Yes, we still have a full week left in March, but today is What’s on Your Nightstand Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Books. (Am I the only one who would find it both more enjoyable and easier to remember if this happened on the last Tuesday of each month instead of the fourth?!? Hint, hint. 🙂 )
Here’s what I’ve read and reviewed since last month’s Nightstand:
- Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs
- Fruitlands by Gloria Whelan
- The Fringe Hours by Jessica N. Turner
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Undone by Michelle Cushatt
- The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
March’s headlines at the House of Hope have been these: “Mama Has Been Very, Very Sick,” followed by “Recuperation Has Taken Longer Than Expected.” I think I’ll always associate certain books with the Evil Twin Sister of the Flu that struck me down mid-March. I am thankful for one thing among a few regarding The Sickness, though: it gave me much-needed downtime, which in turn gave me a chance to get through a long book much more quickly than I ever would’ve been able on our normal schedule. That book is All the Light We Cannot See, and I loved it. Really, though, I haven’t read a book I didn’t enjoy this month. Seeing as we still have a week left in the month (ahem), I’m calling it a great reading month, with The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer and Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes, as well as a few nonfiction titles I’m dabbling in, all still in the works.
Next month will be busy, with all of our weekly activities ending the third week of the month or so. We’ll see how things go on the reading front. I certainly don’t wish to be sick again, just to afford me more reading time–let me make that abundantly clear! 🙂 Here are a few things I hope to get to:
- A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken for my Birthday Project .
- Pick back up with The Prince and the Pauper via audiobook and FINISH IT–Bad weather and sickness have totally derailed my walking out-of-doors (and, truth be told, my cooking indoors, which are the two times I listen to audiobooks). However, I have a new lease on life this week because it is SPRING BREAK (!!!) and Steady Eddie is off work. I have set a goal for myself to walk five miles this week, and I plan to spend those miles listening to this book. 🙂
- Finish Quiet by Susan Cain for the TBR Pile Challenge.
- Something (or things) for my own Newbery Through the Decades Challenge. Come back next Wednesday, April 1, to find out what!
Beyond this, I can’t say. I still like to leave a little wiggle room for whim reading.
As always, come back on Thursday to find out what I’ve been reading aloud!
What’s on Your Nightstand?
I absolutely MUST read “All the Light ….” soon — I think I’m the last reader in America not to! I sure hope you are back to good health again. Being sick is no fun;(
I’ve tried to hint about the last Tuesday rather than the fourth Tuesday, too. 🙂 5MFB used to have different things going on every Tuesday, so it made sense then, but I think this is the only one of those things still going.
I read A Severe Mercy I think last year or the year before. Quiet was very good. I might check into All the Light…sounds interesting.
Sorry you were so sick during March, but glad you were able to read during your recuperation time. A silver lining for sure. 🙂 Hope you enjoy finishing Quiet–I loved that book. Looking forward to the April books for the Newbery challenge!
I’m pretty sure our whole family has joined in sharing fellowship with this evil-twin-sister-of-the-flu which you mention. 😛 It’s fun! (Not. But does provide reading time because we’re all inclined to just lay down and be.)
Looking forward to your concluding thoughts on Quiet when you get ’round to finishing.
Hope you recover completely and quickly!
So sorry that you were sick!
You can’t go wrong with a Moffat. I think Rufus M. was my husband’s favorite when we read it years ago.
Sorry you were sick, but glad you got to read a lot! I had a similar nasty flu in February when I went away for my annual birthday “retreat”. I will never forget the book I was reading then, Station Eleven, about a pandemic flu. 🙂 Funny as readers how events in our lives get tied to certain books.
And my TBR list just continues to get longer. Sigh.
I keep hearing about The Fringe Hours–I’m going to have to give it a try!
I was pretty busy with Tozer this month, but got a few others in. 🙂
I think All The Light may have to be this summer’s book. I keep thinking I’ll buy it and then putting it off. You didn’t steer me wrong on Unbroken so I guess I can trust you on this one. : )
Stephanie,
Get on the library list, and you MIGHT get it by summer. 😉