What are we reading in March?

Happy March, everyone! What are you reading this month? I've started Frogkisser! by Garth Nix, which is a lot of fun so far!

I'm juggling a couple of books right now: The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch, The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse, and The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. Oh yeah, I'm also reading Slow Reading in a Hurried Age by David Mikics for my book club, but it's a book that is really getting on my nerves so I'm trying to forget that I'm reading it too.

I'm reading The Fourth Dimension, a recent ER win by Eric Walters, and Janet Evanovich's Plum Spooky, both in hardback. I'm listening to The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton.

I am juggling a few books as well. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen by installments, Friends At Thrush Green by Miss Read, Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh and listening to Born A Crime by Trevor Noah. These should keep me out of trouble for a few days!

I started Sunburn yesterday and finished it this morning. I love Laura Lippman, and I found this book to be a very good read. There is a brief mention of James M. Cain with a slight nod to Double Indemnity, which is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I'm still reading Don Quixote. At this rate I'll still be reading this in May!

Also have The Tales of Max Carrados on audio in the car and The art of Flying which I received in my book gift box.

1- I read Frogkisser last year and I really liked it. It was silly fun. The heralds were the best.

I'm reading Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson and really liking it. Also reading The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg, which is kinda slow but it's growing on me.

>7 cmbohn: "Silly fun" is just what I'm looking for right now! :) Also, I'll be interested to see what you think of The Spirit Lens! I've read a couple other books by Carol Berg and really liked them, although they definitely were slow to get going.

I'm finishing up Inkblots, and about halfway through Jeff Vandermeer's Un Lun Dun.

Still reading A History of Ancient Britain, by Neil Oliver, on the bus. At home I am finishing up His Bloody Project, by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

I am still reading Infinite Jest - I feel much like >6 Helenliz: does about Don Quixote! I am also finishing up the audiobook of Deja Dead and Between Shades of Gray.

Next up is Purge, which I didn't manage to get to in time for Feb.'s AlphaKIT.

I have quite a few (for me) that I'm reading at the moment.
Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams was my Random book from last Nov that I still haven't finished (this month for sure)
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown was one of my Feb Color Cat books that I left home when we went on vacation because it was a hard cover.
And two I started on vacation that are almost done:
The Collectors by David Baldacci and The Dante Connection by Estelle Ryan

Now that I'm home, I also need to add the books I read to all the wikis and update my spreadsheet.

I am finding it slightly ironic that I am reading a book about Estonia (Purge), having just finished a book about Lithuanians (Between Shades of Gray) -- two nearby countries I don't think I have ever read anything about before.

Turning my attention to the journalists who reported on the Halifax Explosion, with Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion, by Michael Dupuis.
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I should (finally!) finish Black Lamb & Grey Falcon this month; I'm also reading Green Gone Wrong for this month's ColourCAT and Reproducing Gender, an edited volume which I consulted extensively throughout my PhD but never managed to just sit down and read in its entirety. Fiction-wise I'm reading Whatever Happened to Billy Shears?, which isn't normally what I'd even consider picking up, but I know the author, and I'm enjoying it very much.

My current library book is One City, which features Edinburgh-set extended short stories by Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh (and an introduction by JK Rowling).

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Currently reading The Importance of Being Ernestine for MysteryCAT, Turtles All the Way Down for ColorCAT, and The Last Ship just because.

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Skimmed the end of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age which I'm confident was not the author's intent. Have now started Beale Street Dynasty as part of my non-fiction music reading for the year. Also started The Chalk Circle Man which is a mystery full of the most wonderfully eccentric characters.

SO I've finished The Collectors by David Baldacci and while I was at the library to pick up my March Mystery Cat book The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill, I also managed to snag The Immortalists by Cloe Benjamin from the Express 7-day shelf.

I'm struggling to get through Turtles All the Way Down, so I've set it down for a moment and am picking up A Court of Thorns and Roses.

>18 dudes22: - I'll be interested to see what you think of The Immortalists since I just finished it last week.

I started Manhattan Beach yesterday and am flying through it fairly quickly.

Just finished Blood on the Tongue, by Stephen Booth. It was good and I'd probably read another in the series. Next up in bus reading will be Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich, by Stephen Leacock. I have a Stephen theme going, apparently :)

Currently listening to River Secrets by Shannon Hale. This series was big about 10 years ago, but I never got around to finishing it, so I am finally catching up. It's a little younger audience than I usually read, but I'm enjoying it.

Reading Henry Green's Loving for the Colour CAT and Mick Herron's London Rules.

