Wow it is actually ridiculous how quickly these months are going by; how is it November already? Anyway October was good fun for me – we had our school charity RAG week and a sixth form social (I think I am still recovering even now!) and this week’s holiday was definitely needed.
October was a pretty good reading month for me considering how poor September was!
Here’s what I read in October 2012:
Fermat’s Last Theorem - Simon Singh
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest – Stieg Larsson
This is good as I aim to read at least three books every month. This is 2 more than I read in September! It’s also a good variety as it’s one non fiction, one fiction and one classic. Also, my target of at least one classic every month was fulfilled in October by Macbeth.
Challenge Progress in October 2012:
The Classics Club : 8/60 books read (Macbeth)
The Victorian Challenge 2012: 4/6 books read (None this month)
The Literary Classics Reading Challenge: 6/15 (Macbeth)
Need to read Middlemarch and Villette for The Victorian Challenge but I doubt I will manage both – Middlemarch beat me when I tried at the beginning of September.
Currently In Progress:
Currently in progress is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, which I thought would be a bit of a struggle but so far I am really enjoying it and keeping on top if it. Also I am reading E=mc² by David Bodanis as my current science book; his prose is not quite as good as Simon Singh’s so far.
November Plans:
Books: The next three books on my TBR shelf are The Visible World by Mark Slouka, Middlemarch still and Villette by Charlotte Brontë! Cloud Atlas is pretty big and I am reading two books at the moment so I can’t see myself getting much past The Visible World after them.
Challenges: If I do get round to Middlemarch or Villette, they would both count towards all 3 challenges.
September was such a dismal reading month for me that I didn’t even bother with a monthly wrap-up so I am glad that I am out of my reading rut. I am just cautious of pushing myself back into it by forcing Middlemarch upon myself again. It just seems too big and obscure (I don’t know anything about it and people don’t seem to talk about Eliot as much as say Dickens or Austen) for my life at the moment – maybe it will be something I adore but only if I get time to appreciate it properly; a holiday read next year? Who knows but I don’t want to completely discard it yet as so many people love it. Don’t judge a book by its cover size?
