When I sat down to first write “March ’10 was…” I suddenly became exhausted by the very idea of it. Not sure why. Could it be that 300+ books later and I am finally losing steam? Am I becoming weary of the process? I wasn’t not sure. This recap was designed to keep myself accountable to the “Fill-in-the-blank Is…” post. Something to check back in with, designed to ask myself, “How does what I really read by the end of the month compare to what I set out to accomplish at the beginning of the month?” Truth be known, it has been fun to see how far off the map my reading has taken me. Titles that were so far off my radar are a joy to remember at month’s end. So, in answer to my own questions – no I don’t think I’m burnt out, losing steam, becoming weary of the process. I think I needed to put it back into perspective…kind of like hiking up that bra strap that has slipped out of place…
- Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban ~ turtles and strange relationships. What’s not to love?
- Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal ~ this should have been a movie
- Jennifer Government by ~ this will be a movie, I swear
- Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam ~ one reporter’s take on the political firestorm and other events that led up to the Vietnam war and beyond…
- An Armful of Warm Girl by William M. Spackman~this was so bizarre…
- King Lear by William Shakespeare ~ classic.
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ~ in honor of Florida becoming a state in the month of March
Here’s something really cool. I started reading Affliction by Russell Banks because it was on my March list (Russell Banks’s birth month) but it’s also on my April list. That means I can continue reading Affliction in April…That doesn’t happen that often.
For LibraryThing and the Early Review Program I was able to finish two books:
- No Instructions Needed: An American Boyhood in the 1950s by Robert Hewitt, and
- The Man From Saigon by Marti Leimbach.
Just a note on The Man From Saigon ~ It was very interesting to read this at the same time as reading a nonfiction about the same topic.
March was also a month of healing, getting sick again, seeing good, good drums, the weather getting warmer…and lots of training walks!
~*LunaSea*~ 