Reading Wrap-Up: November 2022.

 Hello Loves! 

End of the month means talking about every single book I read this month. 

November felt so long...yet I can't quite believe it's done and dusted. 

It felt like an activity filled blur. 

Of doing things. Reading things. 

Finding joys and trying to squeeze in some non-fiction reads for #nonfictionnovember. 

I am happy to report, I read four non-fiction books, two volumes of poetry and a book rooted in a real true crime case. 

A good, solid reading month. 

I read 20 books in total and I am very happy with everything I read. 

:) 

So let's just jump into it and talk books. 

BOOKS OF NOVEMBER 2022: 

1. Cultish by Amanda Motell: I love reading about Cults and everything sinister and off-kilter that goes on in these place. 

Why do people join? 

What makes perfectly normal people willing to give up their free will and follow orders, often to a messy and fatal end? 

I have always liked cults and found them endlessly fascinating. So I started the month with this book that I've wanted to read for a long, long time. 

This book talks more about the language of cults. How language is used to lure people in and then control them and make them feel like they belong. Language is also used to constantly build up a feeling of community and othering people outside of the cult. 

This was so interesting and full of examples of everything from Scientology and MLM schemes and even seemingly benign fitness regimes and gyms. I loved reading about the former members of the cults and how they were controlled and how it took them, in some cases decades to leave. I think the writer did a great job of showing just how convincing cult leaders can be and how the control is exerted overtime and starts small, so even if you think..well this would never happen to me, you honestly, can't be very sure. 

Pick it up if you love cults as much as I do, you will not be disappointed. 

4/5 

2. A Normal Family by Chrysta Bilton: Kept true to nonfiction and picked up this memoir about a woman growing up in a not so normal family...to put it mildly. Reading this made my head spin. 

I did a full review for this one. You can read it here. 

4/5 

3. More Spooky Stories by Tanushree and Ajay Podder: Even if Halloween was gone, it was still the season for scary and spooky tales. I read the first installment of spooky stories earlier in the year and I loved them so much. It was a perfect book to curl up with on a rainy, cold night and be joyfully spooked. So I went into this one, hoping for something similar. 

Hmm...honestly, I left feeling a little underwhelmed. 

It was nice enough. But not brilliant. 

A mixed bag, and the big twist was painfully obvious. 

2.5/5 

4. Between You, Me and the Four Walls by Moni Mohsin: I absolutely adore Mohsin and her Social Butterfly books. LOVE THEM. Social Butterfly is a ditsy socialite from Lahore and she is silly, speaks in ridiculous English and is such a colouful and memorable character. It was so nice to be back in her world and see her people and her world again,  and hear her often wild takes on world events, politics and The Royal Family. Fun, hilarious and such a good time. This time she also talked about some serious things and it this book made me smile, laugh and tear up. 

4/5 

5. Ways of Seeing by John Berger: Another nonfiction pick, and one I wanted to read for a while. This is a book about art, about how we see and perceive the world and how we look at art and what images mean and stand for. There is a lot to understand, dive into and absorb. I enjoyed my time with this book. I have never read something like this before and I want to find more books like this. 

3/5 

6. A Bend in the Ganges by Manohar Malgonkar: A historical fiction that I could not get enough of. This book was sooooo good. It starts of in Punjab, pre-independence and then we see these two young men, both classmates but different in every other way imaginable. It's about them, their ideals, the freedom struggle and two very opposite views on how to fight for freedom. The story also takes us to the dreaded Kalapani prison in the Andamans and I was frankly very on edge and not sure if I was ready to read about the atrocities that were part and parcel of prison life. Thankfully, none of the torture and inhumane treatment is mentioned here in any sort of detail. But we do get a taste of prison life and the cruelties that were meted out to prisoners, some of whom were patriots fighting for independence. 

I adored this book and at a look at what makes a hero and idealism and the shifting of loyalties and fickleness of human beings. 

So good. So glad I found my way to this book. 

5/5 

7. Such a Pretty Girl by T. Greenwood: I went into this book thinking it's  thriller but this one was so much more. There is a little mystery but this is not a thriller at all. 

