Share Your Shelf October 2025

 

Thanks to Joyce for making me aware of this blog linky. Now that I'm back to reading, I hope my lists will grow each month. But for now, this post is going to be pretty meager.

As I said in my Back to Reading Post, this is the book that the book club I'm in read and finished in October. I hope that still counts since I didn't read the whole book that month! We started at the end of Sept., met every 2 weeks after reading approximately 200 pages, and finished it mid-October.

I knew the book was going to be good since it was from Anthony Doerr. One participant in the book club (another Speech-Language Pathologist) said that she had to make a graphic organizer to keep up with who was in what time period. The end of the book left me wanting more information. I'll just leave it at that. 

This is definitely one to put on your "must-read" shelf!

This is the 2nd book in the Seven Sisters series. I read the first book quite a while ago and read this one while I was on my last pilgrimage to Greece. There were things that I read in the book that paralleled my life.  One was the "evil eye" pendant that Ally was given. The evil eye (or God's eye in Turkiye) was everywhere in Greece. And, Ally is a flautist. So I had a connection, but that was where the connection ended. 

The premise of the series is that a man (Pa Salt) adopted 6 girls (the 7th girl hasn't arrived on the scene yet for some reason).  Each of the girls is named after a star in a constellation. When Pa Salt (who is a billionaire) dies, he leaves a clue to each girl's heritage; it's up to them to discover it if they wish. 

There is some factual history in the books (which I like), but it is in the nonfiction genre. It is definitely an interesting read.

So...that's it for October. Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up more books this month. If you need ideas for what to read next, check out the hosts' blogs:

The Other Side of the Road

Slices of Life

My Joyful Life

Memphis Bridges