The Spring is Coming in the North: The March TIOLI thread

Welcome back to the TIOLI. The Spring starts in the North Hemisphere, the summer ends in the South (I think)... so time to read :)

Eligible works:
- Work titles containing the word March, aquamarine (the stone of the month), Pisces(the sign), Daffodil or Jonquil (the flower) or Three, third and any other word that shows a third in something

- Books by authors with the name March, aquamarine (the stone of the month), Pisces(the sign), Daffodil or Jonquil (the flower)

- Books with a character named March, aquamarine (the stone of the month), Pisces(the sign), Daffodil or Jonquil (the flower) or Three, third and any other word that shows a third in something

- Third books in series, third books written by authors and so on

Considering that march as a word has a lot of meanings, I suspect we will have a lot of different titles flying around.

I am reserving the next post for examples and will try to fill it in based on what people post and what I find :)

So.. what are you reading?

Examples (not recommendations - I am just listing examples I am finding):

Series/characters:
Maude March: http://www.librarything.com/series/Maude+March - historical, YA?
Colonel March: http://www.librarything.com/series/Colonel+March - crime fiction
John March: http://www.librarything.com/series/John+March - crime fiction

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Authors:

Books:
Burning March by Neil Albert
March by Geraldine Brooks
March Violets by Philip Kerr
The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon
King of The Middle March by Kevin Crossley-Holland and it is #3 in the series

Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman - fantasy, YA
Aquamarine by Mel Keegan - SF

The Daffodil affair by Michael Innes - #8 in a Mystery series
The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace

I plan to read Milk and Honey: A Decker/Lazarus novel by Faye Kellerman, which is third in the series. I also have Terminator 3: Terminator Dreams by Aaron Allston as a possibility

>3 VictoriaPL:

For what it is worth, I really like the early Decker/Lazarus novels so happy reading

My plan is to read: The Daffodil Mystery, Eggsecutive Orders 3rd in series, Three Seconds and Killing Critics, also 3rd in a series.

Oh and I forgot that I recently obtained Berlin Noir which has March Violets in it.

I plan to read
The March by E.L Doctorow
and
Sovereign (3rd in the series) by C.J. Sansom
maybe
Faithful Place by Tana French (3rd in the series)

I plan on reading March by Geraldine Brooks.

>4 AnnieMod:. Thanks Annie! So, have you read the whole series? Do they hold up?

>8 VictoriaPL: I've read some of the later ones, I had missed some of the middle ones. Working on fixing that :)

I like them - they are different in a way and as most series, they can get a bit repetitive if you go after all of them on a go.

I'll be reading Little Women with the March sisters.

I'll probably end up reading the third book in several series (I'll be reading mostly mysteries), but I may join DeltaQueen in reading March by Geraldine Brooks.

I'm planning on taking March by Geraldine Brooks with me on vacation next week and then later in the month I think I'm planning to read The Violets of March by Sarah Jio

I'm also planning to read Eggsecutive Orders. And I'm hoping to finally get to Sup with the Devil by Barbara Hamilton. Both books are 3rd in the series.

I'd like to read March, too, but I don't currently have access to it. So, in the interest of reducing the tbrs, I don't know if I'll get to it this month.

My March book is Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw. (Her newest book Carry the One releases in March and I've already preordered it, so I'll be reading that also. Not that that has anything to do with the TIOLI challenge. :) )

I have already read March by Geraldine Brooks 5 years ago and loved it.

I am tending to something with three or third in the title.

Already on my Kobo are: Dumas' The Three Musketeers Dickens' Three Ghost Stories.

Oh, and I am part way through Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which has a March hare. I will finish that one.

I also came across an interesting title: Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini which sounds like fun.

And on my shelves but never read: Three from Galilee, Nurses Three. Three Singles to Adventure, Disney's The Three Little Pigs.

Can't do them all so will narrow down the choices by March 1st.

Resisting the urge to search my local library catalogue for all possible options..... I have already committed myself to two group reads in March while continuing with the year-long reading of DQ so I am going to just plan to 'hopefully' find time to read March by Geraldine Brooks. It is a slim volume and one already on my TBR bookcase.

I'm planning to read The March by E L Doctorow. I picked it up at the Borders sale last year, so it's ready whenever I am.

I'll be reading third in a series, Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie.

