What are we reading in March?

Happy March, everyone! I'm about 2/3 of the way through Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik, which is proving to be a fun sci-fi romance. What are you reading right now, and what are your plans for this month?

Just finished Ben Macintyre's latest, The Spy and the Traitor, and am planning to start Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, by Lucy Worsley.

Slowly getting through The Pursuit of Love - it's really good, hilarious actually, just not finding enough reading time at the moment.

I’ve started Angel With Two Faces by Nicola Upson.

I am reading Celebrations At Thrush Green by Miss Read, and although she is one of my favorite authors, this book is far from her best. I am also just about to start The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown for March's AlphaKit.

I’ve also finished The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson.

I had thought of starting The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker, but the size of the book (huge) and the size of the print (small) have prompted me to return it to the library unread. Unfortunately, this is the only copy the library has, so if I want a better edition, I'll have to buy it.

In the meantime, I've decided to make my next library read The Man Who Died, by Antti Tuomainen (translated by David Hackston).

I'm splitting my time between The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris and A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams and am quite enjoying both. Oh! I'm also reading Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater by Eddie Shapiro. It's fun to read an interview with a different dame every day.

>8 LittleTaiko: Nothing Like a Dame sounds like fun!

I'm rereading L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle, which is just as lovely and poignant as I remembered.

I'm reading Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, Robert Reich's The Common Good and Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Each of them is OK in its own way, but not exciting.

I watched The White Queen on the SCINE channel last night. It was based on the the book by Philippa Gregory. I have two copies ( guess I need to make a record of ones I have) so I will begin The White Queen by Philippa Gregory today.

I just finished The Bone Mother, which wraps up my project to read Shirley Jackson Award winners and short-listed books, at least until this year's list is announced. (I didn't read all of them, but I read as many of the winners as I could source and any of the short lists that caught my interest.)

My next reading project is to read books of 250 pages or less, since my focus has not been the best lately. I got four books from the library yesterday that fit the bill, and will start with The Million by Karl Schroeder.

>9 christina_reads: - It was been very interesting to read the interviews. It's the sort of book where you can just pick out whoever you want to read about that day without having to read in order. I started with Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel and then went to the beginning.

Trying to squeeze in one last book before Lent begins -- A Rogue of Her Own by Grace Burrowes. I've decided to read only books about religion and spirituality during Lent, so I'm giving up all other types of (non-work) reading.

I’ve just finished Headhunters by Jo Nesbo which is a novel he wrote before the Harry Hole series. I’m also reading Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon which is the first book in her Guido Brunetti series that takes place in Venice.

I've read Cold is the Grave by Peter Robinson, an Inspector Banks mystery that enjoyed a lot. Also read Point Blanc: the graphic novel by Anthony Horowitz, Antony Johnston, & illustrations by Kanako & Yusuru and can safely say this is the first graphic novel I've really enjoyed. GNs are just not for me, I forget to look at the illustrations.

I am currently reading The Double by Jose Saramago, and although I hate how the author very rarely finishes a sentence and instead runs on and on, I am finding the story very interesting and I am looking forward to finding out how this is going to work out. I am also reading The Dress Shop of Dreams a romance guided by magical realism.

Just finished Sense and Sensibility graphic novel version. I found the tiny print difficult to see, and did not really care for the art style used. I got more muddled up trying to keep the characters straight than when I read the novel or listened to the audio version. It was fun to read though, a little diversion. My husband got a great kick out of seeing me read a "comic book" as he said. 3.5 stars

I'm reading The Witchfinder's Sister, and enjoying it, but it's quiet enough that I keep on wandering into other books. Finished Micah today, and expecting to start The Last Policeman later.

Yee haa, I finally finished A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel! That's been on the go for a while :)

Currently reading Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis.

I finished The Pursuit Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford - two gems! And started Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks, which is a big space opera, and I'm enjoying getting to know the characters.

I finished a couple of short books--The Million and The Only Harmless Great Thing, and I have started Bedfellow by Jeremy C. Shipp

Two finishes for NetGalley--Me For You and A Deadly Feast. Very different reads, but each quite enjoyable.

This morning I started The Locked Room, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (translated by Paul Britten Austin).

I finished This was a Man: the final volume of the Clifton Chronicles by Jeffery Archer that I loved, Summer of '69 by Todd Strasser another good one this time an Early Reviewer win, and In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time by Anna Porter also excellent. It's been a good week.

I'm currently reading Best of Women's Short Stories 3 an audiobook with fabulous narration by Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter (maybe others). And I've just started The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly, which looks very promising.

Now that I'm back from vacation, my reading has really slowed down. But I'm trying to finish up The Wife by Meg Wolitzer and Dilly of a Death by Susan WIttig Albert. I found The Wife on the take-it/leave-it shelf on vacation and thought I'd read it because of all the buzz about the movie.

