All About Books discussion

What are you planning to read in March? Anything you're looking forward to?

My plans for March:

finish up from last month:
1. The Conference of the Birds (Attar of Nishapur)
✔ 2. The 39 Steps (John Buchan) ★★★★ (3.5)

very likely:
1. Rubyfruit Jungle (Rita Mae Brown)
✔ 2. Parable of the Sower (Octavia E. Butler) ★★★★ (4.0)
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
✔ 4. Electra (Sophocles) overall ★★★★ (3.5), (for translation ★★★★★ (4.5), for source material ★★★ (3.0))
✔ 5. The Word for World Is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin) ★★★★★ (4.5)

probably:
✔ 1. White Horse (Erika T. Wurth) ★★★★★ (4.5),
2. The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
✔ 3. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Fyodor Dostoevsky) ★★★★ (4.0),

possibly:
1. The Sentence (Louise Erdrich)
2. Queen of Sorcery (David Eddings)
3. Dead Silence (S.A. Barnes)
4. Brick Lane (Monica Ali)

unplanned:
✔ 1. Patriotism (Yukio Mishima) ★★★ (3.5),

No specific plans for me - I am just starting to ease myself back into GR. I do plan to try to make the most of my Kindle Unlimited trial as I am not expecting to continue it (I dislike paying for what is essentially a lending library). So I will probably be continuing with the Murderbot series with Rogue Protocol and perhaps Exit Strategy.

A couple of your 'very likely' books look appealing, Greg - especially the Le Guin! Maybe I will see if it is available to me :)

I actually have a couple of Buchan books on my Kindle that I have been meaning to get to. The Dancing Floor I believe is the next up - 3rd book in the Leithen series - though I might go back and reread the first 2 since it has been a while. I loved the Richard Hannay series (which you are starting with The 39 Steps) and of course the Hitchcock film version.

Leslie wrote: "No specific plans for me - I am just starting to ease myself back into GR. I do plan to try to make the most of my Kindle Unlimited trial as I am not expecting to continue it (I dislike paying for ..."

Leslie!!!!! So good to "see" you! :)

I went through a long period where I was on Goodreads hardly at all (and for some of that time, I wasn't reading much either), but I've come back too.

I'm enjoying The 39 Steps quite a bit. It's a book from its era with the paranoia about a Jewish cabal in the beginning, but it's still a fun, engaging, and fast moving read. I will probably continue the series at some point.

It feels a little blasphemous to say as it's a universally acknowledged film classic, but I've always preferred some of Hitchcock's other films. It could just be that I went into it knowing nothing and had been expecting a thriller rather than a spy conspiracy. This is my first time reading the actual book, and my expectations lined up better.

I definitely want to read the Murderbot series at some point. Several offline and online friends have recommended it to me, and I have a soft spot for fantasy and SF.

Greg wrote: "... It feels a little blasphemous to say as it's a universally acknowledged film classic, but I've always preferred some of Hitchcock's other films. It could just be that I went into it knowing nothing and had been expecting a thriller rather than a spy conspiracy. This is my first time reading the actual book, and my expectations lined up better...."

To each his own, as the saying goes. Maybe once you've finished the book you should try it again. Both the book and the film would be unsatisfying to people (such as my nephews) who are too rooted in today but I know you have the capacity to go back in time in your imagination :)

And thanks for the welcome back. During my absence I have been mostly rereading, I guess in an attempt to be sure that I would enjoy the books (safety and comfort reads).

I'm a mood reader so who's to say... But my plan so far:

finish:
Die Wahrheit über Eva: Die Erfindung der Ungleichheit von Frauen und Männern
Fake Facts: Wie Verschwörungstheorien unser Denken bestimmen
The Nineties
Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?
Wüstenblume

definitely:
The Vanishing Half
Rogue

maybe:
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
The Right to Sex
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Kati wrote: "I'm a mood reader so who's to say... But my plan so far:

finish:
Die Wahrheit über Eva: Die Erfindung der Ungleichheit von Frauen und Männern
[book:Fake Facts: Wie Verschwörungsthe..."

“A mood reader” I think I need to borrow that description Kati!

Here’s my March intentions:

To finish
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures
Nine Princes in Amber
Diary of an Invasion
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

To make good progress in :
Little Dorrit
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
Bibliomaniac
Confessions of a Bookseller
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

Actually finished:

I plan to listen to some audiobooks I've "in stall":
Holly Jackson As Good As Dead
Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the Sandbank
Nita Prose The Maid
Robert Hellenga Love, Death & Rare Books

I will definitely read those following, since I've got presentation and/or Group Reads in my library:
Sara Durantini Annie Ernaux. Ritratto di una vita
Tove Ditlevsen Youth
Tove Ditlevsen Gift

A part from those I hope to have time this month - but I have too many things to do, so I don't really know how much free time to read I'll have a part from those titles above - to read at least some of these:
Louise Penny The Madness of Crowds
Winston Graham Ross Poldark
Joyce Maynard Labor Day
Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice