March! What are you reading?

[Rowan]

Aw but Syl...I'm sooooo lazy particularly when it comes to reading.

For those that liked Cinder...the second in the series is out....Scarlett. It's next on my pile to read.

[Bugsy]

I'm about 80% through listening to "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern. It is fabulous so far. I haven't read such a unique and imaginative book in ages.

I'm also a few chapters through "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama. It's oldish, obviously, but it's decent.

"Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" came in at the library, so I need to go get it tomorrow. I'll probably put Obama's on hold so that I can finish this one quickly.

[Sílvia]

Silly Ro.... I meant don't be lazy to google stuff...

[Rowan]

Blush, I love that you have emergency paperbacks. I do too. I use them when I travel and just leave them about....

Started Scarlett (2nd in the Cinder/Lunar series). It's good. Unfortunately I've forgotten a lot of Cinder....

[Annie]

I finished "Boys Adrift" (non-fiction about development of boys in America today). Interesting stuff.

Now I'm starting "The Highly Sensitive Child" (self-explanatory) and probably "So Much For That" by Lionel Shriver.

[mellenhead]

Started Scarlett (2nd in the Cinder/Lunar series). It's good.

I went to the library last night because I got a notice Cinder and a few other books were on the hold shelf. I get there and it's not at my library but one like 1.5 hours away because I selected the wrong location when I added it to my hold list. I'm so annoyed with myself.

So now I have to add it again and wait. On the plus side, Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell *was* there and it's so good.

[Rowan]

Still reading Scarlet. I don't have much time to read lately and that makes me

[mellenhead]

Vampires in the Lemon Groves is SO SO good. It's by Karen Russell, who wrote Swamplandia!. I don't even like short stories and I loved this book. I'm actually still thinking about some of them. Highly recommended.

I tried to read the Autobiography of Us but it's not really grabbing me.

I'm now halfway through When did I get like this? The screamer, the worrier, the dinosaur-chicken-nugget buyer and other moms I swore I'd never be by Amy Wilson. It's pretty funny.

[Rowan]

mellen, I didn't like Swamplandia. Maybe the only person on the planet. Do you think that's a prerequisite to Lemon Groves?

Finished Scarlett at lunch today. It took a bit to get into this one (about halfway) but I did enjoy it. Did a little digging Book 3 is Cress (Rumpelstiltskin) and Book 4 Winter (Snow White). M guess that Winter was about Snow White...never even occurred to me!

Not sure what's next. Reading has been so slow lately....

[Bugsy]

I finished listening to "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern--really liked this. I read some online criticism that she broke the cardinal writing rule of "show don't tell," and I guess that is true...but it was still such an inventive idea for a novel that I really liked it a lot. Great book.

And I also just finished "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" and didn't much care for it. It was all right but just didn't seem to make a lot of sense at the end, and it seemed like it finished before it should have too. So many book endings are disappointments.

[mellenhead]

Rowan, no I don't think so. I loved her writing in these stories. Whimsical, yet creepy, haunting but refreshing....definitely off the beaten path. There are quite a few of the stories that I just keep turning over in my mind.