October 2026 Monthly Wrap-Up

The weather started to warm up here in October, and as well as being busy at work, I even (for the first time in a long time) got around to attending some football matches. Nevertheless, I still managed to fit in some reading and reviewing, with a nice mix of review copies and interesting books from my shelves. Towards the second half of the month, I was starting to clear the decks, so to speak, knowing what was rapidly approaching… …but we’ll talk about that later. First, the stats ***** Total Books Read: 8 Year-to-Date: 97 New: 8 Rereads: 0 From the Shelves: 4 Review Copies: 1 From the Library: 3 Novels: 4 Novellas: 4 Short Stories: 0 Non-Fiction: 0 Non-English Language: 6 (3 Japanese, 2 German, Mandarin) In Original Language: 2 (2 German) The Tale of Genji – Chapter by Chapter 32 – Umegae 33 – Fuji no uraba ***** Books Reviewed in October were: 1) the long cloud by Hector MacKenzie 2) The Colour of Time, or the Incredible Story of Mary Gallagher by Eric Dupont 3) The Crab Cannery…