Busy, Busy October

I jumped into Nonfiction November early, reading The Body by Bill Bryson last week and Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh, The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohlleben, and The Village Effect: Why Face-to-Face Contact is Good for Our Health, Happiness, Learning, and Longevity by Susan Pinker this week. 

I've also been busy reading and reviewing Cybils picture books. Here are the books I've read and reviewed in October:

title	author
Sea Glass Summer	Houts, Michelle*
The Forever Sky	Peacock, Thomas
Bird Count	Richmond, Susan Edwards
The Great Indoors	Falatko, Julie*
Diana Dances	Lozano, Luciano
There's Only One You	Heling, Kathryn
Aunt Pearl	Kulling, Monica*
The Book of Delights: Essays	Gay, Ross
A Boy Like You	Murphy, Frank
Big and Little: A Story of Opposites	Pilgrim, Cheryl*
Badger's Perfect Garden	Arnold, Marsha Diane*
Lawrence in the Fall	Farina, Matthew
Linus The Little Yellow Pencil	Magoon, Scott*
Birdsong	Flett, Julie
The Girl and the Wolf	Vermette, Katherena
How to Read a Book	Alexander, Kwame
What Is Given from the Heart	McKissack, Patricia C.
Small in the City	Smith, Sydney
Sweety	Zuill, Andrea
Bruce's Big Storm	Higgins, Ryan T.*
Camp Tiger	Choi, Susan
Ogilvy	Underwood, Deborah*
A Kite for Moon	Yolen, Jane*
Ten Rules of the Birthday Wish	Ferry, Beth
Duckworth, the Difficult Child	Sussman, Michael B.*
Not Quite Snow White	Franklin, Ashley*
Max Attacks	Appelt, Kathi*
The Scarecrow	Ferry, Beth
The King of Kindergarten	Barnes, Derrick
The Moon's First Friends: How the Moon Met the Astronauts from Apollo 11	Hill, Susanna Leonard*
Dandy	Dyckman, Ame*
Bear Came Along	Morris, Richard T.
Once Upon a Goat	Richards, Dan*
Rocket Says Look Up!	Bryon, Nathan
Just Read!	Degman, Lori*
My Name Is Wakawakaloch!	Stiefel, Chana*
Zombies Don't Eat Veggies!	Lacera, Jorge
The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral	Lucianovic, Stephanie V.W.*
This Beach Is Loud!	Cotterill, Samantha
Babymoon	Barrett, Hayley*
The Pigeon Has to Go to School	Willems, Mo
Say Something	Reynolds, Peter H.
Little Tiger	Abery, Julie
The Undefeated	Alexander, Kwame
When You Are Brave	Miller, Pat Zietlow*
When Sadness Is at Your Door	Eland, Eva
A Stone Sat Still	Wenzel, Brendan
Give Me Back My Bones!	Norman, Kim*
The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh	Kelkar, Supriya*
Cece Loves Science and Adventure(Cece Loves Science, #2)	Derting, Kimberly*
Baby Loves Green Energy!	Spiro, Ruth*
Because	Willems, Mo
Hair Love	Cherry, Matthew A.
Papa Put a Man on the Moon	Dempsey, Kristy*
Peek-A-Bruce	Higgins, Ryan T.*
Future Astronaut	Alexander, Lori*
The Good Egg	John, Jory
The Whole Wide World and Me	Yuly, Toni
Music for Mister Moon	Stead, Philip C.
Sulwe	Nyong’o, Lupita

 I'm reading How Your Story Sets You Free, The Art of Noticing, and Writing Down the Bones.

October is always my most bookish month, with the Cybils, Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon, and the Texas Book Festival. This year, the readathon was the same day as the book festival, so that was a bit of a challenge, but it all worked out just fine.

My Texas Book Festival post will go live a week from Wednesday here.

My Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon post is here.

I have found all the books I could find (over one hundred) at the library for the Cybils, and now I'm waiting for publishers to send copies of those I couldn't.

I'll be posting about hearing author and journalist Ta-nehesi Coates speak in Houston on Wednesday here.

We had a wonderful time at my granddaughter Annie's fourth birthday party in Kemah. Her Aunt Susie and I took a selfie with Annie when we rode the train, and my daughter-in-law snapped this picture of me on the merry-go-round. So much fun.

What was your week like?

Did you read any good books? Tell us about them.

What other bookish things did you do? 

What else is going on in your life?

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