March was all about running. I seemed to be obsessed with a certain 10k and added four extra books about running to the list. Now, April is almost here and I have turned my attention to a certain 60 mile walk I have at the end of next month (my 6th year participating in Just ‘Cause!!). The only difference is, this time I won’t be adding any books about walking or breast cancer to my list. After five years of doing this 60 mile walk I think I have it down. Reading is a different story all together (pun totally intended).
Here are the many, many books that are on the list for this April:
- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin*
- Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink…yes, I’m STILL reading this!
- House of Morgan by Ron Chernow -This, you might remember, was planned for April 2013 and I selfishly decided to put it off a year. Such a coincidence since I read another Chernow last February.
- Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith ~ the last Ballantyne book of the series
- Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
- War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~ this finishes my reading of Lindbergh’s diaries.
- Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley (maybe. This book is not in ly library system so I had to place an interlibrary loan)
- “Aftermath” ~ a poem by Siegfried Sassoon
- “Romance” ~ a poem by W.J. Turner
Here is the rest of year eight:
- Andorra by Peter Cameron (November)
- Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen (November)
- Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (July)
- Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser (May)
- Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman (September)
- Beaufort by Ron Leshem* (November)
- Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh (August)
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks* (June)
- Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (July)
- Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall (September)
- Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (May)
- Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (October)
- Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams (August)
- Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney (November)
- Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (October)
- Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall (June)
- Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (July)
- Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler (June)
- Eye of the World by Robert Jordan* (October)
- Faith Fox by Jane Gardam* (July)
- First Man by Albert Camus (June)
- Fordlandia by Greg Gandin (August)
- Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee (August)
- Grass Dancer by Susan Power (November)
- Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (July)
- History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (September)
- In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (October)
- Inside Passage by Michael Modselewski (June)
- Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating (May)
- Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott* (May)
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (August)
- Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch (August)
- Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan (May)
- Raw Silk by Janet Burroway (September)
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro* (August)
- Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart (June)
- Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (September)
- You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart (November)
*Planned as audio books
FINISHED:
- After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow*
- Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith
- Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
- Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
- Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
- Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
- Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
- Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
- Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley – This finishes the Vera Wright Trilogy
- Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman – This is something I tried to listen to as an audio two years ago. The cds were so scratched I gave up.
- It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
- Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
- Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
- Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
- Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
- Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
- Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
- Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
- Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
- Run or Die by Kilian Jornet
- Running for Mortals by John Bingham
- Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
I found my second “impossible to find” book. Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy. Several libraries across the country own it but are unwilling to share it. It was wildly popular in Australia in the 1950s, but not so anymore…to the point that no one will lend it without changing a fee. Bummer.
~*LunaSea*~ 