That’s how I found out about The October Country by Ray Bradbury and I remember I was so happy and relieved! My book challenge was saved and I was also saved from the misery of reading that boring book I had originally chosen. Then one day my sister came up with a bunch of titles and suggested I look them up.

Thank goodness I had time to choose a different book, but the choice was not that great-I struggled with finding another read and it made me nervous, as well as frustrated at myself for not researching enough, apparently, in the first place. I had to force myself to actually go through another page of it, and this is something that doesn’t happen often, I usually finish everything I’ve started. The reading didn’t even last two days, as I just couldn’t make myself open the book and read. I read many positive reviews, so I relaxed, forgot about it and thought I had the last few months of the challenge all planned (not quite, as it turned out.) I picked it up again in September, as I had finished with my September read, so I wanted to get ahead and finish the next one in advance. Initially, I had chosen another title with the word ‘October’ for our challenge, and I even bought it back in March, as I was certain it was the one I wanted to include.

Okay, first, a little bit of the story behind choosing this book as the one for the October’s #MonthlyTitles book challenge. The October Country: #MonthlyTitles book review

The october country