Set partially in 1977 and 2019, this is a story of child star. A mom and her daughter. A picture found in the wrong hands. An end of innocence and how children are often, far too often sexualised in films and media, I mean what with the damn Balenciaga shit fest that's going on right now! This book makes you stop and think, about family, duty and how often parents impose their dreams and hopes on to their children with disastrous consequences. 

Gut wrenching and moving and wonderful. 

4/5 

8. If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar: A volume of powerful poetry about being a woman, a brown Muslim woman in the West, about loss and grief and some searing ones about Partition. I quite liked them. I have the writer's book sitting on my iPad which I am quite excited to read now. I have a feeling I'll love it. 

3/5 

9. Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry: I love Friends. I LOVE it. I have seen each episode multiple times and I know the dialogues by heart. I am that level obsessed. So I had to read this, plus I love Chandler Bing..sadly though I don't think I quite love Matthew Perry very much. I am going to keep it real: Dude gives a massive asshole vibe. He comes across a little too full of his comic genius and I don't know his tone just rubbed me the wrong way. 

Nope. 

Not good. 

1/5 

10. The Mendicant Prince by Aruna Chakravarti: If you are Bengali, you know all about the lore and legend of the Sanyasi Raja. A Zamindar..well a Prince, falls ill and dies in Darjeeling. Away from him palace and his people. He is quickly cremated, only rumours swirl that he wasn't exactly cremated properly, jackals made away with his remains. Worse still rumours of him being poisoned float around. 

12 years later he comes back.

Is it really him?

What happened to him? 

A long court case goes on and on to prove his identity. The British have their own selfish reasons to deny him his place. His wife and her brother have their own reasons..

For years people have wondered about him and who he really was...When I saw this book, I knew I had to get it and read and I knew I would love it. 

And I did. 

It's so well-written and perfectly researched and I loved it. 

5/5

11. Home Body by Rupi Kaur: Another volume of poetry. I went into this a little apprehensive, I was sorta sure I wouldn't enjoy it, I wasn't exactly a big fan of Kaur's debut. But...this one took me by surprise...in a good way. I read it in one session and really loved it. She talks about things I could relate to, anxiety and not feeling enough and some very heavy things...like abuse and assault and self-harm. 

TWs for pretty much everything. 

I am glad I read it and went in with an open mind. 

4/5 

12. The Silent Woman by Minka Kent: A thriller that I read late one night as palette cleanser and sadly it was nothing to write home about. So obvious and every twist was easy to see coming from a mile off. 

Meh. 

2/5 

13. Secluded Cabin Sleep Six by Lisa Unger: I usually love Lisa Unger's writing and her thrillers keep me on the edge of my seat and very invested. This one sadly felt a little flat. There were tooo many characters and too much going on and the ending was just a little too chaotic and kinda unsatisfying. 

2/5 

14. Amma's Pickle Collection by Debeshi Guptoo: A short collection of stories that I enjoyed over a cup of coffee. Really nicely done and all the stories were good. Read this via Kindle Unlimited. 

4/5 

Then I read some Romance Books via KU too. These were fun and all of them were 3/5 reads. 

15. Undertow by Sam Mariano 

16. Throne of Power by Rina Kent 

17. God of Wrath " 

18. Ghosted by J.H. Darhower 

19. Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez: A YA mystery that I was rolling my eyes at the whole time. 

Like meh and so OTT. Like we've all been in toxic friendships we just didn't go around killing people. Get a damn grip. 

2/5 

20. Everything The Light Touches by Janice Pariat: My last read for November. I am technically still reading this and I have around the last 150 pages left and I will do a proper review once it's over but so far in it's quite lovely. 

We go from present day Shillong, to Calcutta in 1925, to Italy in 1776 and back and forth..

So well written and beautiful. 

 Can't wait to finish it. 

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So that's everything I read in November. 

Nice. 

I am happy with how this month shaped up and I mostly enjoyed everything I read. 

Hope you had a good November too. 

:) 

 

Book Review: The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

Book: The Hotel Nantucket

Author: Elin Hilderbrand 

Pages: 416 

Read on: Kindle 

Read in: ~4 hours 

Plot Summary: After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore — until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier Darling.  

Xavier hires Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton as his general manager, and Lizbet, in turn, pulls together a charismatic, if inexperienced, staff who share the vision of turning the fate of the hotel around. 

