Welcome to November and the start of German Literature Month. This reading event hosted by Lizzy and Caroline is now in it’s 10th year. That’s so wonderful isn’t it? I haven’t been able to join in every year but this year I really couldn’t miss it. I already had to miss my annual trip to Germany, at least I can travel via books.

There are different ways to participate and the last week there will be a read along. Of course you can read as you like too of course.

I will warn you, I may be posting more pictures from my travels through Germany so I hope you don’t mind.

As far as the books are concerned, I do have some authors I would like to discover like Gunter Grass, Herman Hesse, and Christa Wolf. I don’t have a lot of books on my shelf by German authors to choose from so this may be a good opportunity to do a bit of book shopping. Anything to add new books right? Ha.

Lizzy and Caroline have some great suggestions if you need don’t know where to start. I have also found this interesting list of 100 German Must Reads. I’ve only read three of those books. If you are more into thrillers, here is a list of Top Five German Thrillers.

I’m going to go through my shelves and see what I can find for this challenge. Let me know if you are joining in or if you have some authors/books to recommend. And, most of all, have a great reading month!

As opposed to last month, October seems to have flown by for me. I think it’s mainly due to all the projects I have going on at work which is why my blogging has been a bit hit or miss this month. However, my reading was better this month.

I finished four books:  The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tutti and The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey. These were all oh so good. I’ve once again fallen behind on my reviews but I will write more about them one of these days but do recommend them.

Now, with that said, my least favorite was Anxious People. I hate to admit that because I know Backman’s books are so well-received around the book blog community and I think this is a case of having very high expectations and the book was good but it didn’t wow me. This is my first book by this author so I don’t have anything else to compare it to but I would love to read another and see how we get on.

I wanted to read more spooky books for the R.I.P. XV reading challenge but I only finished two and that’s ok. Both were excellent so I am happy I read them. We are probably going to watch a scary movie tomorrow night so looking forward to that. And, am I the only one who hadn’t listened to Lore? I finally started listening to it and have enjoyed it so I will probably tune in for some scary stories tonight while I craft.

Now on to November and there are are a couple of reading events I want to participate in and the Texas Book Festival kicks off tomorrow. Yay. I already have registered for several readings next weekend. So more on all of that soon. In the meantime, have a Happy Halloween! We  have some treats ready for our movie watching on Saturday.

I hope you had a great reading month and would love to hear if you discovered any new authors. What are you looking forward to in November?