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March - What are you planning on reading?
I got a readalong at the end of march for the book Little Men and virals book 4 Exposure comes out then so can't wait to read the next installment of the ya series. I'll figure it out then.
Definitely The Maze Runner but I am really not sure what else I am reading in March. There are just too many must reads out there right now. I am hold for Winter's Tale so whenever that comes up I am reading it. I think it will be April but maybe I will get lucky and I will get it in March. fingers crossed!
I should be finished with Caramelo by then. No plans as of yet, besides having to read quicker. I estimated that I should read a book every 20 days in order to meet my goal of 30 books, and only recently realized it's 12 days instead! I'm a Fine Arts person, that is my excuse. I'm currently a book behind schedule. :(
Aitziber wrote: "I should be finished with Caramelo by then. No plans as of yet, besides having to read quicker. I estimated that I should read a book every 20 days in order to meet my goal of 30 books, and only re..."If you read a couple of quick-reads then you'll catch up; this is what I do.
So living with teenagers I have been told adamantly what needs to be sitting by my bedside for March:
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
We'll see what happens, I had high hopes for Feb. but somehow I wandered and didn't read half the Chick-lit books I had stacked by my bed, so the question is when will those books get finished? Such pressure.
I'm sure this will change, but my anticipated books for March:The Fault in Our Stars
Digital Fortress
The Client
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Oliver Twist (group read)
The Maze Runner (group read)
Great Expectations
Maurice
The Woman in White
Red Dragon
Far from the Madding Crowd (buddy-read)
MaddAddam
I've hardly read anything this months.....so I'm gonna finish The Help and The Time Traveler's Wife first. Then I'm gonna go ahead with the A Song of Ice and Fire series....been waiting to read that one for a long time...!
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I really hope you enjoy them!
Yeah me too!:) And hope u get around to reading them!:)
I planning on reading The Fault in Our Stars, Oliver Twist (or the Classics book read selection) and Wuthering Heights. If I have time, I will probably work on reading a religious sacred text.
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Laura wrote: "I planning on reading The Fault in Our Stars, Oliver Twist (or the Classics book read selection) and Wuthering Heights. If I have time, I will probably work on reading a religious sacred text."All of them are awesome books Laura! You're gonna have so much fun:):)
Count of Monte Cristo took me longer to read than anticipated (great story though) so hopefully I'll finish my planned reading for February in March and try to include the genre challenge too. I've just bought 'the Rosie Project' and it keeps staring at me from the bookcase.
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Finish:
-Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
-Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (audio)
-No Name by Wilkie Collins (audio, reread)
-Orange Is the New Black memoir
-Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Peter Süskind
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower genre
-Northanger Abbey genre
Then:
-Emma by Jane Austen (audio, reread) (Epic Romance) genre
-1Q84 by Haruki Marakami, (50 Bk Challenge)
-1984 by George Orwell, (50 Bk Challenge)
-The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, YA genre challenge
-The Maze Runner by James Dasher, YA genre challenge
I am planning on reading Great Expectations, Catch 22 and There Eyes Were Watching God! That's hoping I finish the 3 I am reading now!
Okay, now that I'm halfway through Caramelo, I can focus on my plans for next month. My tbr list for March is:The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Maurice by E.M. Forster
And if, after all that, I have some time left, I will join the Hardy buddy read with Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. :)
Sandy wrote: "BTW, I hope you will share your thoughts on Maurice. "Absolutely! I am seriously looking forward to reading it. :D
Since I am 3 books behind the schedule of 60 books in an year plan and so not sticking to my monthly list, I hope to finish half of my "Currently-reading titles" which include Bossypants My Family & Other Animals and Switch BitchAfter successfully completing the above I better proceed with the February list
Shreya wrote: "Since I am 3 books behind the schedule of 60 books in an year plan and so not sticking to my monthly list, I hope to finish half of my "Currently-reading titles" which include [book:Bossypants|9418..."I read Bossypants in January and quite liked it. I'm watching 30 Rock now, too. I may even nominate the book for the Humor Challenge month. Enjoy!
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Absolutely! I am seriously looking forward to reading it. :D"
Maurice sounds really interesting. Added to my to-read list!
Waiting for my brother to lend me some of his Star Wars books so I'll be reading through them, assuming they are any good. I tried to read all the Patricia Cornwall books my sister had given me before Christmas. There were about thirty of them. I read the first nine before concluding that Cornwall's books just do nothing for me. I couldn't get into her Wallander books either. I only read half of the first one and it was quite dull.
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Catching Fire
The Jungle Book
Le Petit Prince
Time and Again
The Alienist
Zuleika Dobson
Memoirs of Hadrian
I probably won't stick to that...
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*DISCLAIMER* This list is reliant on my finishing The Count of Monte Cristo by the end of the week - looking more and more unlikely!The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Howards End by E. M. Forster
And if that goes well:
A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow by George R. R. Martin
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Holly wrote: "My planned reading, which hopefully I will stick to considering I've failed miserably at reading this month...Oliver Twist (group read)
The Maze Runner (group read)..."
Holly, how have you found the MaddAddam trilogy? I was contemplating starting it t'other day... but it's only in a huge hardback at my local library with only 2/3 of the books! (I know, the sadists! It's the middle one what's missing, too!) Unsure if I should make the commitment or not.
For some reason I find reading hardbacks really arduous.