They face challenges in getting along with one another (and with the guests), in overcoming the hotel's bad reputation, and in surviving the (mostly) harmless shenanigans of Grace Hadley herself — who won't stop haunting the hotel until her murder is acknowledged.

Things I Liked: 

1. The Hotel Nantucket is a very heartwarming, funny and sweet read. I am glad I picked it out now- when I am in a  mellow end-of-the-year mood- vs. in the summer (when it was all the rage everywhere) because this is the perfect pre-Christmas kinda read too! Full of heart, fun and funny characters and a nice little mystery to boot. 

2. The cast of characters is diverse and nicely fleshed out. Most of them are very likeable or, at the very least, interesting. Lizbet, the General Manager, is my favourite. She has just had her heartbroken and saw the end of a fifteen-year relationship and she is looking at turning this hotel around as part of her moving on plans. Then, we have Edie, a local girl, who has graduated summa cum laude from Cornell in Hotel Management and has huge debts to pay. To make things worse, her ex-boyfriend is blackmailing her for cash. Alessandra, is too slick for her own good. She always says and does the right things and is a major hustler. She is hiding a secret and Lizbet is unsure how to unearth what that is given how clever Alessandra is at covering her tracks. Then there is Magda, the head of Housekeeping, but she drives a custom luxury car to work and is looking to buy expensive beachfront property! How is she able to afford all of that?! 

Then, there is Chad Winslow, an actual rich boy, who insisted on working as a cleaner. Why is he "punishing" himself? What is the mysterious thing he has done over the summer that he is seeking to purge? 

Each of these characters have interesting journeys of their own and you root for all of them! 

3. The resident ghost of the hotel- Grace - is really sweet! She is always up to something fun and is someone you end up rooting for. I loved how Grace went about causing minor "haunting" incidents to give guests some cheap thrills! 

4. The writing is really beautiful and the author brings the island of Nantucket and the hotel really alive. You feel like you are a part of the hotel and watching all these various events play out in front of your eyes. 

5. Overall, like I said, this is a fun, funny and heartwarming read! Perfect for a cozy night in with some hot cocoa and you are all set! 

Rating: 5/5 

 

5 Reasons To Watch Monica O My Darling on Netflix

 

We watched Monica O My Darling last night and we simply had to come over and tell you why you need to absolutely watch it! Here's why: 

1. After a long, long time, a Bollywood movie has hit all the right notes! Monica O My Darling is a neo-noir thriller, a sort of a whodunnit, a comic caper, a massive misadventure saga and all of this with a wild 70s ka tadka! We have the iconic Monica O My Darling song being played in the background during some insane moments of the movie and everything just works so well together! Watch it for the amazing storytelling, the treatment and sheer fun! 

2. The performances were pitch perfect! Every single actor was SO GOOD and perfectly cast! Huma S. Qureshi as the eponymous wily, chalu, grifter/ hustler Monica was perfection! Her dialogue delivery, body language and just everything was perfection. Rajkumar Rao, as always, was insanely good! Radhika Apte in a sort of comic role was also very good. Sikander Kher was hilarious! Every single cast member was so, so, so good! 

3. The characters were all super sketchy and that's what made the movie work! You'll perhaps wonder who to root for cos sabke sab tedhe hain.. but you can't stop rooting for several of them and hoping that they get away with it somehow! Hat-tip to Sriram Raghavan multiverse and various actors from movies past and Easter Eggs that were present all through the movie! 

4. Vasan Bala, as a director, is phenomenal. We watched and loved his Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota and even that was a very different and interesting movie! In this movie, he has given us a total kook-fest meets a full stylised murder mystery which is so engrossing and fun!

5. There is not a dull moment in this movie. The narrative moves at breakneck pace, the dialogues are on fire and just everything just works so well together! This is a movie that you will fully enjoy! Watch it for the fun of watching a good movie! There are also some nice little red herrings and twists, which I am sure, crime thriller lovers will enjoy. So, Monica O My Darling is the perfect package, really! 

Friday Favourites: Stationery + Coffee + Light + Reading + Home.

 Hello Loves! 

How is Friday treating you? 

I had a pretty good day, I slept for most of it. I just passed out and it was just what I needed. 

So the plan for rest of my day is to cook something nice for dinner, start on a fun new book and watch something fun. I have been on such a movie kick really. I think I am slightly over TV shows and series. I want something I can watch in one go and be done with it. 

