What are you reading March, 2016

[Britany]

Finished by Nicholas Sparks-- 2 Stars.

My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Robin]

March has been a great reading month! Finished My Name Is Lucy Barton and What Belongs to You both excellent reads.

Now on to American Housewife: Stories.

[Nadine in California]

I tried to read The Art of Fielding for a book club but couldn't force myself past page 200. It's gotten so many awards, nominations and Goodreads stars, I feel like I must be reading a different book! My problem is that the characters and even the college itself feel like one dimensional stereotypes. Gay character, check. Hot Mess Girl, check. Big, loveable Galoot, check. Aw Shucks Hero, check. It's a very fast, smooth read, but I didn't feel like I was getting anything out of it. Felt more like a TV drama series. In contrast I just started The Turner House and after just 25 pages in, I feel like the characters (and there are many) have so much depth, even though I don't really know them yet. Maybe it's because Flournoy doesn't describe or explain them, she just lets them live. Or if she does describe and explain, she's done it so deftly I didn't even notice.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Nadine wrote: "I tried to read The Art of Fielding for a book club but couldn't force myself past page 200. It's gotten so many awards, nominations and Goodreads stars, I feel like I must be readi..."

I couldn't get into this one either. Plus the copy i got from the library smelled Ike French fries, so I would get hungry and distracted.

[Sue]

She's one of my favorites! I loved May We Be Forgiven. Have you read Music for Torching? It was the first of hers I read - a dark and funny story of suburban dystopia.

Matt wrote: "I am currently reading May We Be Forgiven. I can't quite put my finger on why I like AM Homes writing style is so much."

[Nadine in California]

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I tried to read The Art of Fielding for a book club but couldn't force myself past page 200. It's gotten so many awards, nominations and Goodreads stars, I feel like ..."

In two more years it will feel like french fries too ;)

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm reading The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu by Kira Salak, possibly the most fearless person I know of. (Last year I read her book on her solo trek across Papua New Guinea, Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea.) This is the second book I've read about Mali and Timbuktu; over the weekend I finished The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer.

[Terry]

Currently reading "The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)

[Robin]

I thoroughly enjoyed the grimy, gritty story Eileen. Moved from that, to Room, a fascinating read. Just finished fabulous short story The Yellow Wallpaper. What a great reading month March has been for me! :)

[Hannah]

Recently finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society on audio (amazing!). I am now listening to The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (one of my favorite authors), read by Juliet Stephenson, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, read by Stephen Fry!

[Robin]

Just finished by Helen Ellis. Loved it.

[Sue]

I think I may have followed Eileen with Room as well. Read them very close together, anyway, and enjoyed both!

Robin wrote: "I thoroughly enjoyed the grimy, gritty story Eileen. Moved from that, to Room, a fascinating read. Just finished fabulous short story [book:The Yellow Wallpaper|82172..."

[Gerald]

Yesterday finished listening to Brooklyn. Disappointing ending but a great narration. Today listening to Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death .

[Jen]

Finished the audiobook of A Little Life yesterday (holy crap it was good, I stayed in my car to hear the last 8 minutes and couldn't get out of my car for another 20. One of the best books I've ever read and masterfully performed on audio). Am reading Turner House on ebook and listening to The Sellout now to catch up with the Tournament of Books. Also am reading Chris Pavone's The Travelers in hard copy as well (just came in from the library).

[Jan]

Last day of March: About two weeks ago I finished Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn, by Amanda Getner. This book is a hilarious, amazing, and unusual memoir by a science writer who literally lied her way into her career, arriving with absolutely no appropriate training or preparation other than a curious mind and a terrific (smart) dad. This book can't be read for its physics content by such as I without frequent reference to the glossary so artfully written by Gefter and included at the back of the book. But it CAN, without recourse to a glossary, be read as a great story of a young woman stumbling into an incredible profession. Gefter brings a hilarious sense of humor to the topic of theories from physics regarding the origins of the universe.

[Nadine in California]

Just finished The Turner House - I tend to gravitate away from family stories, but I'll rethink that after reading this. Deserves all the high praise and then some. I read it at the same time as The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and they are a perfect complement - two great books made even greater together.

[Teresa]

Bitch Planet Vol. 1, The Walking Dead Book 9, Trinity: A Graphic History of the Atomic Bomb, Prisoner B-3087, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Between Shades of Gray