This month, I wasn't sure if I could start my TBR as I wasn't into the books I chose. So I decided to read at least one book that isn't in it before starting my TBR, and it didn't work. So I then decided to read another one that I really wanted to read, and then I started my TBR. However, I was late as I preferred doing the other way and starting my TBr right away and then finishing the month with other books that I am desperate to read but couldn't put in my TBR. So like that, I'm sure to have finished my mandatory books and don't have any punishment. However, as I said, I started my TBR later than I thought, so I wasn't sure if I would have a penalty or not. And… I don't have one!!!

As I'm in a mood reading mood now, I change a thing for my Olympus TBR for November.

Statistics

I read a total of 2,536 pages in October, which means an average of 84 per day. It also means that I spent 50 hours of the month reading. As a result, this month's average rating is 3.33 out of five stars (there is a missing rating as the book is still in progress.)

To create my TBR for October, I used one of my bonus cards: Change a prompt, but I still have the re-roll the dice one.

Here is the book I read during October with their prompts (if there is one). If you want to read a book's review, you just need to click on the title.

Books

OLYMPUS TBR

The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket (published by HarperAudio)

Rating: 🫖 - - - -

This one is for Olympus, and I needed to read a book from my Before 30s list. I don't know if I will finish this series as I'm not so into it anymore and that I feel like the author wants to create a long series but not for a good reason.

Le Deuxième Sexe I by Simone de Beauvoir (published by Folio Essais)

Rating: None

This is my first draw of Half-God. It's a long time that I wanted to read this book, and it completes three different lists. First, the Olympus TBR, second the Spoopathon as it totally enters for a new genre, and last but not least, I can cross this book from my before 30s list.

Circe by Madeline Miller (published by Bloomsbury)

Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖 -

This one is for Aphrodite and her a trope I like prompt. I also read it for the second prompt of Spoopathon: an autumnal cover; the colours can't be more autumnal than that.

The Looking Glass by Janet McNally (published by HarperTeen)

Rating: 🫖🫖🫖 - -

This is the second Half-God draw, and it was a good thing as I could use the book as the first prompt for the Spoopathon: read a book that was gifted to you; my mother gifted it for my birthday.

The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan (published by Puffin)

(Review available on the 02nd of November)

Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖 -

This was Athena card for a good description.

IN PROGRESS

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (published by Delacorte Press)

(Review available on the 05th of November)

Progress @60% (it will be finished tonight so tha's why there will be no punishment for November)

This book is the answer to Hestia's demand to read a book I had already read. I first read this book in 2017 during my first year in London, and I couldn't put it down.

SPOOPATHON

All Our Hidden Gift by Caroline O'Donoghue (published by Walker Books)

Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖 -

This is the first book I read this month but the last book I used to finish the readathon. I read it at night, so I used it to escape the haunted house.

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordóva (published by Atria Books)

Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖 -

I wanted to read this book so much that I decided to read it before starting my Olympus TBR. It corresponds to the prompt Diverse for the Spoopathon.

This was my October; I discovered that I'm in a mood read mood and that I need to adapt my TBR game to give more space to this mood (at least for the end of the year.) So for November, it will be a chill month as I don't have any readathon, even if I didn't see the Spoopathon pass this month.

And you, which books did you read for this month? Let me know in the comment!

Liz.

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