October 2019 Monthly Wrap-Up

Hello! Another month is gone, and it’s already NaNoWriMo! I’ll be busy writing my next novel (hopefully) this month, but this is what I did in October.

Books Read

I read fourteen books this month. One of them was a reread, and another one was a short story (but Goodreads counts them as “books”). There was a lot of Octoberage going on here, coincidentally. There were two graphic novels on my list last month.

• Rebel – Marie Lu
• The End and Other Beginnings – Veronica Roth
• War Girls – Tochi Onyebuchi
• “Ark” – Veronica Roth
• Batman Graphic Novel – Marie Lu
• The Beautiful – Renée Ahdieh
• Pumpkinheads – Rainbow Rowell
• Across a Broken Shore – Amy Trueblood
• Song of the Crimson Flower – Julie C. Dao
• Every Stolen Breath – Kimberly Gabriel
• Color Outside the Lines – various
• Always Forever Maybe – Anica Mrose Rissi
• City of Lost Souls – Cassandra Clare (reread)

It was a very good month because both I had two new stories to read by BOTH of my auto-buy authors! Every Stolen Breath contributed Illinois to my Read Around the US challenge, and The Beautiful gave me historical Louisiana.

Blog Stats:

Twitter follows are flat as are blog visits.

Writing:

In October I started getting ready for NaNoWriMo. I have a great character to write about and I’m excited! I also wrote a short story for Wattpad’s Looking for Alaska Contest, called “Mist Off a Morning Lake”, which you can read if you’d like.

Life:

I’ve been driving a rental car around for the last few weeks because my husband got rear-ended in October and our car was totaled. We got a new (to us, at least) car. I hate going to car dealerships. It’s kind of annoying. Even though we went to the dealership with financing already lined up through our bank, they make us fill out a credit app. ::roll eyes:: It also takes for freakin’ ever to buy a car. But that’s over with.

No more hospital trips, although one of my family members was allergic to some medication given and it kept this person in bed for a week, until we figured out what was causing it. Hoping this new medicine works out better.

It also snowed this month. School was cancelled two or three days already for the season. I still teach school on snow days though. I told my boy that as soon as we get through the books he’s done for the school year. He’s still on track. I’m sure he’s looking for fall break the last week of November. Our homeschool coop ends in three weeks (yay) and then it’ll be a little more relaxed for a couple months.

So that was October. How was your month? Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? If so, good luck!