(I say for some reason, I know the exact reason. It's the same reason I can't lift my backpack over my head to put in the overhead of trains. Upper body strength fail. There's only so many times you can drop a novel on your face...)
Anyway, I digress! TBR for March:
Finish:
Ship of Magic
Then:
Far from the Madding Crowd (buddy-read)
Possibly even:
Wise Children, if there's time (:
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I'd go for it. The first two books run simultaneously, so you can read them in either order and it doesn't matter :)
Let me know what you think of Howard's End! It's been on my to-read list forever.
I'm reading Howards End this month too - am looking forward to reading your thoughts, Mayme!
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Rocket Girl - The autobiography of America's first female rocket scientist. It is awesome! Can't put it down
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right now I'm still reading Different Seasons by Stephen King and hope to finish eryan soon too so I can get to my other reads.
At the moment I'm slogging my way through some Star Wars books and I just recently bought Two Brothers by Ben Elton, but I can't read that till I've finished the Star Wars ones.
I have read a few star wars books though not the ones you have. How is it going?
Lucy wrote: "I'm reading Howards End this month too - am looking forward to reading your thoughts, Mayme!"I'm almost at the end, and depending on how these last few chapters swing - it could go either way for me, however it was by no means an arduous read! The tension between the haves and the have-nots, the enlightened and dim, etc, really work to pull at my heartstrings. Forster's really good at that. I'd like to see more of the Basts, the working class family, I feel like they've been discounted for a large part of the book - but I'm hopeful for their return before the end.
Have you got your teeth into it yet? What do you think?
Holly wrote: "The MaddAddam trilogy is really good, especially if you like Dystopian books, or Margaret Atwood in general.
I'd go for it. The first two books run simultaneously, so you can read them in either o..."
I've not read as much Atwood as I'd have liked, so yes I'll probably pick this up nextwhen I'm at the library! Doubtful I'll get to it before the month's out, though!
Holly wrote: "...I'd go for it. The first two books run simultaneously, so you can read them in either order and it doesn't matter :)"Thanks for this info about The MaddAddam trilogy. I remember wondering about this back when I read the descriptions because I kind of wanted to jump in at book two.
Taking a week in the north Georgian mountains end of the month and hope to read:
and maybe
I'm still reading different seasons by stephen king and will read 2 ebooks after that then will do the ebook version of little men at the end of the month for a buddy read. Wish me luck! :-)
Sandy, the Giver is great! I've just finished Fahrenheit 451, and it's really given me some food for thought - my book is now full of highlighted quotes and turned down pages - the sign of an appreciated book!
I'm currently reading "the Behaviour of Moths" by Poppy Adams, and it seems to be quite an easy, enjoyable read so far; I need a break from the classics when I come home from work in the evening. That said, I'm also listening to "The Great Gatsby", and I have to say, I'm finding it dire so far. Who knows though, it might turn out to be great.
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Mayme wrote: "Lucy wrote: "I'm reading Howards End this month too - am looking forward to reading your thoughts, Mayme!"I'm almost at the end, and depending on how these last few chapters swing - it could go e..."
Hi Mayme - I've finally finished Howards End (probably way behind you here), and really loved it. I think one of its biggest strengths (but also one of its biggest weaknesses) was its poetry and philosophy. I often found myself pausing at a page for a long while, thinking about the deep questions the characters were raising. Sometimes I loved this, and I found myself as artistically engaged as the Schlegel sisters, but other times this irritated me and I just wanted to get along with the story. I guess this means I have not learnt my lesson about 'connecting' the beast and the monk in myself?
I agree with your comment about the Basts - I found them so tragic and interesting, and would have loved to have seen more of them. I imagine, though, if Forster had given himself free reign to develop them fully the book would have been ten times as long.
My list has slightly changed now, my new list is as follows:The Maze Runner, James Dashner
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer, Ann Rule
Gotta get reading!
Lorah wrote: "Amy wrote: "Sandy, the Giver is great! I've just finished Fahrenheit 451, and it's really given me some food for thought - my book is now full of highlighted quotes and turned down pages - the sig..."
Hi, I'm glad to know that you've gotten to like it - that's given me some hope! I haven't seen the film, and to be honest I wasn't going to bother, but now I'll definitely make a point of watching it, to see if it changes my mind. Although I do think it's still not such a great book if the book alone isn't enough to make us love it!
I still want to read Little Men but got some other books and ebooks to read first before I get to that ebook.
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-No Name by Wilkie Collins (audio, reread)
-Northanger Abbey genre
-1984 by George Orwell,
-The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dasher, YA genre challenge
Finished as unplanned perks:
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
-His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
-The Thousand Nights and One Night, Vol. 1 (audio)
Still Working on:
-Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
-Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (audio)
-1Q84 by Haruki Marakami,
-The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, YA genre challenge
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower (YA genre challenge)
Unexpected Additions:
-The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (audio)
-Me Before You
Saving For Later:
-Orange Is the New Black memoir
-Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Peter Süskind
-Emma by Jane Austen (audio, reread) genre
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Sandy wrote: I see that you are making great progress with your March "to-read" list, Chase. Way to go! It started out strong, but then it wavered a bit at the end.
The Fault in Our Stars
Digital Fortress
Unplanned book reads in March:
Deception Point
The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
And the Mountains Echoed
Pinocchio
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I know a few of us have experienced a massive lull in reading (me definitely included) so hopefully we can pick up the fire again next month!
What is everyone planning on reading in March?