Reading Challenge October Update
So now I’ve caught up on my running,(well, actually if you consider today’s run I’m not caught up with runs right now!), it’s time to catch up on my reading. Over the last couple of weeks I have finished two books! The first is the Pen/Faulkner winning Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, and then I finished Gracie: A Love Story written by her partner and husband George Burns!
They were the 43rd and 44th books that I have finished this year!! That leaves only 7 more to reach what I thought was a lofty goal of 51 books for the year!!
| Reading Challenge | From TBR Pile | Buy/Library | Total | Goal | %complete |
| 2015 Nonfiction Reading Challenge | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 55% |
| 2015 Cloak & Dagger Reading Challenge | 7 | 18 | 25 | 23 | 109% |
| 2015 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 80% |
| 2015 Science Fiction/Fantasy Challenge | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 58% |
| No Reading Challenge | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 100% |
| Totals | 13 | 44 | 51 | 86% | |
| 2015 TBR Pile Challenge | 13 | 25 | 52% |
Proposed November Reading Challenge Books
So I need one more historical fiction read to meet that reading challenge and five each to meet the non-fiction and Science Fiction challenges. Hum that makes eleven books and I don’t think that is happening! The one historical fiction is doable and then maybe three each from the other challenges that would get me to my goal of 51! Additionally, if I were to find all of those books on my to be read (TBR) shelves, well that would get me to 80% of my TBR Challenge goal which would be pretty good!! So excuse me while I look over my shelves for three nonfiction, three science fiction books and one historical fiction book on my TBR shelves!!
Ok so here’s a list of potential November reads.
| Currently Reading | Challenge | From |
| Dangerously Funny – David Bianculli | Nonfiction | TBR Pile |
| A Conspiracy of Paper– David Liss | Historical Fiction | TBR Pile |
| Stranger – Simon Clark | Science Fiction | TBR Pile |
| Secondhand Souls – Christopher Moore | Fantasy | Library |
Reading the story of Gracie Allen reminded me about how much I liked reading about folks like The Marx Brothers, George S Kaufman and other comedic actors and writers. So while I was reading the book I was thinking about Dangerously Funny the story about The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, one of my favorites!! Seems like a good time to read their story!
Likewise, reading the Richard Laymon book inspired me to pick up Simon Clark’s Stranger which I started yesterday, so far it;s pretty good!
Secondhand Souls was among the books I was supposed to read in October and it’s not due back at the library until the middle of next month so I still have time to read it!! A Conspiracy of Paper was a proposed read a few months ago, I’ll try once more to get into it!!
So there are my proposed November reads. I’ll try to write the reviews for Gracie and Snow Falling on Cedars tomorrow!! I will also try to write about today’s run!
George Burn’s in Gracie: A Love Story describes how one of his favorite movies to make was Damsel in Distress. In the movie, George and Gracie had to tap dance with Fred Astaire! Getting ready for the movie George remembered an old vaudeville act that danced with whisk brooms. George brought one of the dancers to Hollywood to teach he and Gracie the dance. They taught the dance to Astaire and he put it in the movie!! Here they are performing the dance!! And with that I’ll say – “Good Night, Ed!”