October 2021: What are you reading?

What 1001 books are you reading as we start the final quarter of the year?

For such a short book, In the Heart of the Country it taking forever to read. I also need to get back to Contact and begin Memento Mori.

As usual I'm late with the group read and enjoying Promise at Dawn right now.

I'm finishing up Midaq Alley from last month and then will start on Memento Mori.

I started The Goldfinch for the October challenge but I disliked the first 60 pages so intensely that I abandoned it at a B&B where I was staying. Have never done that before! Now I'm reading a volume of short stories by Simon Carmiggelt from the Dutch list, a translation of his Kroeglopen. Chosen because it promised that its author was a humorist.

I am currently reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood for the monthly challenge.

I will attempt to finish Vol 3 of Pilgrimage, which includes Books 6, 7, and 8, this month. I'd like to complete the last volume (Books 9 - 13) by the end of the year.

I might also go for Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin to coincide with Halloween.