Library Week and the April Reads

Yes, it is now April 4th and I am just getting to this. April is slowly becoming one of those coulda, woulda months. I was supposed to run nine miles on Sunday. Instead, I had Easter dinner with the family and chilled out. I could have run on Monday but it snowed and I had Cairo. Coulda, shoulda, woulda, didn’t. April is supposed to he a half marathon (and you can see how well the training is going) and a 10k one week later. Here are the books:

Fiction:

• Amber Beach by Elizabeth Lowell – in honor of Lowell’s birth month being in April.

Nonfiction:

• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers – in honor of April being the month Louisiana was founded.
• Bogey Man by George Plimpton – in honor of the PGA tour.
• Corner by David Simon – in honor of Maryland becoming a state in April.
• Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski – in honor of April being Math, Science, and Technology month.

Series continuations:

• Venus Throw by Steven Saylor – to continue the series started in March for Saylor’s birth month.
• Charmed by Nora Roberts – to continue the series started in February for Valentine’s Day.

Poetry:

• New and Collected Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz – to continue honoring Poetry Month
• A Few Figs From Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay – see above.
• “Wild Geese” by Edna St. Vincent Millay – see above.

If there is time:

• To the Is-Land by Janet Frame – in honor of Anzac Day in New Zealand.
• Jargoon Pard by Andre Norton (I had to request this one through interlibrary loan so I’m not sure it will be read in time to be in the April category.