Here is what we're reading in November, 2015:

Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann

How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny.

The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope.

Red Bones by Ann Cleaves. Excellent mystery set in the Shetland Islands.

I'm going to read I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes because my friends have recommended it.

Finally getting to Hard Times by Charles Dickens. It's been at the top of my TBR pile for years and I've been ignoring it.

Doing home renos/repairs, so back to my comfort zone:crime fiction. Just finished The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg

Reading Hungry Ghosts by Peggy Blair. She is a Canadian author who lives in Ottawa, and this is her third crime/ mystery, set both in Cuba and Canada.

>7 ted74ca: Enjoy your comfort reading and best of luck with your repairs.

I had a few wonderful days reading in a cabin by the sea. I enjoyed reading No Country for Old Men, The Birdwatcher and The mystery of Swordfish Reef. Not sure what I will start this evening.

I'm reading Out of this World by Graham Swift...a reward of reading a favourite author after reading outside my comfort zone.

I have finally started The Book of Negroes.

>11 fmgee: Oh I loved The Book of Negroes. One of my all time favourites. I hope you enjoy it!

re The Book of Negroes, I found the main character just too perfect.

>12 vancouverdeb: & >13 LynnB:: I am finding it a gripping but somewhat uncomfortable read so far.

I've put aside Hard Times to read The Inconvenient Indian for book club. It's very readable, but I think I'd prefer to read one of Thomas King's fiction pieces instead.

The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu. Good reading.

I'm reading A Brief History of Seven Killings which won the Man Booker prize this year. Wow! It's terrific. The book (at least the first part) is set in Kingston Jamaica in December 1976. I don't think I knew before this that Bob Marley had been shot in his home on Dec 3 1976 right before he was supposed to give a big concert for peace. The events are given from the point of view of many different people including ghetto residents, the CIA chief in Jamaica, a writer for The Rolling Stone magazine and a young woman who once slept with Marley.

I was in Jamaica in 1970. Violence was not as bad as it became by 1976 but you could feel its presence. The author grew up in Jamaica and he captures this time perfectly.

I'm reading Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper by Jody Mitic. Amazing Race Canada fans may recognize Jody from season one.

I just finished The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor, the first woman settler in the Miramichi. I can't tell you how appreciative I am that my ancestors had to settle in the rough, rather than me. Women had to be so tough back then it almost defies belief. This book so reminded me of Susanna Moody's Roughing it in the Bush and Charlotte Gray's Sisters in the Wilderness. Well-written and an enjoyable read.

Read The Mammy and have now started The Chisellers by the same author, Brendan O'Carroll. An Irish writer, who wrote a trilogy about life in Dublin in the 1950's -1960's. Heartbreaking and humourous.

I'm reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I'm not enjoying it at all. The author obviously took no time to do any research on French culture, let alone during World War II, and seemed suspiciously inspired by La bicyclette bleue to the point that it might qualify for plagiarism (ironically, the way Régine Desforges was accused of plagiarising Gone with the Wind).

I'm reading Layover by Lisa Zeidner.

I am now reading The Girl on the Train. The first couple of pages sure reminds me of my brief stink working in London and travelling to work on the trains. Not sure where the book is going to go.

>21 Cecilturtle:, I'm reading the Nightingale too and it's falling flat for me.

I'm reading Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier which has been on the TBR shelves for almost 2 years.

Finished both The Chisellers and the The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll. Excellent trilogy of Irish life in Dublin some years ago. Not sure what is next.

Sweetland by Michael Crummey. Great reading.

I read Fates and Furies, very good. Also enjoyed Girl Waits with Gun, along with several others that have just blended in to holiday time. I just noticed I've recorded 82 books read so far this year! I can barely recall some of them.

>13 LynnB: She really comes across this way in the mini-series as well. I really enjoyed the book but I totally get what you are saying.

After the terrible The Nightingale which essentially plagiarized La bicyclette bleue and where the author did absolutely no research (there are so many incorrect facts that it's disturbingly laughable), I read Murder in the rue Dumas by LM Longworth. Also an Anglophone writing about France, the author does a terrific job of imparting the lovely decor with likeable and vivacious characters.

Will likely go Canadian next with Six degrés de libertés by Nicolas Dickner

Currently reading The Suspect by Michael Robotham. A mystery/ thriller that was recommended in the Vancouver Sun - thought I'd give it a try.

I'm reading Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano. 1/4 through it and am already thinking of reading more by this author.

Just finished a very quick but rather dull mystery novel: Missing by Cath Staincliffe.

Reading Sky Bridge by Laura Pritchett.

I'm reading Without You There is No Us by Suki Kim

I'm reading Fifteen Dogs right now.

>35 LynnB: I hope you're enjoying that as much as I did. Along with Nothing to Envy, it was one of my top books last year.

I am enjoying it a great deal so far!

I just finished The Illegal by Lawrence Hill. Not as epic as Book of Negroes, but a really good read with memorable characters.

A "thriller" that wasn't too thrilling as I could see what was coming, but still a good read just to see how all the threads fit together. Eager to Please by Julie Parsons.

Reading Red Lightning by Laura Pritchett.

I'm reading I Am Malala in preparation for a group discussion at my local library.

Very moving memoir: Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself by Russell Wangersky

Reading The Children Act by Ian McEwan

I'm a third of the way in to Camomile Lawn, by Mary Wesley. I had never heard of this novel or this author until a few weeks ago and I'm enjoying my discovery. Wesley was in her 70s when she started publishing her books. Camomile Lawn is about the early days of WWII in England, and few scenes in the 1970s when the characters are older. Fascinating, but not for the prim and proper.

#45 - I almost got it at the library this afternoon but thought it might be too summery and prissy for the season - you've changed my mind :-)

>46 Cecilturtle: That's funny. No, Camomile Lawn is certainly not prissy. Very mid-century English, yes, but prissy, no. Of the reviews I've read, most readers like it a lot, and the few who don't like it are uncomfortable by the sexual relationships.

Just finished Mrs. Queen takes the Train and found it delightful. Just starting The Evening Chorus and hope it's as interesting. Seem to be on an English trip these days!

Took a short break last night to start and finish Joyce Carol Oate's Black Water, which is a fictional retelling of the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick Incident. Oates is always very readable but dark.

Ending the month with Not in my Father's Footsteps by Terrence Rundle West.

I am about a third of the way through Walt and I think I am going to quit as it just does not grab me at all.

Just finished Fifteen Dogs by Alexis and really liked it. I can see why it's winning things.

51. I really enjoyed Walt. Different strokes....

Just finished # 3 in this crime fiction series: The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg

51 and 53 And I read Walt and I was more or less middling about the book. It was okay, worth the read, but no big deal.

53 and 55: I usually don't give up on a book but I felt a sense of relief about giving this one back to the library today. I thought I was really going to enjoy it... good thing I have one or two others sitting around!