March 2024 Commit to One Book Monthly Challenge

[Jennifer, Moderator]

Hi, everyone! This is the thread for the "Commit to one book monthly" challenge. In this thread, post one book you intend to read in March, so everyone else can see your pick. When you finish reading it, we'd love for you to come back and post your opinion. I expect everyone's TBRs to suffer because of this monthly reading challenge, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. Are you? :-D

[Bill, Moderator]

I have already started it but I think it'll require some focus so my Commit book for March will be The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs by Ursula K. Le Guin

Completed 21 Mar, 4.0 stars

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

[Jennifer, Moderator]

. I was a teenager in Merritt Island, Florida, which sits between Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral and Cocoa proper, and I used to watch early shuttle launches from our front yard. So I'll read this.

[Bonnie]

Ink Blood Sister Scribe for me, because I'm also reading it for the cover color challenge and my annual 12 + 4 challenge.

[Pam]

I'm going to commit to reading The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. My library hold just came in. It's huge - 656 pages! I don't usually read books this long but I'm going to give it a try. It was short-listed for the Booker Prize and I've heard a lot of good reviews.

[Bonnie]

Bonnie wrote: "Ink Blood Sister Scribe for me, because I'm also reading it for the cover color challenge and my annual 12 + 4 challenge."

Well I ended up getting this one early on libby and finished it, so may pick another for March later.

My 4 star review: Hard to review a book I almost DNF but ended up loving. The first (almost) half is confusing. New POV chapters with no idea how they tie into the sister's story. I skimmed through many chapters. Then once I realized who they were and how they fit in the story, had to go back and reread stuff. So, the organization IMO was not great for half the book, but the actual novel, world, characters and storyline by the end was excellent.

[Jennifer, Moderator]

Bonnie wrote: "Hard to review a book I almost DNF but ended up loving. ."

Huh. That is an odd trajectory!

[Bonnie]

I'll commit to another book (also reading it for the genre challenge and moderator's choice Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

[Lance]

I’ll commit to this one that I also chose for the monthly genre: This Never Happened: The Mystery Behind the Death of Christy Mathewson

[Eileen]

5 stars so good

[Vikki, Moderator]

[Jennifer, Moderator]

Finished —

It was riveting and extraordinarily moving.

[Jackie]

While trying to update the challenges I am doing, I realized that I didn't choose a book for this challenge. I'm going with a book from my chiropractor which actually turned out to be interesting.

I gave it 4 stars.