Well, October didn’t go as planned. I was able to knock out some serious reading, but I have zero blog posts to show for it. In addition to reading, October was dedicated to working on my book, Read to Succeed.
This weekend, I will be catching up on all the book reviews. I am looking forward to November. With a five day holiday, I will get some serious reading done. Perhaps I will finish The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. How is your reading going? Come and check out my reading list and read along with me this November.
I am pretty excited about my reading stack for November. I have been asked to do another review. I like to do them because I have no idea what will be shared with me. I also picked up another book to meet a Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge category, another book further explores the life of Major Dick Winters, and finally, I will be relaxing with a mystery written by a local author who I had met at the neighborhood bookstore.
Here is what is on my reading list for November 2018:
Get It Done: The 21-Day Mind Hack System to Double Your Productivity and Finish What You Start
This is the book I have been asked to do a review on. I have not even scanned through it so I do not know a lot about it. I can’t wait to get started.
Via Amazon:
Bringing your most important ideas to life isn’t easy. If you find yourself procrastinating, too busy to get your most important work done, or not sure how to get started, something needs to change before it’s too late.
You’re only going to live for a set number of years, and once your time is up you won’t be able to check off your bucket list, accomplish that important goal, or achieve your dreams. So how can you possibly be too busy to get the most important things in life done?
If you’re honest with yourself, you probably have a seemingly endless list of excuses—too busy, too tired, too… But deep down, there is a nagging feeling that something’s wrong, and you know you could be further along in your work than you are now—if only you just did what you knew you needed to do.
The truth is life is complex, there will always be more work to do, and nothing you can do will change that. What you can do is learn a better system for dealing with life’s complexity so you can handle it well.
That means you’ll finally be able to get your most important work done faster and easier than ever before.
Conversations with Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers
Major Dick Winters was one of the right men who was at the right place at the right time in history. Much can be learned from this inspirational leader. I want to learn as much as possible.
Via Amazon:
On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company—the now-legendary Band of Brothers—from the confusion and chaos of the D-Day invasion to the final capture of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest.
Winters was a quiet, reluctant hero whose modesty and strength drew the admiration of not only his men, but millions worldwide. Now comes the story of his last years as witnessed and experienced by his good friend Cole C. Kingseed.
Kingseed shares the formative experiences that made Winters such an effective leader. He addresses Winters’s experiences and leadership during the war, his intense, unbreakable devotion to his men, his search for peace both without and within after the war, and how fame forced him to make adjustments to an international audience of well-wishers and admirers, even as he attempted to leave a lasting legacy before joining his fallen comrades. Following Winters’s death on January 2, 2011, the outpouring of grief and adulation for one of this nation’s preeminent leaders of character, courage, and competence showed just how much of an impact Dick Winters left on the world.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series)
One of the categories necessary to meet the Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge is to read a book in translation. It is a book that Bernadette had picked up. It has been sitting on our shelves for a while. I know that it is a mystery so I am looking forward to reading it.
Via Amazon:
Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larsson’s thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Murder at Maple Springs: A Colin O’Brien Maple Springs Mystery
I picked up Murder at Maple Springs at the Off the Beaten Path Bookstore (now, the Good Neighbor Bookstore) in Lakewood. The author was having a publishing event. Since the book was about the area I was living in, I was curious to what he would share.
Via Amazon:
In reality, Maple Springs is a “beauty spot on Lake Chautauqua” south of Buffalo and just north of the Pennsylvania border. It’s a restful, inviting, summer community bent on offering successful R & R. In fiction, Maple Springs also exists in the same geographical location where summers lakeside are great, people terrific, but author Bob Terreberry has created a community of people who vacation, play and solve mysteries together. In this debut mystery novel, the first of a series, protagonist Colin O’Brien and his wife Vonny have just moved into their retirement home in The Springs when a body is found dead in a neighbor’s lakeside cottage. Things become complicated when the victim’s three step-daughters, from Savannah, GA come north to “protect their interests” when a change in a will is brought to light. Sibling rivalries, jealousy, deceit, death and burglary collide to form a complicated exchange of truths, half-truths and lies. Colin becomes the “deputy in residence” in The Springs and partners with County Sheriff Joe Green and his crime scene team, along with getting help from other community members, to find the murderer and the stolen items and to return Maple Springs to its safe and laid-back fictional reality.
That’s it for this month — I want to hear what good books YOU’VE read lately! Please share in the comments below.
I encourage you to check out these reading lists in case you missed them: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, and October. There was a lot of good reading.
My Reviews for This Reading List
- Book Review: Get It Done: The 21-Day Mind Hack System to Double Your Productivity and Finish What You Start
- Book Review: Murder at Maple Springs: A Colin O’Brien Maple Springs Mystery
- Book Review: Conversations With Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons From the Commander of the Band of Brothers
- Book Review: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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