{"id":11985,"date":"2014-12-02T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11985"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:48:54","slug":"the-books-of-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11985","title":{"rendered":"The Books of November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now&#8230;. the books of November!<\/p>\n<p>Again, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith&#8217;s reading of Ben Aaronovitch&#8217;s Rivers of London series was again spot-on perfect, with <em>Whispers Under Ground<\/em>. I adore listening to this series so very much.<\/p>\n<p>Also very good was Henning Mankell&#8217;s <em>The Troubled Man<\/em>, the 10th Kurt Wallander book. Be aware this is as much about Kurt Wallander as it is a mystery, but those parts are what were so very good.<\/p>\n<p>I also really like Tracy Grant&#8217;s Charles &amp; Melanie Frasier series, which is also the Malcom &amp; Suzanne Rannoch series (I believe it had to do with publishers), and the books are not written\/published in chronological order. But they are chock full of intrigue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4950\">The Troubled Man<\/a><\/em> (2009\/2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Mankell_Henning.php\">Henning Mankell<\/a> translated by Laurie Thompson (9\/10)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4925\">Outrage<\/a><\/em> (2008\/2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Indridason_Arnaldur.php\">Arnaldur Indridason<\/a> translated by Anna Yates (8.5\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystery, Historical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4939\">Beneath a Silent Moon<\/a><\/em> (2003) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Grant_Teresa.php\">Tracy Grant<\/a> (8.5\/10)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4957\">The Mask of Night<\/a><\/em> (2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Grant_Teresa.php\">Tracy Grant<\/a> (8.5\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantasy, Supernatural<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4921\">Fair Game<\/a><\/em> (2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/briggsp.php\">Patricia Briggs<\/a> (9\/10)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4917\">Eternal: Shadow Falls: After Dark<\/a><\/em> (2014) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4917\">C.C. Hunter<\/a> (8.5\/10)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4953\">Night Shift<\/a><\/em> (2014) Nalini Singh; <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/andrewsi.php\">Ilona Andrews<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/shearin_lisa.php\">Lisa Shearin<\/a>; Milla Vane (8\/10)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4912\">Broken Soul<\/a><\/em> (2014) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/hunter_faith.php\">Faith Hunter<\/a> (7\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic Novels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4930\">Fables Vol. 20: <em>Camelot<\/em><\/a> (2014) Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Russ Braun, Barry Kitson (8\/10)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4942\">Fairest Vol. 4: <em>Cinderella: \u00a0Of Men and Mice<\/em><\/a> (2014) Mark Andreyko, Shawn McManus (7\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romance, Historical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4933\">A Study in Seduction<\/a><\/em> (2012) Nina Rowan (7\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4936\"><em>Whispers Under Ground<\/em>, Audible Version<\/a> (2012\/2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/aaronovitch_ben.php\">Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (10\/10)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4928\"><em>Blood Cross<\/em>, Audible Version<\/a> (2010\/2010) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/hunter_faith.php\">Faith Hunter<\/a> narrated by Khristine Hvam (8.5\/10)<\/p>\n<p>I read 13 books this year, so that&#8217;s 155 so far for the year. Probably break last year&#8217;s total, but that is still quite a number of books.<\/p>\n<p>Paperback 1<br \/>\nTrade Paperback 2<br \/>\neBook 8<br \/>\nAudio 2<br \/>\nMultiple Formats 2<br \/>\nRe-read 3<\/p>\n<p>As always, ebooks are far and away beating paper books.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy and mystery were pretty evenly split this month, but I did get in two comics.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy 6<br \/>\nMystery 5<br \/>\nRomance 3<br \/>\nComic 2<\/p>\n<p>And female authors are continuing to lead male authors. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>Male 3<br \/>\nFemale 7<br \/>\nAnthology 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now&#8230;. the books of November! Again, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith&#8217;s reading of Ben Aaronovitch&#8217;s Rivers of London series was again spot-on perfect, with Whispers Under Ground. I adore listening to this series so very much. Also very good was Henning Mankell&#8217;s The Troubled Man, the 10th Kurt Wallander book. Be aware this is as much about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-37j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}