Spring Sprung Titles

What to say about April? I ran my fastest 10k while ill (go figure). I met two new runners and may have convinced someone to at least try. I don’t know where this acceptance to run with others is coming from. To share a conversation I had with someone: I asked where she runs. She replied she doesn’t have my pace, “nowhere near it” were her exact words. I answered I don’t have that pace all the time either. Me & my pace visit from time to time but we don’t make it a thing. She laughed and I saw myself ten years ago talking to someone who face-times with friends while running. I worried about her relationship with pace. But, this blog is turning into a thing different from reading.

So, without further ado, here are the finished books:

Fiction:

• Diplomatic Lover by Elsie Lee – read in one day
• Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez – read in two days
• Celibate Season by Carol Shields and Blanche Howard – read in four days (this book annoyed me and I kept having to put it down)

Nonfiction:

• Lost Upland: stories of the Dordogne Region by W.S. Merwin – confessional: DNF (bored, bored, bored)
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• Henry James: the Untried Years by Leon Edel
• Another Part of the Wood by Kenneth Clark – this was cheeky!

Series continuations:

• “F” is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton (I’m calling this a continuation even though I read “A” a long time ago.)
• Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (AB + print so I could finish on time – today!)
• Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves – another quick read (finished in four days)

Early Review for LibraryThing:

• My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul