Boo to You October
Posted: 2017/10/02 | Author: gr4c5 | Filed under: Book Reviews, Early Review, Fiction, NonFiction | Tags: adventure, africa, audio books, biography, books, Charles Williams, Dorothy Gilman, Early Review, Fiction, greece, henry james, idaho, James Holman, Jason Roberts, Justine Hardy, Leon Edel, librarything, lists, Margaret Anne Doody, Maria Alyokhina, Nancy Butler, NonFiction, Patrick McCabe, Peter Allison, romance, series, turkey, Vardis Fisher, Victor Klemperer, world war ii |Leave a commentThe month had finally arrived for the half marathon, my first and only of 2017. Enough said about that.
Here are the books I have planned:
Fiction:
- The Aristotle Detective by Margaret Anne Doody ~ in honor of Greece’s Ochi Day
- All Hallows Eve by Charles Williams ~ in honor of what else? Halloween.
Nonfiction:
- Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison ~ in honor of the first safari leader’s birth month (Major Sir William Wallace Cornwallis Harris born October 1848. How’s that for a name?) (AB / print)
- Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts ~ in honor of James Holman’s birth month (AB)
Series Continuations:
- The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman ~ to continue the series started in September in honor of Grandparents Day.
- Henry James: the Master by Leon Edel ~ to continue (and finish) the series started in April in honor of James’s birth month
- We are Betrayed by Vardis Fisher ~ to continue the series started in August
Early Review for LibraryThing:
- Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina ~ and we are back to nonfiction.
If there is time:
- Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe (fiction)
- The Discarded Duke by Nancy Butler (fiction)
- In the Valley of Mist by Justine Hardy (nonfiction)
- I Will Bear Witness (vol.1) by Victor Klemperer (nonfiction)