Monthly Archives: October 2025

Books to Read- October 2025

  • Man with No Name – Laird Barron
  • Inside Jobs – Ben H Winters
  • The Girl with Ghost Eyes – M H Boroson
  • The Sense of Wonder – Rachel Carson
  • Hard Magic – Larry Correla
  • The Weight of Glory – CS Lewis
  • Twelve Slays of Christmas – Jacqueline Frost
  • Roughing It – Mark Twain
  • What I Talk About when I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
  • Black Dahlia Avenger – Steve Hodel

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Quote of the Week – October 31, 2025

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Henry David Thoreau

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Books Read – September & October 2025

Fiction

Pride in Prejudice– Jane Austen

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Furthest Station – Ben Aaronovitch

Wolf in the Fold – Simon R Green

Sport for the Baron – John Creasey

The Last Days of New Paris – China Mieville

The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch

What Abigail Did That Summer – Ben Aaronovitch

Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher

The Specialists – Lawrence Block 

Forces From Beyond – Simon R Green

Design for Great-Day – Alan Dean Foster & Eric Frank Russel

Alchemy of Secrets – Stephanie Garber

The Penelapiod – Margaret Atwood

Hekate– Nikita Gill

Short Stories

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century – Kim Fu

Graphic Novels

Nimona – Noelle Stevenson

Rivers of London – Bodywork – Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel

Non- Fiction

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

Messy – Tim Harford


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#HRCYED Favorite HRCYED 1.0 Prompt

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Favorite Prompt from HRCYED 1.0: Garage Sale : (Note: I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • Diablo Mesa – Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  • Killed at the Whim of a Hat – Colin Cotterill
  • The Serpent of Venice – Christopher Moore

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Sunday Night Music- Black No. 1

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Quote of the Week – October 24, 2025

Don’t mistake, politeness for lack of strength.
Sonia Sotomayor

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No Kings, No Thrones, No Crowns

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 #HRCYED BIPOC

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED BIPOC prompt. (Note: I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor
  • Anything Goes – John Barrowman
  • Tangleroot Palace – Marjorie Liu
  • The Teller of Small Fortunes – Jule Leong
  • Parable of the Sower – Octavia E Butler
  • Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
  • Kaikeyi – Vaishnavi Patel
  • The Fox Wife – Yangze Choo

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Sunday Night Music- Cri Du Coeur

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Quote of the Week – October 17, 2025

There are some Enterprises in Which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Herman Melville

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