Get Lost in Literature

 Today's Top Ten Tuesday is a book blog meme hosted by ThatArtsyReaderGirl . Today's topic is  Destination Titles (titles with name of places in them.)  1. Redwall by Brian Jacques 2. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 3. The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty 4. Babel by RF Kuang 5. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse 6. Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey 7. Zodiac Station by Tom Harper 8. Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton 9. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs 10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Have you read any of these? What's your favorite fictional place?

 I'm taking a break from reviewing through the month of November. I want to recharge my batteries a bit. I don't want to fall into a reading slump from overdoing and November is a busy month. I'm participating in NaNoWriMo ( I won't make it anywhere near the winning word count ), Christmas shopping, and of course spending time with my family Thanksgiving week. And that's all on top of my regular schedule of work, making sure my horse is taken care of, and my never ending battle with laundry. But don't worry, I'll be back in December and I'll still be posting for my blog memes ( I think ).

Happy Sunday!  The Sunday Post is a weekly news meme created by  Caffeinated Reviewer . I will be posting on the first Sunday of each month and I hope you'll join me. The weather for the month of October was chilly, colder and damper than I remember of last year's October. Windier too. The leaves dropped off the trees like orange bolts of lightning. I'm wondering if it's a sign of the winter to come. The books I read in October were theme reads because Halloween is my favorite holiday. So today my review list presents a lovely assortment of witches and murderers. Books I reviewed in October were: Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire  (expected pub. date: 3/25/25) The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones The Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell In other news, someone stole my blog layout, and I'm not inspired to change my blog to accommodate the theft. I like the blues, blacks, and grays, I like my banner, I like my choices. I'm not sure what led t