Tried to get into Heaven and Earth Grocery Store but so far it's just schmaltzy character study - ? Bor-ing. for book club.

Tossed it aside for The Wager true story of Lord Byron's misadventures at sea... written by same author as Killers of the Flower Moon.

Def some action here -

I just read The Gifted School, which was ok. Readable and not very demanding. Which is sort of what I needed after being in a little bit of a reading lull. It is about yuppie parents in a fictionalizes Boulder, Colorado, freaking out about trying to get their 11 year olds into a new magnet school for gifted children.

Recently read The House in the Cerulean Sea (loved it - so sweet, feel good book). I’m on the second book in the Beartown series by Fredrik Backman (author of A Man Called Ove) and also really liking these, as well.

Melanie Benjamin's old book Autobiography of Mrs Tom Thumb

The Bee Sting
The House of Doors

Streisand autobiography - so far it is excellent! So much explained and she is not holding back. I'm a fan since I saw Yentl in the movie theater as like an 8 year LOL, I think my husband got me the book the day it came out.

I started last month but took a break when I got off the waiting list for "More - Memoir of an Open Marriage," which took 48 jaw dropping hours to read and now I'm back with Babs.

An ARC of “Hum” by Helen Phillips. It’s quite good!

I’ve gotten quite into reading and reviewing ARCs the past couple of years. It’s really fun. Sometimes I get a gem that blows up 6 months later, and other times (more commonly) I find a gem that doesn’t have a huge publicity machine behind it, so I really try to recommend and promote it. There are soooo many good authors out there that don’t get nearly enough recognition!

And then other times… I’m like eh, this needs work, and then the book wins like every award and I’m completely puzzled.

The good life. It's about how to be happy based on a Harvard longitudinal study.

Currently reading Maame, by Jessica George.

Did anybody see the Irish language film The Quiet Girl? It’s an adaptation of a novella by Claire Keegan called Foster.

I just read the first short story in her new collection, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

It’s brilliant and I couldn’t recommend it more highly.

Astrieant series by Melissa Scott. It’s fantasy murder mysteries basically but the world building is fascinating — she’s constructed a loosely medieval matriarchal culture but the books aren’t about gender at all and the two main characters are actually male. It’s fun and engaging and I enjoy the focus on character growth as well as the mysteries and world building.

I chose to read these because I’ve loved Melissa Scott’s other work. I picked up the first two on thrift books then ordered the remaining three from politics and prose.

I plan to read Anita De Monte Laughs Last. Liked the author’s previous book and the Goodreads reviews on this one are good.

I am not usually dabbling in so many books but here goes. Some of these I reported in Feb and still haven’t finished.

Frankenstein - hard copy that I think my husband brought into our house that he owned before we got married. It’s ok - I’m trying to force myself to read a classic.

Spare - audiobook - got on a free Amazon trial for Audible (which I did not continue after the 3 free credits) - I think it’s kind of boring.

North by Scott Jurek - kindle ebook- I run and a friend recommended it to me about 2.5 years ago. My library didn’t carry it on Libby and I bought it with Amazon digital rewards credits a couple of years ago and finally getting around to reading it. I like it so far.

I just finished All We Were Promised, a fictional account runaway slaves and free Blacks in Philadelphia in the 1830s. It had lots of interesting historical details about the abolitionist movement that I did not learn in US History. It was an ARC and publishes in early April.

I just finished "Someone Else's Shoes" by Jojo Moyes.

It was about two women in London who accidentally swap each other's gym bags at a gym in London. Which subsequently has profound effects on each other's lives.
It was also about the power of female friendships.

I thought it was excellent. Maybe even better than the author's most famous book, which is called "Me Before You".

I downloaded the book via my library Libby / Overdrive website and I picked that particular book to read because I like that author and the book happened to be available at the time I was looking on my library website for something new to read.

What is everyone reading this month?
What is it about?
What do you think of it?
Why did you pick that particular book to read?
How did you acquire the book?