So I've been watching films old and new and it's nice. 

It's been a while since I did a Friday Faves that was just random things and loves. 

So we'll do just that today. 

Here some thing random faves from life lately. 

Some colourful new stationery items I got in the mail earlier this week. Very bright and happy and just the kind of little things I love. 

Pens. Erasers. A stapler and just oddles of cutesy. 

I got this pen pouch full of goodies from a shop on Instagram called The Magic Trunk. The pens and highlighters are really nice and I've already started using them. 

After months of going without buying books, I have gotten back to my book buying with a little bit of a vengeance. I have no regrets. Most of the books you see here are used books, so I feel a little less guilty. God, I can't wait to be rich enough that I never feel any guilt while buying books. 

Someday. 

Book haul coming soon. 

November sunshine. 

I love the light we get this time of the year. After months of rain and grey skies, and as much as I love the rains, it's nice to have days of sunshine and light and joy. 

A little corner of home, this is a makeshift side table, it holds my new books and some plushies and my current read. It's right next to my big comfy chair where I can be found when I am in the living room. 

It's my little happy place. 

Here you can see some little frens. A yellow star. A purple turtle that I've had for ages. A camel from Chumbak. 

And my book covered in a book cover from Handivity and some reading companions- a pencil and a Mildliner highlighter. 

A cup of coffee, my journal, some random list making and my bag planner/journal bag. 

Little faves. 

The mug is from Alicia Souza and a quite old. 

Journal is from Anokhi.

The red blockprint bag is from iTokri. 

My reading life has been so good too. 

I've read such amazing books so far in the month. 

I also love making little reading decisions this time of year...do I read something now or save it for next year? For instance, The Eight Life is getting saved for next year. 

Silly but this makes me happy. Little planning and sorting books for now or later. 

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I hope this weekend is just wonderful for you. 

I hope to read something fun. Start on a new non-fiction book, maybe Matthew Perry's memoir. And read a fiction title that makes me smile. I just got the new Social Butterfly in the mail today, I love these books by Moni Mohsin and I am ready to jump into the new book. 

General Whimsy: Coffee Moments.

 Life Happens and Coffee Helps. 

A lot. 

Coffee is my Sacha Pyaar (True Love). 

:) 

Love this yellow sunshine mug and this fluffy little cloud. 

This is a newest addition to my Mug Collection it's from Nilay Studio and I love it. 

I also adore this whole frame. 

Coffee and some gorgeous, gorgeous art. 

Front and center is this stunning portrait from Joyeeta that was a very, very kind birthday gift from her back in 2020. 

I love this lady so much. She reminds me of my Thamma. 

Coffee and Books, a match made in heaven and my most cherished morning rituals. 

Coffee with a side of books. Including some new book mail, the new Janice Pariat which is a chunky little gorgeous book that I can't wait to read soon..I might start it today itself. 

Sitting pretty and slightly precariously. 

Iced-coffee forever. I am not a fan of hot coffee. I only have hot coffee if it's properly cold and it's never really properly cold in Mumbai, so it lends itself perfectly to my iced-coffee habit. 

A corner of home and giant kitty mug. 

This one is from Chumbak. And an old favourite. 

Book Haul: Diwali Book Haul 2022.

 Hello Loves! 

My way of celebrating any kind of festival is by doing the thing I love best ~ buying books. 

This Diwali I bought myself six books to celebrate. 

:) 

So let's do a little book haul shall we? 

Yes, we shall. 

A Bengali classic. Taranath Tantrik is someone I've heard of and even seen a TV show based on. This collection was on my radar since it came out earlier this year. Seven stories about black magic, ghosts, ghouls and demons. This was my read this Diwali and it was fun. 

Something light and easy, breezy. Might save this for December or January, I have heard such good things about this book and I hope it lives up to the hype. 

This one sounds like it's just up my alley. Indian families and their million and one issues. Can't wait to read it soon. 

A chunky little book I cannot wait to read. 

I have had this on my wishlist for a while and I am so happy I finally got it. 

A fable from one of my favourite writers ever. 

Short, yet sharp and necessary and wonderful. 

A book of Indian Ghosts and this was a perfect Halloween read and was sooo sooooo good. 

Loved it. 

