Consider yourself PRE-AMBLED!

Books Finished
1. The Birth of the Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom from History
2. The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester from Favourite Re-Reads
3. Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson from Pop Cultural Studies

Books Started
1. Essential Fantastic Four Vol. 1 by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby from Comics Trade Paperbacks

Books Still Working On
1. Legends of the Samurai by Hiroaki Sato
2. Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons from Favourite Re-Reads
3. A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber from Philosophy

Favourite of the Month:
Tough call, but for the third month in a row, a re-read was my favourite this month. The Meaning of Everything is just too good, and if you think that a book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary can’t be good, then you are WRONG.

EDIT: When I first put this together, I accidentally included two books that I actually finished in DECEMBER, not November. So I only read one book this month from my 999 Challenge list. That is pretty sad, but that also means that it was my favourite book this month. I found that The Birth of the Chess Queen didn’t tie its two subjects together as neatly as I wanted it to, but it was still interesting to see the Queen’s rise in power both on the chessboard and in the historical-political spheres. An interesting and educational read, if not necessarily a page-turner.

I honestly thought I would get through more books than I did, but I underestimated the amount of time the play would take. Now that it’s over, and December is half over, I re-re-re-challenge myself. Seven books from this list in December. With all the vacation time that’s coming to me, I I may even pull it off.