VT Christian Reading Challenge discussion

They say March “comes in like a Lion, and goes out like a lamb.” Is that true in your neck of the woods?

March DID turn out to be a good reading month here! I have a few books I’m trying to finish up before I reevaluate the stack of TBR. The only issue is that I keep adding to it (quite literally, I just went to the library!). How do you all prioritize books? On a whim? Through your challenge prompts? On a recommendation? Every time I try to discipline myself I inevitably go against myself to read a different book. I’m afraid I tend to start many more than I finish!

Anyway, what books do you have going right now?

Where the Crawdads Sing
Historical Christianity: The Ancient Communal Faith
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Power of the Esther Effect: Keys to Success in Marriage, Family, Career, Business and the Community for Every Her Where Heart Matters
The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
I Was A Stranger: A Christian Theology of Hospitality

Keeping the list short this month:
Finish:
12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
Read:
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
Before the Ever After
Start:
Hope and Comfort in the Book of Job
For the rest, I'm just going to go with whatever grabs my attention.

Christabelle wrote: "They say March “comes in like a Lion, and goes out like a lamb.” Is that true in your neck of the woods?

My dad taught it to me that March would either come in like a Lion and go out like a Lamb or it would come in like a Lamb and go out like a Lion.

Currently reading:

Paul, a Biography, by NT Wright

GAH!!! I start too many books at once!!! My goal is to finish a few I've started AND NOT START any new ones till that's done.

Currently reading -
1. Just starting so won't get done this month - I read nonfiction very slowly. Church history in plain language updated 4th edition by Bruce Shelley (3-Dec-2013) Paperback

2. Half way through - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

3. Car audio book with my hubby so it depends on our windshield time - Across Five Aprils

4. Just barely started but got distracted by others so NEED to come back to - 11/22/63

5. Just came up on my Libby Audio so will be my car book for the rest of the month - The Final Empire

You all have lovely books! I enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing. It was recommended to me by a friend so it made it more enjoyable. History in Plain Language is a favorite of mine. I’m rereading it as an audiobook.

Best: The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, by Kate Moore
This is the biography of a Christian woman, Elizabeth Packard, who was committed to an insane asylum in 1860 in Illinois through her husband's efforts.

Worst: Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen
The characters in this stage play are deeply flawed; depression seems to permeate the script.

Surprise: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death, by Maggie O'Farrell
An unusual memoir telling only of the author's brushes with death including a childhood illness and nearly becoming a crime victim. This could have been "best" but Elizabeth Packard's biography impressed me more because she changed the world I live in.

Best: Dwight D. Eisenhower by Relman Morlin. It was a fun ride learning about the last 5 star general.

Worse: The City We Became by N K Jemisin. It is an interesting premise (cities become personified as they grow) but everyone was racist and I was rolling my eyes hard as the characters "develop".

Surprise: Wonder by R J Palacio. I am not sure what I expected but it was an inspiring story about a young boy who is deformed and goes to school for the first time. It was sad seeing the family having no support around them.

Grand total of 2 books read during the month!
Best: Brown Girl Dreaming An autobiography told in verse, some hard topics like death, divorce and racism (segregation is disappearing during her childhood) but ultimately an inspiring read!