BOOKS BOUGHT: 

Taranath Tantrik and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Bhibhutibhushan, Translated by Devalina Mookerjee 

Writers and Lovers by Lily King 

The Blind Matriarch by Namita Gokhale 

The Eight Life by Nino Haratischvili

The Living Mountain by Amitav Ghosh 

The Book of Indian Ghosts by Riksunder Banerjee 

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Happy Reading Loves. 

Book Review: Normal Family by Chrysta Bilton (Non-Fiction November Recommendations).

 

Book: Normal Family 

Author: Chrysta Bilton 

Publisher: Little Brown & Co. 

Pages: 336  

Read On: iPad 

How Long it Took Me To Read: 3 days 

Plot Summary: For most of her life, Chrysta Bilton was one member of a small, if dysfunctional, family of four. There was her sister, Kaitlyn, her hedonistic, glamorous, gay mum Debra, and Jeffrey, who Debra hand-picked, in an LA hairdressers, to be the father of her children. During Chrysta's unstable childhood, Debra struggled to keep the family afloat and Jeffrey wandered in and out of their lives.

Then, in her twenties, Chrysta discovered that her father had secretly donated his sperm over 500 times - and that she had at least 35 other siblings.

A Normal Family is a captivating coming-of-age memoir about Chrysta's reckoning with the secrets both parents had carefully kept from her. Heartfelt, warm and funny, it's a story of embracing the family we have, in all the forms we find it.

Review: What is a normal family? What constitutes a picture perfect normal family? A Dad, a Mom and 2.5 Kids, maybe a dog or two. Regular, ordinary..just Normal. 

Honestly, if you ask me there is no such thing as a Normal Family. Some families do a bang up job of looking like a normal family but behind closed doors, things are anything but normal. Normal is such a narrow social construct. 

Yet, most of us want some version of this normal. We work so hard to find our own edition of a good old normal family. Someone of us find a version we make our peace with, others fake it and some spend their whole life chasing this ever elusive thing. 

I love any book about families, the messier the better. I love reading about dysfunction families, fiction or non-fiction. But when it comes to non-fiction, I can't resist reading about someone's family dynamics or situation that is markedly different from the one I grew up in and know. There is something almost nosy about how much I want to immerse myself in some other home and see how other people lived. What other people grew up with and had to overcome and survive. 

This book had me from the get go: on the face of it, it seemed like a book about a woman meeting her numerous half-siblings, a result of a sperm donor father. And partly, in a very small part actually, it was about that. But for most part (and this just made the book for me), this was a book about growing up in a family that was anything but normal. 

Chrysta was born to a lesbian mother in the 1980s, her father, who was in her life, off and on, was a sperm donor and a sort of friend of her mothers. The book starts from right before Chrysta's birth and through her life and her not-so-normal and often chaotic and messy upbringing. We see her childhood and her equations with her mother and her mother's various partners. We see her live a life most of us can't quite imagine. There isn't abuse, not in the strictest sense. But there is a whole lot of negligence and kids left to fend for themselves and a mother spending years addicted and out of control. 

I loved this book. 

So much. 

It had me hooked and invested and very curious to keep reading. 

I loved that though written by a grown-up, when talking about her childhood, especially her early childhood, it feels like you are reading from a kid's perspective. We see her believe things and not see things for what they are. The innocence and naivete of a child are intact and that adds so much to the book. It doesn't take you away from the moment. You feel everything eight year old Chrysta sees and feels. You are right there with her as she moves from one home to another. You feel like thirteen year old girl being bullied and under-confident and living in a less than perfect home. There is such honesty and vulnerability in this book and this voice. Just so so good. 

I also love that the writer didn't try to sugarcoat her mother's flaws, these flaws make her human. She is a person who is at the end of the day trying to do the best she can. She loves her kids, she's pretty much willed them into existence and wants what's best for them, yet she makes mistake after mistake and harms them and herself. The mom, Debra isn't a perfect mom, she is human, painfully human and maybe all of us would be better off if we saw our parents as people and not their infallible idols. 

