What are we reading in April?

I'm still reading The Grimm Legacy, which I started yesterday. What are you reading this month?

I've started Marcoeffekten by Jussi Adler-Olsen for the MysteryCAT and Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller for GeoCAT. I'm also still working on The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, which is making me wish I could read in Portuguese - the language is so, so dense, but beautiful.

I'm finishing up A State of Independence, which I didn't quite manage to finish for the March GeoCAT. I'm also working on World War One British Poets for the RandomCAT and the audio of The Boy in the Suitcase for the MysteryCAT.

Finally getting around to Quite Ugly One Morning, which is quite funny but definitely has a different feel from Brookmyre's Jasmine Sharp series. My edition is also a TV tie-in -- apparently James Nesbitt (aka Bofur from The Hobbit trilogy) played Jack Parlabane! Interesting.

I'm starting the month with Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult. The book I chose for the Random Cat this month is in transit to me and I hope to pick it up at the library later this week.

I'm reading The Quick by Lauren Owen, my February ER book.

I'm about halfway through The Luminaries and enjoying it. I started Cockroaches last night, but was too sleepy to get far.

I've also decided to start The Bat by Jo Nesbo as my ebook treadmill book.

I'm reading 2 pretty sizable collections of poetry--one by Muriel Rukeyser and one by Lorine Niedecker. I'm also about twenty pages away from finishing The Korean Word for Butterfly, and about fifty pages into Starter House.

Seem to have a bunch of ARCs turn up at once, reading the first now Spindrift

I'm reading The Three Musketeers at the moment.

I just finished rereading Queens' Play -- great historical fiction, although this is my least favorite of the series.

And I am almost done with The Hangman's Daughter for my foreign mystery category... this month's Mystery CAT will be boosting my reading in this category!

Oh, and I have been dipping into Robert Frost's poems for the RandomCAT.

My daytime reading is The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth which is excellent. I have one of my favourite authors for night time reading, E.F. Benson's Mrs Ames that is slower and will take a bit of time to enjoy. I started a re-read of Coming Up for Air by George Orwell (another favourite author) that may also take some time but only because the print is so small.

I'm currently reading A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison. I imagine I'll finish it this weekend. I'm also listening to the audiobook of Storm Front by Jim Butcher. It's a "reread" for me, but I'm loving the narration by James Marsters. I have Eva to blame thank for this audiobook bullet.

Finished The Secret Rooms, by Catherine Bailey, and am now reading Nothing: A Very Short Introduction, by F.E. Close. This title is providing much amusement on my Goodreads account. "Because you are currently reading Nothing, here are a few recommendations."

>15 rabbitprincess: Lol!

My two library requests came in so I've also started China Trade by S.J. Rozan and Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa which I chose for my Random Cat challenge book this month.

Reading No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym and Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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I just read The Bridge of Sighs which ended up being pretty good. My next fiction will probably be The Winter Queen.

I just finished Transformations by Anne Sexton and am now beginning The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman.

I am in the middle of The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen and I'm planning on starting Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang later on this evening.

Last week I finished reading Midnight Assassin by Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf, which is a true crime account concerning the murder of John Hossack, a farmer in Iowa in December 1900. His wife, Margaret, was accused of the murder; this account is about the investigation of the murder, the trials of Margaret (she was tried twice, found guilty the first time and had a hung jury the second). The murder was never solved. The book describes farm life in Iowa at that time, and the place of women. No women were allowed on the jury, and relatively few women were called as witnesses. Susan Glaspell attended the first trial as a newspaper reporter; she later wrote both a play "Trifles" and a short story "A Jury of her Peers" loosely based on the trial.

Currently, I'm reading Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline for a book club discussion next week, and poems from The Nearest Poetry Anthology edited by Sofia M. Starnes for the April Random CAT. I will also be reading Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, which a couple of people read for the January Random CAT challenge, for another book club discussion next week. Both my book clubs meet the same week since this month the second Monday and third Thursday both fall in the same week.

