@Narnian78, are you planning to read the rest of the books in the Anne of Green Gables series after you finish the first one?

@Arin, glad you were able to come to a satisfactory stopping point on the Murderbot books. I hope you're able to break out of the reading rut sometime soon - I tend to fall into them for a few different reasons, but not having a lot of free time to make good progress on a book is definitely one of them. 😐

Congrats on getting the Ashtown reread finished, @SnowAngel, and making it through The Silent Bells! Interesting about the ending being too fast - that would be disappointing. Your comment has me thinking, though, and I'm trying to remember if any of his endings actually were satisfactory to me. I know the series end of 100 Cupboards wasn't and I can't remember enough about the endings of his standalone books I've read to figure out if there's a pattern.
Too bad that you might not make all your reading goals for this year, but glad to hear you've knocked at least some of them off!

October hasn't been the best month for reading, but I've made it through some books at least. I read Green for Danger by Christianna Brand last week; I'd seen the movie of it a number of years ago and enjoyed it, but I found the book rather depressing. I know there were changes between the movie and the book, of course, but I can't remember if the murderer's identity was one of them or not, or if things ended any more happily for certain characters or not. I may have to track down a copy of the movie now and see how it stands up after the book.

@valiantarcher 

I borrowed Chronicles of Avonlea and Further Chronicles of Avonlea (both are written by L. M. Montgomery) from my church library, and I plan to read them soon hopefully before my church closes. There are other books in the Anne series that look pretty inviting and maybe sometime I can read them too. The second book in the series, Anne of Avonlea, was changed considerably when it was adapted for television in its plot and some of the characters were altered.  But I think the creators of the 1980’s series did quite a good job especially with casting Megan Follows as Anne. That is why the series is so much loved even forty years later.  🙂