The Dad- Jeffery, oh man! He broke my heart a little bit, annoyed me and just...he is such a unique person who makes several not-so-great choices. I loved bits in which we see him and learn about his life. I can't  imagine living a life he did, rough, mental illness, on the streets, addicted and generally not easy. I also cannot picture a life where my Dad wasn't present and looking after me and my needs and making me feel safe and protected. But I know so many have a complete opposite experience. Jeffery isn't perfect...not by a long shot and he isn't always kind, he is complicated and messy and very, very messed up. 

Then there is the fact that Jeffery donated his sperm on a regular basis and has God only knows how many children. Later in life, when Chrysta is in her early 20s, she finds out about her many new siblings and how with time she goes about making peace with this new challenge. It is a unique position to be in, walking around in a world not knowing if the person next to you on the plane/coffee shop/grocery store could be related to you. 

This book was such a good look into a family that changes, shifts, is often unstable, crowded, sparse and might seem bonkers but there is love and good intentions and growing up and learning and living. 

So good. 

Seriously, I cannot recommend it enough. 

Pick it up. 

Rating: 4/5 

TWs: Substance Abuse, Bullying, Eating Disorders, Mental Illness and Sexual Abuse. 

Monday Moods: The Mellow Days of November.

 Hello Loves and I hope this is a happy Monday in your life. 

:) 

Life, so far in November has been good. 

Quiet. Cozy. And full of good books. 

Lots of good reading. 

I've already read two non-fiction books and I am already thinking of what non-fiction title I want to pick up next. 

Might start something new today. 

Hope your days in these post-festive weeks has been good too. 

:) 

Here are some snippets from my life lately that's made me very happy. 

My favourite corner of home. 

My books and more books. 

This week I finally got to cleaning and dusting and sorta re-organising this corner full of my books. I cleaned and moved books around and kept books I hope to read soon in the front, so I don't forget about them. 

This was done mainly because I hadn't done this since February of 2020 and also because I got some 12 new books in the mail this week, so I kinda had to made room for my new babies. 

:) 

As exhausting as this endevour usually is, it's also something that bring me so much joy. 

Like a lot of joy. 

I still need to deep clean this area and do a fullll move around but with my hand (it still hurts) I can't take on this project on any time soon. 

But hopefully in a month or two I'll change things up again. 

A Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake which is a little treat and a thing of joy. 

Early morning light and my makeshift side table with some plushie friends and my book. 

I love how the light hits our living room in the winter months. 

The mornings look so lovely, all light and lovely. 

It hits my books and I honestly can't stop staring and clicking a ton of pictures. 

Winter sunshine. 

I am hoping we'll have a good winter in Mumbai this year. 

The nights are already cooling down. 

I can't wait for colder days and hot cocoa before bed. 

A cup of coffee, my book and my little set-up. 

My little daily rituals and joy. 

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Hope this is a good week for you and me. 

Hello November 2022 + Current Reads + Goals for the Month.

 

Hello November! 

Hello Fall! 

Hello Scorpio Season! 

Hello Sister's Birthday Month! 

:) 

I am happy you are here November. 

I started my month with doing the things I usually do on the first day of the month. 

I set up my Bujo pages, did up my journal and even set up my Book Journal for the month. 

A very stationery heavy morning and the kind of thing I love. 

November Page in my Bujo. 

Added some autumnal colours and a little doggo in a sweater! 

Too cute. 

Of course I did a little bit of reading. 

I am still reading my Halloween Read but I also started on a new book in honour of Non-Fiction November. 

I adore this little Niffler dude on my bookmark. He's most cute. 

The Book of Indian Ghosts by Riksunder Banerjee: I started reading this for Halloween and I am still reading this and loving this deep dive into all kinds of ghosts found in India. Such a good read. 

Cultish by Amanda Montell: My first read for Non-Fiction November is a book that is right up my alley. A book about Cults and especially about the language of Cults and how they are formed and exert the kind of total control they have over their members. It's fascinating and I am really excited to keep reading. 

GOALS FOR NOVEMBER: 

1. Read some good books. 

2. Read a classic through the month. (I still need to decide which one).

3. Read a few non-fiction books. 

4. Celebrate my sister's birthday month properly and happily all month long. 

5. Do something special for my sister mister. 

6. Clean and re-organise my bookshelves...I haven't done this for two years and it's longggg overdue. 

7. Blog more regularly...I have been slacking on blogging lately, I want to get back on track. 

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I hope November is good for you and me. 

Have a wonderful month ahead Behens!