>23 sallylou61: Your mention of Trifles pinged something in my brain...I read that play for a class in law school! It's definitely worth a read if you haven't.

Re 24: I will try to read the play sometime soon. I'd like to see how it and "A Jury of her Peers" relate; in our class discussion of the short story some classmates felt the story read kind of like a play. The short story is very different in many respects from the Hossack case since the short story has the female accused of murdering her husband being childless (the Hossacks had nine living children), and the mode of murder is different. However, both demonstrate the isolation of farm life, the difficult life of farm women, and the difficulty marriages can have, especially if the man is hard to get along with.

I've finished A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, which was fantastic. I'm now reading My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir for the MysteryCAT.

I finished The Guns of August. I'm working on Lowcountry Boil, which is not as enjoyable as I'd hoped. I've got Jazz checked out and ready to begin.

I started The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson last night. Only a few chapters in, but so far it hasn't been memorable (pun half intended - seriously, when I opened up my Kindle this morning, I was surprised to see I had started a book the night before. Then by this afternoon, I couldn't remember what book it was).

DQ - My son is reading Wild Swans for his English class right now. What do you think of it?

I just finished A Town Like Alice which was my pick for book group this year. I'm hosting next week. Also reading something about John Wilkes Booth.

i just started The Cruel Stars of the Night for the MysteryCAT and I'm working on Spies, Patriots, and Traitors as well. I'm nearing the end of the audio of The Boy in the Suitcase and I'm dipping into a few pages of World War One British Poets each night.

>29 cmbohn: Cindy, Wild Swans is full of information about China as it evolved throughout the 20th Century, it is also the personal story of one family. I thought it was very well done, the writing was a little uneven but really, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about China.

I am currently reading The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold and Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer. Both are fun, quick reads that I am really enjoying.

Reading several books right now: Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Five Days at Memorial, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, and Treasure Island.

I am currently reading The Keeper of Lost Causes.In other news, I've discovered borrowing e books from the library. This does not bode well for my TBR!

>33 lsh63: My library makes quite a lot of new and popular books available for eBook checkout, so it's nice not to have to buy them. Unfortunately, the library books often keep me from getting to the big virtual pile of ebooks I already own.

Currently reading a library eBook, The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud.

I've been reading a lot of library print books lately -- trying to get the stack under control. Finally reading a book I own, The Last Frontier by Alistair MacLean (hyperlink because touchstones are acting wonky).

I'm starting The Man Who Went Up in Smoke for MysteryCAT and The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy And Other Stories for PoetryCAT.

I've finished Sing You Home by Jodi Picoultand Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. Still reading Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa and started The Bee Season by Myla Goldberg.

I loved Briar Rose. Not what I expected, but very good. I just started Allen Quatermain.

I finished the audiobook of Lady Audley's Secret which I found excellent! Now onto The Red and the Black narrated by Davina Porter, which will fit into two different categories for me :)

I have finished reading the books listed in #23 (Orphan Train, The Nearest Poetry Anthology, and Brooklyn). Now I am beginning Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution which I snagged in the LT Early Reviewers program, and for lighter reading, Dog Songs, a book of poetry about dogs by Mary Oliver. I also plan to read both Nadirs by Herta Muller and The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy for the April GeoCAT challenge, and Ice Cream U by Lee Stout for the unofficial AlphaCAT challenge. Ice Cream U is a history of the Penn State University creamery, where both Ben and Jerry learned to make ice cream; its author is the retired archivist of the University who used to be a colleague of mine at the University Library there. I have looked at the many pictures in the book, but never read the text.

I'm planning to skip the Mystery CAT challenge this mouth, and probably also the AlphaCAT challenge for the letter P.

I recently finished The Winter Queen which I enjoyed. I also read some more stories from the Arabian Nights and have almost finished a small book of America poetry.

