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Books of Fall ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿต

While I did not truly participate in this year’s 20 Books of Summer challenge, I made my own list with specific goals and stuck to it from June through August. These were almost all books I own, and if felt good to get into my own collection that way. I’m going to continue what I’m doing by creating a list of fall reads for September through November. But first, let’s see what I accomplished in June, July, and August.

summer reading reviewed

chose to dnf

  • Big Man with a Shovel by Joe Amato (did not finish)
  • Going Bovine by Libba Bray (did not finish)
  • Kittentits by Holly Wilson (did not finish)

I didn’t get to these

  • The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
  • The Outsider by Richard Wright
  • Building a Life Out of Words by Shawn Smucker
  • Homing by Sherrie Flick
  • The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
  • Bitter Thirst by S.M. Reine (Preternatural Affairs #8)

My fall reading focuses on book club selections mostly, and a bingo book challenge I’m doing. Here’s what is forthcoming for September, October, and November:

book clubs, read alongs, and book bingo

  • The West Passage by Jared Pechaฤek (The Ursula K Le Guin Prize with Bill Halloway + Biscuit Book Club)
  • Slewfoot by BROM (Spooky Book Club)
  • Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls (Rotating Reads book club)
  • The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (Spooky Book Club)
  • Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (Spooky Book Club)
  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Biscuit Book Club + Lou & Nick)
  • Just Desserts by G.A. McKevett (bingo)
  • Quest for the Unknown: Bizarre Phenomena by Reader’s Digest (bingo)
  • The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson (bingo)
  • Icebreaker by Hannah Grace (bingo)
  • A Life in Letters by Zora Neale Hurston (bingo)
  • Ask Elizabeth: Real Answers to Everything You Secretly Wanted to Ask about Love, Friends, Your Body — and Life in General by Elizabeth Berkley (bingo)
  • Homing by Sherrie Flick

continuing series

  • No Good Deed by Allison Brennan (#10)
  • Bitter Thirst by S.M. Reine (Preternatural Affairs #8)

new books i own

  • Deaf Eyes on Interpreting, edited by Thomas H. Holcomb and David H. Smith
  • She Throws Herself Forward to Stop the Fall by Dave Newman
  • Compassion, Michigan by Raymond Luczak
  • Submerged by Hillel Levin

fat writers and characters

  • Fat! So? by Marilyn Wann
  • Syd Arthur by Ellen Frankel
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I'm a graduate of the MFA fiction writing program at the University of Notre Dame, which inspired me to follow along with trends in teaching, publishing, and reviewing. I also have an MA and BS from Central Michigan University. I used to teach composition, creative writing, and literature in higher education, then did a brief stint at a civic theater, followed by two years at a references desk at a public library. I'm now working toward my ASL Interpreter license.

18 comments

  1. I’m glad you’re going on with the UKLG Prize book. I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve read off this year’s short-list.

    Of the others, I should read Rebecca and Hurston’s letters .

    I looked for the Dave Newman but it’s not available here.

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    • You would click so much with Dave Newman: working class, truck driving, literary person. This is my third time reading Rebecca, but I’m doing a readalong with Biscuit and Lou and Nick this go around.

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  2. I’m really looking forward to rereading Rebecca! We’ve suddenly had a turn for very wet, autumnal weather after a hot dry summer, so I can’t wait to curl up with it in the evenings over the next few days.

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    • It’s gotten really cool here with a lot of moisture in the air. I keep checking on my mums to see if they’ve bloomed yet. It should be soon. How can I not love a fall flower?

      Also, I didn’t realize Rebecca is a repeat for you! I thought you said you’d never read it.

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  3. I love all the Fall emoticons in your title, this got me so excited for Fall reading, and especially spooky season!

    I love Rebecca, but I thought you had read it before? It was one of the first books I had read due to other book bloggers recommendations, and it did not disappoint. Perfect for Fall reading. Sounds like you’ve got some other good spooky reads coming up as well so I’m looking forward to following along. I’m doing some reading in September focused on Indigenous folks, as we have Truth and Reconciliation Day here in Canada on September 30. So, expect some of that coming your way first, and then spooky reads!

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    • I have seen a proliferation of funny fall memes on Facebook lately, and I’m here for it. I’ve actually read Rebecca twice before, but I thought that Lou, another blogger, had not read it, so we were going to do a read-along and include my mom. I’ll reread that one many times. It’s so cool that you’re focusing on Truth and Reconciliation Day, and I look forward to seeing those book reviews. I’ve picked up several indigenous authors’ novels from Canada thanks to your blog. Do you have any plans for spooky or horror reads? Maybe just something atmospheric?

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      • Actually now that I think of it you were probably one of the bloggers who convinced me to read Rebecca in the first place! No ground breaking plans for horror or spooky stuff yet. There’s a few that publishers have sent me, and I tend to collect them over the year and wait until October to enjoy them. Stay tuned ๐Ÿ™‚

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  6. Excellent summer of reading! Your fall list looks fab. Yay for Angela Carter! James brought home a galley copy of Slewfoot from the bookstore and it looks interesting but I’m not committed to picking up yet, so I look forward to your thoughts on it,

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