What are you reading March 2018

I'm reading The Power by Naomi Alderman. It won the Bailey's Women's prize for Fiction in 2017 and has had lots of "chat" about it on L.T. I have it as a 7 day express read.

I'm about to read all 5 Canada Reads books in advance of the debates. I'm starting with The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline.

For those interested in Canada Reads, check out the LT group devoted to it. The debates run March 26-29.

I'm reading Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion, by Michael Dupuis.
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I am almost done Police by Jo Nesbo

I'm reading Precious Cargo: My Year Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 by Craig Davidson.

I'm reading Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents by Mark Sakamoto.

I'm reading a mystery by Elly Griffiths Crossing Places. Read about this author on L.T. and enjoying it. I will look for more of her books!

I'm reading The Boat People by Sharon Bala.

>2 LynnB: Thanks for the reminder of when Canada Reads runs! I have been meaning to double check the dates!

The author of this one is Canadian

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest / Wade Davis
3.25 stars

George Mallory made three attempts to summit Everest in the early 1920s. On his third attempt in 1924, he and a young, inexperienced Sandy Irvine went missing, and no one knows whether they made it to the top or not. This book looks at all three attempts, plus the people who were involved, many who also fought in WWI.

I really liked the last 1/3 of the book (4 stars worth), but the first 2/3 were hit or miss for me. There were parts that seemed really good, but they just didn’t hold my interest. Some of the stuff on the war was very well-written, but overall, that part of the book just wasn’t all that great for me. However, in the last 1/3 of the book, which followed the last two attempts at Everest in 1922 and 1924, I was fascinated (as I usually expect to be when reading about Everest!). It is possible (but hard to say for sure) the not-holding-my-attention in the first 2/3 of the book (over 400 pages!) could simply be due to stress in my life at the moment. There were also a lot of people involved, so sometimes I would lose track of who was who.

Just finished Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, by Stephen Leacock. Lots to chuckle over (and at the same time facepalm at, because it's so true).

Next up in bus reading is Bertie and the Seven Bodies, by Peter Lovesey.

Finishing my Canada Reads books with American War by Omar El Akkad.

I'm reading Flying Time by Suzanne North.

I'm reading Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe.

I'm reading Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts.

I'm reading One Thing Stolen by Beth Kephart.

I've been working so much overtime recently that I've been too weary even to read before bed. Lately, I've only managed to finish- and enjoy- a light, romantic novel called Finding Fraser by kc dyer, an homage to Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books, which I am also slowly working my way through-- re-reading those after 25+ years)

I'm reading The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar.

Today I finished Somebody at the Door, by Raymond Postgate.

Small Beneath the Sky / Lorna Crozier
3.5 stars

Lorna Crozier is a poet. She was born in 1948 and grew up in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. This tells of her life, much of it during her childhood. Her family didn’t have a lot of money and her father was an alcoholic.

I liked this. I wasn’t sure at first, as there are short chapters that just seem descriptive, which I guess shows more of her poetic side, but those sections didn’t interest me nearly as much as her life stories. I grew up in Southern Sask, and my dad grew up in Swift Current, so it’s always fun to read about places you know. It’s a short book, and she did skip over a lot of stuff. Overall, though, I did enjoy the parts about her life and the familiar places.

I'm reading Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg.

I'm reading the Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol for a book club.

I just finished a lovely book, a first novel by Jess Kidd, titled Himself. It contains comedy, magic, crime, fantasy and romance, so not my typical crime fiction reading, for sure. The writing is beautiful, lilting and evocative of the Irish countryside.

I'm reading Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer

I'm reading The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens.

Currently reading Return of the Sphinx, by Hugh MacLennan.

A very unsuspenseful suspense lovel, which was a big disappointment for me. Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica

I'm about to start Black Apple by Joan Crate.