October is also known as the birthday month for us as it isn’t just my birthday that is then but also of family and friends. But this October was a hard month for a variety of reasons.
The Numbers
In October I read a total of 12 books which makes the total of 2022 108 books read.
Of the 12 books 9 books were fantasy, 1 book was sci-fi, 1 book was contemporary and 1 book was historical .
Out of the 31 days of October I read 13 days which amounted to a total of 3145 pages.
The rating average of this month was 3,75.
- Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood | 4 stars
- The Alchemy of Sorrow. Edited Sarah Chorn and Virginia McClain | 4 stars | ARC
- Daugther of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King 1) by Tricia Levenseller | 2 stars | ARC
- When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Singing Hills Cycle 2) by Nghi Vo | 4 Stars | Novella
- Into the Riverlands (Singing Hills 3) by Nghi Vo | 4 stars | Novella | ARC
- The Case of the Disappearing Beaune by J. Lawrence Matthews | 3 stars | ARC
- Archangels Resurrection (Guild Hunter 15) by Nalini Singh | 4 stars | ARC
- Monstress Volume 6 by Sana Takeda and Marjorie M. Liu | 5 stars
- Black Water Sister by Zen Cho | 4 stars
- The Society for Soulless Girls by Lauren Steven | 4 stars
- Cowboy Bebop: Supernova Swing by Dan Watters | 3 stars
- The Language of Ghosts by Heather Fawcett | 4 stars
⌘ October was a bit of an off month. I had to cancel the celebration of my birthday because someone caught covid and since my dad was going to be here, I could not be near anyone who might have been near that person. My dad really can’t be exposed to covid. Nobody else caught it though luckily. But I was turning 35 and I wanted to celebrate with a dinner. We had done all the groceries already. It felt like such a shit show. I did not really move the celebration to another day. Husband didn’t hang any flags for me either so I didn’t feel very happy birtday girl, lol.
⌘ On the up however I won the author pick in Intisar Khanani’s fanart competition so that was great.
⌘ There was a fall vacation for Merijn. The week after that Merijn was sick for 6 days. Poor boy. He is still so tired from it.
⌘ And on the last day of October an eye infection started that is still going on.
Announcements and the Like
⌘ What Am I Reading During #SpooktasticReads
⌘ #SciFiMonth 2022 Participation Intent
Wrap Ups and Other Memes
⌘ Dancing out of September 2022
⌘ Show Your Bujo Theme | October 2022
⌘ The End of the 35 Books Before 35 Challenge
⌘ 40 Before 40 | 5 Year Reading Challenge
⌘ Instagram Photo Challenge #SpooktasticReads Edition | Round-Up
Reviews
⌘ Archangel’s Resurrection (Guild Hunter 15) by Nalini Singh | ARC
⌘ Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller | ARC
⌘ Into the Riverlands (Singing Hills Cycle 3) by Nghi Vo | ARC
⌘ The Alchemy of Sorrow| ARC
⌘ Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
Top Ten Tuesday
⌘ Five Dutch Bookstores I’d Love to Visit
⌘ Five Words That Give Me Feels
⌘ Picking Out a Few Urban Legends
Discussions, Topics and the Like
⌘ Book Haul 74 | So Extremely Lucky
⌘ All the Creepy in a Wonderful Bite-Size | #SpooktasticReads
⌘ 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 | #SpooktasticReads Edition
⌘ La Brea | Season 1 | Ep 1-10 | Complete
⌘ The 13 Ghosts of Scooby- Doo | Ep 1-6
⌘ War of the Worlds | Season 3 | Ep 1-2
⌘ 100% Wolf | Movie
⌘ Star Trek: Generations | Movie
⌘ Star Trek: First Contact | Movie
⌘ Star Trek: Insurrection | Movie
⌘ Star Trek: Nemesis | Movie
Blogs
⌘ Tammy from Books Bones and Buffy shared 20 horror books to read in 2023.
⌘ Sara from Sara’s Reading Nook shared her favorite Portugese Words for Top Ten Tuesday.
⌘ Ari from The Book Nook posted a roundup of SpooktasticReads.
This monthly wrap up will be linked up with the monthly one by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction. This so we can blog hop to each others wrap ups easier.
A Dance With Books 
I’m so sorry your birthday celebrations didn’t go as planned!!! I can’t do much to cheer you up about that from my seat on the couch (lol), but nonetheless I wish you some virtual belated birthday cheer. Hopefully you can get together with friends and family sometime soon as a pseudo birthday celebration. ❤
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Thanks for linking my post😁 Sorry to hear your birthday celebration was canceled 😥 I hope you are able to celebrate another time.
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Aw im sorry for your birthday.. same thing happened to us with my bestfriend’s baby shower. All was fine when she organised it, and then as it got here the case & many near her got covid so we didnt wanted to risk it with her pregnancy.
Wishing you a nice November xx
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It sounds like October was a very mixed month for you. The reading and watching look good, but the life stuff sounds a lot rougher. I’m sorry you didn’t get a proper birthday celebration. I hope the eye infection clears up soon!
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