Monthly Update - November 2013

Another month of reading down! Unfortunately my "to-read" list never seems to get smaller. Maybe I should stop entering giveaways on Goodreads...NAH! I'd rather keep trying to win free books. It's my way of knowing what's coming out and what seems to be trending, too. For awhile it was nothing but zombie books...I really had to keep from that set, because zombies are my guilty pleasure.

At any rate, here's what I'm currently reading:

• Anna Karenina (still...I am enjoying the story, it's just a 700 page novel and that's very daunting. I am making it a priority right now though. I think the other problem is because I have it on my Kindle I don't have a deadline forcing me to finish it like I do with many of the other books I read since I get those from the library.)
• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir & Michèle Fitoussi

What's coming up next:

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
• When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• y1 by Sherrie Cronin (won't be reading this until after Anna Karenina is finished)
• z2 by Sherrie Cronin (won't be reading this until after Anna Karenina is finished)

I realize it looks like a long list, but chances are some of these are going to flow into December's reading list. I actually had to pull from November's reading list for some of the books I read in October (which is a good sign!) Hopefully most of these will be done before the end of November. I'd love to be ahead of schedule!