Ah, November! Last month ended with four or five novels being read but with no opportunity to finish them on time. Add to that a couple of novels I really wanted to read and never got to them. I know that selecting a reading pool of 25 books for the month guarantees a reading shortfall even if I do read eight of ten books, but most of time I just move the unread titles ahead and don’t think much about it. This last month I ended with a definite feeling of disappointment at my results.
However, I can easily point to the cause of my shortfall: Netflix!
Between Netflix and HBO and any other sources of movies and series on the internet, I could easily fill up all of my spare time and been reasonably entertained. Nowadays the most serious challenge to my reading is a new series on Netflix or HBO. Somewhere between Westworld and Kimmy Schmidt.
Still, I have a challenging pool of reading for November:
- Taduno’s Song: A Novel — Odafe Atogun
- 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl — Mona Awad
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine — Alina Bronsky
- The Librarian — Mikhail Elizarov
- Now Wait For Last Year — Philip K. Dick
- Fat City — Leonard Gardener
- Travesty — John Hawkes
- Rock n Roll Babes From Outer Space — Linda Jaivin
- We Live Inside You — Jeremy Robert Johnson
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ: A Novel — José Saramago
- The Committee — Sun’Allah Ibrahim
- The Ogre — Michel Tournier
- The Illogic of Kassel — Enrique Vila-Matas
- I Hotel — Karen Tei Yamashita
- Violence: Six Sideways Reflections — Slavoj Zizek
Saul Bellow
- Humboldt’s Gift
- Dangling Man
- More Die of Heartbreak
Ismail Kadare
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
- The Accident
- The Ghost Rider
David Mitchell
- The Bone Clocks
- Cloud Atlas
- Slade House