)

Others I really liked: Sourdough, Scorpica, Life on the Rocks, Bi, and Fatty Fatty Boom Boom. Only 7 for #NonfictionNovember, but I‘m satisfied with that.

I‘m behind on my November #bookspin reviews. This was an interesting story about the murders of members of the Osage tribe in the 1920s. At the same time the FBI was being formed. It‘s again stories that you never really learn about in school but important ones to understand what happened in American history. Some of it dragged on in some sections but still an interesting read. #nonfictionnovember

This was a fun read to dip in and out of, although it got a bit samey in places.

The author decided to promote his previous book by visiting 100 bookshops across Britain, just after bookshops re-opened after forced pandemic closures. Along the way he unearths unusual, mainly non-fiction, books in charity shops to use as prompts in his book talks.

This was my last book for #nonfictionnovember

#bookspin #doublespin @thearomaofbooks

Oh this feels like cheating! Both of these books were holdovers from last months #nonfictionNovember and I finished the #bookspin yesterday, and started the #DoubleSpin last night!

This means I can work on the 4 books I didn't get to earlier in the year.

#BookSpinBingo #NovemberWrapUp

Read a total of 17 books and had 1 DNF. 1 Bingo.

Read 6 NF books for #NonFictionNovember and loved all but one.

Finished 3 more #Booked2022 prompts, one left to finish the year.

“Everybody subsequently agreed that the news media should have offered better coverage of the epidemic much earlier, and that the federal government should have done much, much more. By the time everyone agreed to this however it was too late. Instead people died. Tens of thousands of them.”

Hard hitting, comprehensive & tragic. Over 600 pages but it read fast.

Read for #Booked2022 - About the AIDS epidemic. Also works for #NonfictionNovember

That‘s a wrap on #nonfictionnovember for me - I liked most of what I read, which is a plus for sure. I‘ll continue to try to primarily read nonfic throughout December, tho, to see if I can get a 50/50 balance of fix-nonfic for the year #fingerscrossedicandoit #thoithinkcomicswillwinmyattention 😅

Read my #bookspin and #doublespin. Only three nonfiction for #nonfictionnovember. No bingo. #bookspinbingo

"Still it made no sense to Pershing that one set of people could be in a cage, and the people outside couldn't see the bars."

Such an excellent description of how racism and the people who allow it to continue.
#nonfictionNovember