I'm planning to read When the Devil Holds the Candle, the third book -- at least in English publication order -- in Karin Fossom's Inspector Sejer series. Also thinking about reading Doctorow's The March. I have a bunch of other "third in series" possibilities on the shelf, too.

I have decided to focus on books that are on my shelves rather than on my Kobo or from the library. So, my committed books will be:
Three from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes (completed March 31)
Nurses Three: First Assignment (a young adult book) by Jean Kirby (completed)
Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell (completed March 31)

I didn't go through every book in my TBR pile at the house, but I've identified 5 third in series that I wouldn't mind getting around to reading this month:

Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly
Memorial Hall Murder by Jane Langton - I've read quite a few of this series, out of order.
Pasta Imperfect by Maddy Hunter - I haven't read the earlier two books, but as this is the only one in the house, I'll give it a try.
Bedeviled Eggs by Laura Childs - Actually, I don't own this one, but my library has a copy.
The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson - Again, I've read this series out of order, and I haven't read one in quite a while.

I am hoping to read The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis

My plan is to read the 3rd book in the Hunger Games and also the 3rd book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series this month.

I plan on reading Flashman on the march

I'm going to read The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson, third book in a series.

I'm planning some third-in-series books, too, possibly:

When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
Butcher's Hill by Laura Lippman
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves

I'm also thinking of reading The March by E.L. Doctorow

I read the Geraldine Brooks book for a challenge a couple of years ago and didn't like it at all, but that's just me. I didn't like the way she changed the characters from what I imagined.

However, I really enjoyed The Daffodil Affair. You don't have to have read others in the series to pick that one up, but it might help. It's very much an absurdist sort of tale, but for some reason, that just really appealed to me.

I'll read the 3rd in the Ven Polypheme series, something about a dragon. Really looking forward to that. I might find another book too, but that's all I have right now.

I'm thinking about Venus in Copper, the third Falco adventure.

just barely eked out a february read :)
here's hoping my march will be a lot better:

Mockingjay - Hunger Games Bk3 (i HAVE to finish this series!)
1Q84 - Vol3, although I have to get through Vol2 1st
Three Act Tragedy - cozy whodunnit :D

I picked up my chosen book with "March" in the title at the library yesterday for my monthly themed read:
The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth. I love historical fiction and would like to know more about the beginnings of WWI. I may get started on this one later today.

I'll also be joining Terri in reading When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum. I've really liked the first two of her mysteries set in Norway.

I'm well into March by Geraldine Brooks, and although I am quite enjoying the book, I am having trouble identifying what he writes about his wife with my memory of Marmee. Perhaps a re-read of Little Women is in order.

> 31 - Very helpful comment Judy. I will consider myself better prepared - because I cannot remember the story of Little Women - which may be a good thing when I get around to reading March.

I'm curious what all you next-in-series people are going to be reading when we get to November. :)

>33 Her_Royal_Orangeness: - There is always Valediction by Robert B. Parker who wrote 40 books about the detective Spenser ... and I have read all of them and own most...

>33 Her_Royal_Orangeness:

There is a LOT of mystery series that are way past the 11th mark :) And at least a few SF and Fantasy ones I can think of.

I just finished my first March read:Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs, The Original Story Wonderful world of reading a wonderful children's book. The illustrations are hand painted lantern slides from the original cartoon. I read this book many times to my two sons who are now 24 and 29 and they loved it. What I had never before read were the last few pages that talk about the history and the success of the animated cartoon. It won the Academy Award in 1933 and was seen as a social commentary of the times. The song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf became a theme song for hope in the great Depression. Very interesting.

I just finished a third-in-series book: Red Bones, third in Ann Cleeves' Shetland Quartet.

Now I'm on to Butcher Hill, third in the Tess Monaghan series by Laura Lippman.

I finished the 3rd in the Joe Sandilands series last night: The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly.

I had finished Pasta Imperfect by Maddy Hunter earlier in the month, but I'm not sure I reported it here.

Just finished third-in-series Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman.

I realized that I've already read The Cereal Murders so I'm not going to re-read it. I've got plenty of other things to read this month.

I just spent about 20 minutes searching through my TBR list and modifying my posted list of "month"ly titles. Then I hit one of those LT glitches, and the whole edit session was gone . . . ouch.

41> I hate when things like that happen!

I read March by Geraldine Brooks while I was on vacation and am planning to start The Violets of March by Sarah Jio.