Spent this morning flipping through The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970, by Martin Salisbury. Some lovely illustrations in there. And yes I judged a few by the covers and added them to the TBR list :D

I am just about through Gold Of Our Fathers by Kwei Quartey, this police procedural series is set in Ghana and really immerses the reader in the African culture. I have also picked up Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and I am really enjoying this YA read.

Read Aunt Bessie Finds over the weekend and finished off the rather disappointing Manhattan Beach. Now, I'm on to Blindness by Henry Green for the Color CAT.

>17 LittleTaiko: I'd be very interested to know how Beale Street Dynasty turns out. I bought a copy after visiting Memphis a few years ago but haven't read it yet.

I am reading Sing, Unburied, Sing by Ward (longlisted for the Women's Prize) and Echo in the Bone by Gabaldon (because I am determined to catch up on the series so far).

I just read Faithful Place by Tana French, which was excellent but super intense. I'm now rereading Northanger Abbey as a palate cleanser, and it's just what I needed!

Feeling a bit historical, so I'm reading Bertie and the Seven Bodies, by Peter Lovesey, on the bus. In between I'm reading Simon Garfield's highly interesting look at time, Timekeepers.

I had the good luck to randomly find a really funny audio book this month, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. It just sounded good, and I loved it!

I can't claim this one as read, in that I haven't read each page, but if you see The Lost Words pick it up. It is beautiful.

It's a collaboration between writer and illustrator that was prompted by the decision of the OED to remove these nature words from their children's dictionary on the grounds that they were not relevant to children. They are, therefore, the Lost Words of the title. Each word is presented as an acrostic to summon up the spirit of the animal, bird or plant that is being explored. The texts have humour, drama and emotion running through them. The art work is simply beautiful. Not all the same type of image either, they also cover a wide range, some of them very simple, others dramatic, some very still some quite threatening.

I went to an exhibition of some of the acrostics and the accompanying images today. In a size even larger than the book, they have such detail. I'd have come away with the book it if wasn't oversized and I'd have had to carry it (and everything else) home on the train. This one will be on my wishlist and I thoroughly recommend it.

I am about to start The Accidental by Ali Smith and I am well into Wobble To Death a historical mystery by Peter Lovesey.

>33 DeltaQueen50: Yay, Wobble to Death! :)

I finished two books today: The Slitheen Excursion, by Simon Guerrier (a Doctor Who novel); and the audiobook of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene (read by Colin Firth).

>34 rabbitprincess: RP, the theme for the March Reading Through Time Challenge is to read something sporty and I remembered that I picked this one up after I read about it on your thread. I am enjoying it alot.

I'm reading Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston. It's a fun read so far, although I do have some problems with it. I'm interested to see how everything will turn out!

Finally getting back to Beale Street Dynasty which has been good so far. Also reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist and And Ladies of the Club.

I just finished This Love Story Will Self-Destruct by Leslie Cohen, which I wasn't a big fan of. Now I've begun Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith -- hoping to finish it by the end of the month!

I'm reading The Hush which I'm not enjoying. I'm surprised at this because I love John Hart's books. Maybe it's because of the supernatural element or the fact that it features characters from The Last Child which I think I read about five years ago.

Finished an enormous hardback book about the history of the Daleks: Doctor Who: Dalek, by George Mann and others.

I'm reading Lincoln in the Bardo.

I am hoping to finish up A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers today upon which I will be starting The Queen of Attolia. I also just picked up Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama and although only 12 pages in, I have been drawn into the story set in 1920's China already.

>42 DeltaQueen50:

I too just found a second-hand copy of Women of the silk.
I’m always drawn to different cultures and earlier times.

42- Love the Thief series!

I'm reading a couple of books which are not capturing my interest, but I'm really enjoying Dan Jones 's book The Templars. Almost at their dramatic fall.

Just finished another one by Barbara Nadel, this time the first in the series that I intend to keep up: Last Rights.

When I read the fourth book in this series I was won over. This is the series debut about undertaker Francis Hancock, shell-shocked in the first war, now trying to survive the London Blitz in the second. Hancock, whose father was English, his mother (Duchess) Indian, is an appealing, complex character. He feels obliged to investigate a death because he happened to meet the victim in the blackout shortly after his stabbing without realizing it was a mortal injury.

Compared to the first book Sure and Certain Death, there is more in this one about life in war-torn London, more about Hancock's opinion about war and peace, and more about the old-style undertaking business. The plot reflected the mixed ethnicity of London and features a building on Princelet Street now known as Europe's First Museum of Immigration and Diversity. Nadel's sense of time and place is excellent. As the first book in a series it was excellent and I intend to keep reading.