I am reading Legend by Marie Lu, which so far, hasn't really grabbed me and I am just about to start Tales From the City by Armistead Maupin.

I've just started Killers of the Flower Moon.

I've started Helter Skelter, a book about the Charles Manson murders. So far I find it interesting, but really overloaded with too much details. I really do not care to know the names of all the detectives on each crime scene, for instance. So many details make the book a bit confusing (and too long).

I'm about to start God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith by Robert Sarah, a cardinal of the Catholic Church, and Nicolas Diat.

Very excited to start The Way of All Flesh, by Ambrose Parry.

I'm reading The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery, and LOVING it!

>33 rabbitprincess: Isn't it just lovely?!

>34 christina_reads: I devoured it in a day! So good!

I am reading a charming YA story, The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson and just about to start Half a War by Joe Abercrombie.

I'm reading The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. This is a nonfiction book about various people having neural or brain problems that affect their lives in a very strange way, for instance not being able to "see" faces or not recognizing one of their legs. The book is written in a very humane way, with a focus on how this affects the sense of self of those persons.

I'm also re-reading the play Ondine by Jean Giraudoux which is a fantastic play full of poetry.

I finished Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, a short and odd novel by Barbara Comyns. I'm currently reading The Crime Writer, a novel about Patricia Highsmith, and Spinster for the CalendarCAT.

I'm finally reading a series everyone else was reading a few years ago, The Chronicles of St. Mary's. I'm currently up to the third book, A Second Chance.

I'm almost finished Broken Bone China, I wish that Drayton could whip me up a special blend to face the work week! I'm also reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Last night I started Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy L. Sayers. I'd borrowed a copy from the library and then discovered it was on Faded Page as a public-domain ebook. Good thing too, because I had to return the library copy (it had holds on it and I couldn't renew).

I've started Educated by Tara Westover for my book club next week. I'm also in the middle of The Quilter's Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini for the Calendar Cat this month.

Made very short work of an audiobook in my 2019 Pool: Vengeance of the Stones, by Andrew Smith, read by Richard Franklin and Trevor Littledale.

In the middle of two books: Alone in Berlin and The Vicar of Wakefield. I hope to also start and finish my read for the Scaredy-Kit--but I will probably be late on that one!

Late to post but so far, I've gotten these under my belt:

🐾 The Reptile Room (Series of Unfortunate Events #2; by Lemony Snicket)
🐾 Life After Life (The Todd Family #1 by Kate Atkinson)
🐾 Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (by Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy and, John Jennings)
🐾 Polaris Rising (Consortuim #1 by Jessie Mihalik)
🐾 Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating (by Christina Lauren)
🐾 Sailor Twain or the Mermaid in the Hudson (by Mark Siegel)
🐾 Saga, Volume 1 (by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples)

I'm currently reading:

🐾 The Wide Window (Series of Unfortunate Events #3; by Lemony Snicket)
🐾 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock #3; by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with an Introduction by Mark Gatiss)
🐾The Reign of Edward III (by William Shakespeare)

I've had a very productive reading month and now I hope to finish it out with Kiss Her Goodbye by Allan Guthrie and Disappeared by Francis X. Stork

Two more finished: Till Death Do Us Tart by Ellie Alexander, part of a series featuring the same characters in the town of Ashland, Oregon. I enjoyed the interactions of the characters and the plot twists. I felt as if this one was not as good as the others in the series. The book needed close editing to get rid of typos and word usage errors. The mystery was not wrapped up to my satisfaction--we never found out how the PI was killed, and the evidence was not conclusive as to the perps. Still fun, still like the quirky characters. This one has been on my TBR list for at least a year and has traveled quite a lot in my backpack without being read.

Perilous Pottery by Mildred Abbott, next in the Cozy Corgi series. This one had interesting plot twists, and the same familiar characters found in other books in the series. I liked the book overall, but there are some grammar errors that appear in the other books too, and need to be corrected (my own personal quirkiness, I guess). I also found the interactions between the main character and her new love interest to be annoyingly overdone and mushy. No one is that perfect and beautiful! Love the dog though!

I've started several books but am primarily reading Towards Zero by Agatha Christie and Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum.

I'm not bombarded with library books at the moment, so I'm reading short books from my NOOK, Above the Waterfall and Red Lightning. One fits a BINGO square and one is a PopSugar prompt.

>49 lsh63: I wish I could say the same - all my library holds are coming in at once and when I went to pick them up the "new book" shelf also tempted me with more.

>49 lsh63: Tell me about PopSugar. I am not familiar with that?

I finished off The Wide Window (Series of Unfortunate Events #3; by Lemony Snicket) so I'm on track for completing this series over the course of this year and; after having read Saga, Volume 1 (by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples,) I couldn't wait for Saga, Volume 2-- So I ordered it and devoured _that_ in one sitting! Now, onto Saga, Volume 3 :-)