Finished 6 NONFICTION books in October. The tagged book was my favorite. I love biographies, especially when they are about fascinating people I didn‘t know anything about.
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Finished 6 NONFICTION books in October. The tagged book was my favorite. I love biographies, especially when they are about fascinating people I didn‘t know anything about.
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The tagged book was my pick of the 5 FICTION books I completed in October. It was a fun tongue-in-cheek read, but did not hold a candle to September‘s pick: “The Trees” by Percival Everett. Which set up a very difficult decision for the quarterfinals. In the end, my heart is still with “Stoner,” which moves on.
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Just one NONFICTION book completed in September—but it likely would have been the winner anyway. This is the kind of narrative nonfiction that really grabs me.
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Completed 8 books in September, 7 of which were FICTION. The clear winner, however, was “The Trees” by Percival Everett. It‘s the third book by Everett I‘ve read this year, and it‘s my favorite. The man is a genius.
For August's #2024ReadingBrackets NONFICTION I chose the tagged book by Timothy Egan. It‘s a grisly yet engrossing account of the Ku Klux Klan‘s rise to power in Indiana in the 1920s. The parallels to today are also scary and sobering. It was a fascinating read that also took down its challenger and moves to a semifinal slot. Honorable mention for a wild-card slot was “Beyond the High Blue Air” by Lu Spinney, a poignant, heartbreaking memoir.
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August was a productive month, with 13 books completed – thanks in large part to an enforced period of time on the couch after my knee surgery as well as several events that involved hours of travel to get there. Eight of the books were FICTION. Of those, I gave the nod to “God of the Woods” by Liz Moore as the top pick. Great read, but it's no match for “Stoner“ -- which moves on into the semifinals.
July made for some very difficult decisions in the NONFICTION bracket for #2024ReadingBrackets. After much deliberation, the tagged book advanced to the quarterfinals.
My FICTION pick for July in my #2024ReadingBrackets was a no-brainer. “Stoner” has an excellent shot at going all the way. The book is just that good.
The FICTION bracket had all the action for June! There were 3 novels that could have taken the top spot, and I struggled to crown one. So 2 ended up in the bonus spots to battle each other! After much deliberation, the tagged book got the nod. It was a tough pick. And it was difficult to choose the one to move into the finals. In the end, though, my heart had to go with the Thornton Wilder-Ann Patchett two-fer.
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Here‘s my NONFICTION bracket for June. The tagged book was the winner, but only because most of the nonfiction I read this month was merely OK. It won‘t progress to the finals. Hoping for a better July with NF picks.
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