Well I was pleased to manage to finish 10 books last month, well up on February’s low total, and it might have had something to do with having a short holiday but whatever. I even got some books off the physical TBR as well as reading a Kindle book or two.
Note: I haven’t reviewed them all yet. I have one that’s gone to Shiny New Books to be published there and one short book I read at the weekend that I will review with a COMPETITION! tomorrow.
I’m currently reading Sara Marcus’ “Girls to the Front”, from the oldest bit of the TBR, which is a history of the Riot Grrrl movement and very good and well done so far, and “Holding up the Universe” by Jennifer Niven, which is a YA book I picked off the very end of the TBR and features a boy with prosopagnosia. I took that off the shelf because I ran quite a long way today and needed something easy but it’s pretty engaging so far.
Next up are these two: Caroline Criado Perez’ “Invisible Women” which as we probably all know by now is that book about how data and the world are biased against women, and my April 2019 Iris Murdoch, “Henry and Cato” which is a kind of odd one about inheritance and imprisonment (of various kinds) which I feel suffers a little from coming just before a slew of amazing ones.
I’m still really sad I won’t be able to go to the Iris Murdoch Society Conference, which I’ve attended every other year (ish) since 2008, but it clashes with one of the only other big things in my year, my ultramarathon! But it’s been wonderful re-reading all her novels in order, even if I don’t agree with my former self on some of them!
I’m continuing with my policy of reading a book from the oldest part of the TBR and a book from the newest, then a Kindle book. I shared my new Kindle reads the other day and I imagine I’ll be picking up one of the unread ones of those when it’s e-book time.
I’m a bit desperate to get to both sets of these, so I’d better get reading, hadn’t I!
What are your April reading plans? Will you have time over Easter for a good wallow in a pile of books?
Cathy746books
Apr 01, 2019 @ 19:49:01
Girls to the Front sounds brilliant Liz.
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Liz Dexter
Apr 02, 2019 @ 08:43:22
It’s really good, we forget it was its whole own feminist movement as well as a music genre and she really weaves both together.
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kaggsysbookishramblings
Apr 01, 2019 @ 19:50:53
Frankly if I don’t wallow in books soon I shall go mad!! Not many plans for April apart from the 1965 Club and catching up with the reading a bit…
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Liz Dexter
Apr 02, 2019 @ 08:43:49
I will have a look to see if anything from 1965 is in the TBR but I have to concentrate on that. Hope you get some wallows in!
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Tredynas Days
Apr 02, 2019 @ 06:02:28
Feeling despondent about events in the UK, not making plans. Need cheering up, and Mrs TD points out most of what I read is depressing…
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Liz Dexter
Apr 02, 2019 @ 08:44:06
Time to pull some comfort reading off the shelf?
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heavenali
Apr 02, 2019 @ 16:44:22
I also read 10 books in March. Looking at your newest books I also have Mrs Martell and Henry by Elizabeth Eliot and The Call. I’m planning on reading for the 1965 club, and the LT event. Currently reading Pamela Hansford Johnson on my kindle. It’s over 400 pages which I hadn’t known before starting, I then need to read my book group read.
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Liz Dexter
Apr 07, 2019 @ 17:48:52
I am looking forward to those Elizabeth Eliots, I have to say! that is a long one but i’m sure you’ll get your book club one done, too, as it’s so good!
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buriedinprint
Apr 06, 2019 @ 21:58:46
The Little Ottleys is new on your stack and a long-lingerer on mine. I’ve been doing well with concentrating on my own shelves (in balance with my ongoing reliance on the library for newer books) so I’m looking forward to more of that in April. Oh, and Henry and Cato is one of the ones on my shelf. I’ll have to start over the weekend!
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Liz Dexter
Apr 07, 2019 @ 17:49:30
I’ve read the first Ottley so feel I can pick that off and work my way through it quite briskly, and the first one was SO GOOD, too. Looking forward to hearing what you think of Henry and Cato!
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findmeinabookshop
Apr 22, 2019 @ 16:07:22
I keep meaning to read Holding up The Universe, will be glad to hear whether you enjoyed it not as will help me pick it up 🙂
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Liz Dexter
Apr 22, 2019 @ 16:09:12
Yes, I loved it – I reviewed it here https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/book-review-jennifer-niven-holding-up-the-universe/
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