Only two months left!

We've officially made it to Holiday Season™, and I am still so behind! I did chip away at my list of books still waiting from previous challenges and finish Worst-Case Scenario and Does My Body Offend You, and I'm VERY close to being done with Free Verse Society as well. Progress, but dubious progress, particularly since two of those books were for challenges I'd already completed. Still, dubious or not, progress is still progress. I'm also going to take Daughters of Nri off my list because I cannot find it ANYWHERE, so...bummer, but it is what it is.

Anyway, that leaves me basically breaking even, as far as how many books are on my "I'm so behind, I need to read these" list, because I'm taking four off and then adding the four from October that I never had a chance to get to! Yaaaaaay for equilibrium! 

Updated list of books I still need to read:

• Algorithms of Oppression (August Challenge #18 - maybe shaming myself by reminding myself how long it's taking me to get to some of these will serve as motivation?)
• The Heirs (September Challenge #23
• Deaf Utopia (October Challenge #11)
• On the Bright Side (October Challenge #11)
• Under the Banner of Heaven (October Challenge #17)
• Going Clear (October Challenge#17)

Any now, my November challenges, which I will totally, FOR SURE get to, and which I definitely had books picked out for before today! This month's challenges are #10, read a book recently adapted for film, TV, or musical (which would be way easier if I kept up better with current film, TV, and musicals) and #22, read a nonviolent true crime book (which almost seems like saying "drink a glass of water that isn't wet" but what do I know). 

A couple of my friends really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, so I chose that for one of my #10 books, and for the other I chose Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, which technically doesn't come out until next year, I think, but...I don't care. I think they'll both end up being books I enjoy.

True Crime isn't really my genre, but I sifted through my TBR list of nearly 900 books and found six options. Of those six, five were about violent crimes (shocker), so that made my first choice of books for this challenge easy: Pandemic, Inc by J. David McSwane, about people who committed fraud during the heigh of COVID lockdown in 2020/2021. Fortunately, a topic I'm very interested in, so I'm looking forward to reading this one! The other book I chose is a middle grade nonfiction that was one of our state book award nominees last year, The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day. I always meant to read it while my students were and just never found the time, so I'm looking forward to reading it now! And by "now" I mean...at some point in the next two months, hopefully.