I've begun Silence of the Grave and The Remains of Company D. Soon I hope to start The Canterbury Tales.

I'm currently reading Sidetracked right now which is sheer perfection as usual.

Just finished The Bat by Jo Nesbo, my Mystery Cat book for this month.

Started The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford.

Wow. Gabriel García Márquez passed away today. I didn't realise that he was 87. Very sad news.

I'm listening to Fool Moon by Jim Butcher.

I started Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, but I'm just not feeling it. I expected to feel a sense of wonder reading it, but instead it feels kind of sinister. Am I way off base here?

Since that book wasn't working for me, I started Labor Day - which I'm expecting to be sinister. :-)

I am currently reading Me and the Boys by Ellen Recknor, a really good western set in the lively town of Tombstone. I am also reading Lovely Green Eyes by Arnost Lustig, a much more difficult read dealing as it does with Nazi atrocities during WW II.

I am reading The Redbreast for this month's MysteryCAT… this is my first Nesbø and I am enjoying it so far.

I'm taking a break from The Sunne in Splendour (which is very good, but also very LONG!) to read Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, my pick for this month's MysteryCAT.

Just finished We for the GEOCat and now reading Orphan Train for my RL book club.

Roseanna went really quickly, so it's on to Broken April by Ismail Kadare, which works for the GeoCAT since it's set in Albania.

I enjoyed my last read in the Wallander series so much that I am now reading The Fifth Woman.

I am completely hooked on these right now, I think it's because my mom is currently enjoying the series also. I may have to finish up the series soon.

I'm reading George, Nicholas and Wilhelm and I just started listening to the audio of The Chinese Orange Mystery. I know I won't finish it before the end of the month so it will count toward May's golden age/classic MysteryCAT. I often have an ebook going for those times when I unexpectedly have a few spare minutes to read, and right now it's The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister. I'm still on track to finish Shakespeare's Sonnets by the end of the month for the poetry RandomCAT.

I'm about to start One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak. The Sunne in Splendour is still on hold…I'm enjoying the book, but I wanted to make sure I got to the other books I'd planned to read this month!

I'm reading Glasshouse by Charles Stross, for a book group, finding it dull and just duty reading it at the moment. You know when literary people look down on skiffy? Well this book is a good example of why they do so....

Having temporarily misplaced my MysteryCAT book, My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, I'm reading Nine Horses, a collection of poems by Billy Wilder for the RandomCAT. I'm also reading Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates.

>56 RidgewayGirl: Hi Kay:I remember loving Revolutionary Road when I read it.

I found myself overdoing a little bit with the Nordic mysteries, so now I am reading The Violets of March . I think I have a thing for wartime family secrets revealed through a diary lol!

I am currently lost in the 15th Century with The King's Grey Mare which is based on the life of Elizabeth Woodville. And just to keep it lighter, I am also reading a zombie book, The Sacrifice by Charlie Higson.

Man, I really liked One More Thing! Ended up devouring it in less than 24 hours, so now it's on to Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins. Looks like I may have time to go back and finish The Sunne in Splendour this month after all!

Finished The Good Soldier and am changing the pace with The Nameless Dead, by Brian McGilloway.

Since last I was here, I've finished Bee Season by Myla Goldberg and The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker. Am currently reading Skirt Steak by Charlotte Druckman while on the treadmill, A Brewing Storm by Richard Castle and When in Rome by Gemma Townley. I'm hoping to finish at least one if not more before the end of the month.

Off to a library sale later this morning and hoping not to do too much damage to the TBR.

ETA: OOPs - library sale wasn't at the place I thought. And I had to "Pearl rule" When in Rome. Just wasn't for me. I've decided to start Quilt As Desired by Arlene Sachitano instead.

I've just started Blade of Fortriu by Juliet Marillier, which I expect will take me into May as well.

I've just finished Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas and will probably start The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly and get a head start on one of my May Cat books.