November AlphaKIT: N and Y

November AlphaKIT letters are :

and

Please remember to update the wiki here: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/2016_Unofficial_AlphaKIT#November

A reasonable number of N's, but only two Y's: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, which I will probably read at the end of the month for my bookclub meeting on the first Saturday in December, and The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs.

Ok, a few options for me:

You Might Be From Saskatchewan If... (hmmm, touchstone isn't working. Have to go back and find instructions on how to make it work!)
Your Water Footprint / Stephen Leahy

3,096 Days / Natascha Kampusch
Shotgun Lovesongs / Nickolas Butler

With that giant NY jumping out at me I can't help wanting to look for something with New York in the title!

The Y is the hardest letter for me every year for some reason. Luckily I do have one lined up Designing Your Life. Planning on reading Gaudy Night for N.

I am planning on reading The Price of Guilt by Margaret Yorke and Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo.

I'm planning on reading Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi for my 'N' read and To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young for my 'Y' read. There may be more, but we'll see how the month goes!

I'm hoping to get these read in November.

Boar Island by Nevada Barr
Deadly Notions
Knit Fast, die Young
League of Dragons by Naomi Novak
Night of the Living Thread
You Better Knot Die

Finished Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers which was quite good.

I've just added my "Y" read to the November Wiki, The Price of Guilt by Margaret Yorke.

I have finished Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo.

Ended up reading All You Need is Fudge which was a fun light mystery.

Starting The Taexali Game by Nancy Jardine

Just finished To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.

Started Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague deCamp.

Starting "Nerds Who Kill" by Mark Richard Zubro

Finished Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi as my 'N' book. Full review written.

You Might Be From Saskatchewan If... Volume 2 / Carson Demmans, Jason Sylvestre.
http://www.librarything.com/work/16984377/details/124730802
2.5 stars

This is a book of comics that probably should have been funny for someone who grew up in Saskatchewan, but I didn’t laugh. A few of them made me smile, but that was about it. It was ok, but not as good as I had hoped.

A Walking Tour of the Shambles / Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe
2 stars

This is a walking tour of a fictional area in Chicago. Unfortunately, I just found it boring. There were a few nice illustrations. Was it meant to be funny? I’m not sure. I just didn’t find it interesting at all.

Starting I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

I hit both letters with Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng but the story was full of despair, racism, and misery. Only two stars from me.

I listened to the audiobook of The Young World -- it wasn't for me 2*.

Finished To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young--full review written, but I'm afraid I can't recommend this one.

COMPLETED I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

>18 LibraryCin: if you're not "in" on the jokes, they just aren't as funny.

Some years ago I read a book of cartoons about Rhode Island, and some I understood, and laughed, but others were a mystery.

>25 fuzzi: True. I sort of got why they might be funny to some people, but I guess I've been away long enough (both from the province and from small town/rural life, which is what many of the jokes seemed to be related to)... But then, I still think I (at least somewhat) felt differently about things when I lived there. But maybe I'm just not remembering.

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
To Say N of the Dog by Connie Willis

>27 Kristelh: Oh, I read To Say Nothing of the Dog this month too! I didn't think about it as an N book -- I'll have to add that to my list. :)

We're down to the last 24 hours, and I still have not found a book that meets this challenge...or have I?

I've chosen to start Moon of Three Rings by Andre Norton tonight...

One book under N:
The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed, by Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau.

I only got two done off of my list - my reading has completely been falling apart lately. :-(

>31 cyderry: it's okay, I didn't do any in November.

However, my current read, the one I hoped would be finished and count for November's AlphaKIT, will also fit December's AlphaKIT!

:)

I have finally finished Nostromo which sadly was my least favorite book by Conrad so far! Oh well.

Finished Angel With Two Faces by Nicola Upson. Really enjoyed it.