I forgot to come back here and say that I finished March and I ended up loving it and thought the author did a remarkable job on character development.

So far I've read a couple of volume 3's in ongoing series:

Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston from the Joe Pitt series
The Absolute Sandman Volume Three by Neil Gaimain

I just finished Eggsecutive Orders by Julie Hyzy, the 3rd in her White House Chef series.

And I realized this morning that The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, which I finished a couple of days ago, probably also qualifies for this challenge, since it's his 3rd book featuring symbologist Robert Langdon.

I'm still hoping to read Sup with the Devil, also 3rd in series, later this month. It seems unlikely that I'll get to March.

...The Spring is Coming to the North...
And today it was 71 in RI - new record.

71? Fahrenheit I guess?

Oh yes - sorry about that!

its 9 Celsius here which is about 50 F I guess

In the 80s around here :)

I did manage to get The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis on ILL. Loved it. It was classified as jr fiction, but to my mind it was ever bit as good as the Flavia de Luce series. It was a western - not my normal genre, but it was a good read.

max, that looks like a good book; just ordered it from my library.

I finished the third book (in the English translation order) of the Inspector Sejer series by Karin Fossum, When the Devil Holds the Candle. Did I mention that I started Sherman's March by Burke Davis? (I get confused what got posted where. ;)

Cindy, I hope you enjoy it, I thought it was a lot of fun.

finished book3 of the hunger games! :D now onto vol2 and vol3 of 1q84. hope i can finish it with time to spare so i can still squeeze in 'three act tragedy' for march :)

Finished Flashman on the march

I finished my 2nd TIOLI for March - The Violets of March by Sarah Jio

I just finished The Violets of March, too. Really enjoyed it, especially the setting! Did you like it?

In the end I did - although there were a few places where I was annoyed and felt the story was somewhat contrived. I'llbe posting about it on my thread sometime this week

I just finished Nurses Three: First Assignment which, I have owned since 1963. I was given it by a friend Sylvia for my 11th birthday. I grew up to be a nurse and it gave me quite a chuckle to re-read this book at age 59. Penny is a new graduate who gets a job as a private duty home nurse for an elderly gentleman who has had a heart attack. The patient has two sons who are both interested in dating Penny and she seems to have no problem with that from a nursing ethics point of view. She also becomes quite personally involved with the patient and his family and his financial situation. I can see that the story would have made nursing seem quite glamorous to me as an 11 year old. Penny also helps a deaf-mute boy learn sign language and get away from his abusive father. Oh, if nursing were only truly like this!

The book is seriously outdated in terms of medical information and, as mentioned before, the lack of nursing ethics but as a 'blast from the past' it was a fun read.

I think I shall move this one off my shelves. I don't think I would want any young person in my life reading this book now.

I'm reading a third in the series Last Argument of Kings. Any other connection to March is purely accidental.

I just finished The Green Hat by Michael Arlen.
The leading female, wearer of the green hat, was Iris Storm, formerly known as Iris March and her twin brother was Gerald March. This book was published in 1924 but it has been re published. I enjoyed it as a tragic romance but also for its modernity and social statement.

So far I've read Three Days to Never by Tim Powers, which was ok, and Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, which was excellent. Currently reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin, the third in the Earthsea series. I hope to get to Shadowmarch by Tad Williams before the end of the month.

Just finished Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Trying to read some of the classics of English Literature, you know. This fits our theme for this month since one of the characters is a March Hare.

First line:
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'

I found this book intriguing and boring at the same time. I think that I have been contaminated by the movies and television shows so the book seemed too 'plain'. Not enough colour. It is one of the few times that I can say that I enjoyed the movie more than the book; usually it is the other way around.

I did find that the change of topics from chapter to chapter frustrating but when you see that the whole thing is a dream, well, that is how dreams work isn't it? Not much connection between one thing and another, jumping from scene to scene.

If I was going to read this to my children I would choose some kind of a Disney version because I think that the graphics, in this case, add a valuable dimension to the reading experience.

I am glad that I read it but it will never be a re-read, unless I have a grand-child!

I did finish Sup with the Devil, the 3rd in Barbara Hamilton's Abigail Adams mystery series, set just before the Revolutionary War.

Three Singles to Adventure - done

First line:
In a tiny bar in the back streets of Georgetown four of us sat round a table, sipping rum and ginger beer and pondering a problem.

