March 2012 was huge for reading. I think that’s because some of the books took me a day or two to read. March was also the first month of training for Just ‘Cause. Whenever I talk about training to walk it sounds stupid. I mean really, who trains to put one foot in front of the other? I guess when you put those steps all together and come up with a total of sixty miles over the course of three days it all adds up. Anyway, training (such as it is) is going great. For the month of March I averaged six miles a day, every day. But, this blog is not about walking miles or not. It’s about books. Here’s the Lust list for March 2012:
- A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o in honor of African Writers month
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston in honor of Zora
- Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder in honor of keeping on with the series
- Up Country by Maxine Kumin (read in one afternoon) in honor of March being poetry month (April is the official one)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte in honor of Literature month
- Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose in honor of March having a “Hug a G.I.” day
- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud in honor of Malamud passing in March
- Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien in honor of keeping on with the Lord of the Rings series. I will admit I didn’t finish this.
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler in honor of crime month
- My Antonia by Willa Cather in honor of another classic (this was, by far, my favorite read of the month)
- Lawless Roads by Graham Green in honor of April being the best time to go to Mexico (obviously I jumped ahead a little)
I started an audio book (as is my tradition with trying to train and read at the same time) but the book I chose, Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman was so scratched I couldn’t get beyond disc one. Bummer. Also, for the third time in a row I didn’t receive the Early Review book I was awarded from LibraryThing. So I didn’t end up reading anything for LibraryThing. I was awarded a fourth book…we’ll see if it actually shows up.
So. There it is. The big list of books. Aside from Band of Brothers and Two Towers every other book was really short and easy to buzz through. I doubt April will be so kind.
~*LunaSea*~ 