November 2021: What are you reading?

Happy All Saints Day, All Souls Day and, Dia de los Muertos! What 1001 Books are you reading in these dying days of the year?

I just finished Memento Mori and will start Blonde as soon as the library hold comes through and I'm hoping to get to The Diviners later this month as well.

I'm also reading Blonde for the group read.

I guess we all wanted to get an early start on this thick book as I am also reading Blonde right now and I hope to read The Stranger by Albert Camus later on in the month.

I am reading Three Men in a Boat which is on some version of the 1001 list (Danish?), after which I will be doing Blonde. I had no idea how hefty it was going to be, or I would not have started 3 men first.

I started the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone). The third book is not on the list, but it makes sense to complete the trilogy. All three book are on the Mustich list, 1000 Books to Read Before You Die, which I might tackle after the 1001 list.

I have given up on Blonde and am instead reading Ferdydurke, a very strange book but at least it is (physically) lightweight. The introduction by Susan Sontag assures me that it is metaphysically heavyweight but I hope to be able to ignore that.