Thus begins Three Singles to Adventure, an account of Gerald Durrell's animal collecting expedition to British Guiana (now Guyana) in the 1950s.

This was Durrell's second book and the first of his works that I have read. I have many others on my shelves, inherited from my mother who was a great lover of animals.

It is fun to read all of the misadventures as they collect fauna for zoos in Great Britain. A good read!

Finished Three from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes.

First line:
Hannah had been restless all night.

In this book, Holmes creates an imaginary childhood and youth for Jesus, the Christ with his mother and father Mary and Joseph.

Because this is fiction it allows for some imaginative directions that may or may not make sense to all based on your religions interpretation of Jesus life.
Since these are 'what might have been' I found it easy to suspend any disbelief about what I was reading and relax and just enjoy this for what it was.

I did find it interesting the way that Holmes wound 'bible stories' into this part of Jesus' life, for instance one of his brothers left home stealing his inheritance and returned many years later like the prodigal son.

An enjoyable read. I am ready to pass this book on to someone else now.

I have finished the book Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins for my March read. It really tied things up for the series, however, it was a little slower of a read than the other 2. I saw the "Hunger Games" movie this weekend, and it was neat to see how some of the lines and scenes foreshadow what happens in the 3rd book.

I am currently finishing another series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Again, this is moving a little slower, but just when you think it's getting boring, "BAM," another exciting instance! There are a lot more characters to keep track of, and it reminds the reader of the instances that took place in the other 2 books quite a bit. My goal is to finish it this week, however, with all that is going on besides book reading, I don't know! But, I would highly recommend reading this series if you enjoy suspenseful books. It is really good!

Looking forward to the April list! Any idea when that will be posted?

>69 abwahl1998:
Yeah - later today (as soon as I can get off the phone and finish the post I had started this morning..)

I finished Purgatory Ridge, the third book in William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor series. Still working on Sherman's March by Burke Davis.

I completed one more for the March TIOLI category with Lazybones by Mark Billingham. This is the third in a series.

April is up: http://www.librarything.com/topic/135025

Sorry for the delay :)

No worries, Annie. Thanks!

I don't think I will finish anything else before April 1st. Here's what I read for March:
Eggsecutive Orders 3rd in series
Daffodil Mystery
Night Frost 3rd in series
Third Degree
Killing Critics 3rd in series
Mockingjay 3rd in series

I had hoped to get to March Violets but I became too engrossed in the Hunger Games trilogy. I agree with you # 69 about Mockingjay, it was good, but I did not read it as quickly as the first two.

I saw The Hunger Games last weekend and can't wait to start the read. Maybe this month or May

Well I have to admit March was a bust for me - I don't think I read anything that qualifies! I'll try to do better in April.

I read Burning March so I got a book in the month. Other from that - too busy reading other stuff... :)

i just finished vol2 of 1Q84 :) w/c means i have no time to finish vol 3 for march :( but then i get to read the last volume in April cause it has a 4 in its title! :D

so for march, i only finished Catching Fire (Hunger Games book 3).

now MARCHing onto APRIL :)

>79 riida: now MARCHing onto APRIL :)

I love that - could have used it for the title but did not even think about it.

I managed three TIOLI-books this month, all of them third in a series:

Faye Kellerman's Milk and Honey (review here), Kathy Reichs's Deadly Décisions (review here), Colin Cotterill's Disco for the Departed (review here).

For April, I'm planning to continue the above series with book(s) four.

I am currently reading March but not finished so no books this month for me.... but I am already making plans for the April books!

> 80

tnx Annie :)

My March reads:

The Violets of March by Sarah Jio - 3.5 stars
March Violets by Philip Kerr - 4.1
March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac - 2.8
Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner - 2.2

My reads for this month's challenge:

Red Bones by Ann Cleves (3rd in Shetland Quartet)
Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman (3rd in Tess Monoghan series)
When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum (3rd in Inspector Sejer series English Translation order)
Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger (3rd in Cork O'Connor series)
and just finished, a little late,
Sherman's March by Burke Davis

In March, I read seven books; three of which were actually rereads for me! :) Although, I will only put down the books that pertain to this challenge.

23. Crescent City - To my knowledge, this was Belva Plain's third novel; although it it was not one of my rereads for the month of March. :)