April 2012 was a few days ago. Yup. Late again. I have been busy and not just with the personal stuff. There has been some Challenge related stuff going on as well. For starters, I needed to put together a plan for implementing the additional 1,698 books Book Lust To Go would add to my Lust Challenge list (damn you, Hub!). I needed to figure out a) how to evenly spread all 1,698 books out over 12 months, b) what reasons would I give to the new assortment of books and, c) find the time to organize it all. I’m not finished, but I think I’ve figured it all out. It looks like each month will have 350-400 books and I’ll be reading in honor of annual festivals and historical events, as well as national holidays. It should be pretty interesting.
But, enough about all that – Here is the list of books read for the month of April:
- John Barleycorn by Jack London ~ read in honor of Alcohol Awareness month
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser ~ read in honor of Food month
- The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald ~ read in honor of Humor Month
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier ~ read in honor of the Civil War
- Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien ~ read to finish the series (confessional: I didn’t get through the whole thing)
- These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder ~ read to finish the series
What else? I read The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy by David Halberstam (not scheduled) and Longitude by Dava Sobel (also not scheduled). I also read Small Fortune by Rosie Dastgir for LibraryThing and the Early Review Program. I tried to listen to an audio book while I trained for the Just ‘Cause walk but it skipped so bad I gave up and started watching Natalie videos instead.
April was National Poetry Month so I tackled the following poems:
- “House of Blue Light” by David Kirby
- “Ithaca” by Constantine Cavafy
- “Happiness” by Jane Kenyon
- “America To Me” by Henry Van Dyke
- “Golden Retrievals” by Mark Doty
- “Tortures” by Wislawa Szymborska
- “Unexplorer” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “True Love” by Wislawa Szymborska
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