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Did you enjoy your March pick? Would you recommend it to your fellow readers? Was it difficult or easy to complete this task?

I breezed through Thud!.

It didn't have as much of Young Sam as I remembered, but it had some very good moments of Sam Vimes experiencing dread as he contemplates his life as a copper and the many powerful enemies...most of whom are indeed smart enough not to try and threaten his family.

It also made me purchase Where's My Cow? (inspired by the story featured in Thud!) for the eventual niece/nephew my sister in law is currently baking. Better start indoctrinating them early...

So i read The Road and unpopular opinion but i did not like it all. It felt very repetitive and yet i had moments where i could not put it down lmao

i read The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice in an evening. it was fine, but since it's basically a TED talk, it doesn't go very deep.

So I started to read The Road and then a coworker kinda spoiled it for me, basically being like, "isn't that the one where [such and such happens]." I don't know, I haven't read the book. And now, with things going on, I don't want to continue and want to find something happier, so back to the drawing board.

editing to add: I did find a quick graphic novel to read. The Underwater Welder Definitely some bittersweetness to the story but I feel like it ended on an high note which was nice. Especially since the foreword describes it like an episode of The Twilight Zone.

Finished These Ghosts Are Family yesterday evening and I did not enjoy it. About half way through I had already decided that I was going to give it to two stars but I started caring less and less about the characters and IDGAF at all by the end.

I did not. I chose An American Marriage, which luckily enough also was chosen as the selection for my book club. It took me two and a half weeks to read because I just wasn’t looking forward to it. I’m disappointed that I didn’t like it because I had been wanting to read t for a while. I don’t love the epistolary format, and there were not a lot of likable characters (those who were were minor to the point of almost nonexistence).

It’s possible it was a bit of a rut... though I am enjoying the book I started a couple days ago a lot, am over halfway done with it, and have stayed up until almost 3:30 because I wanted to read just a little more... so who knows.

I'm really behind on my reading. The majority of my reading time in the week is during my commute and now that I've been working from home for almost three weeks, I've really fallen behind. This month might have to bleed into next, or maybe I'll put this month's theme down and come back to it once I'm back in a proper routine.

Finished To Kill a Mockingbird and it is still such a great book.

Tejal wrote: "I'm really behind on my reading. The majority of my reading time in the week is during my commute and now that I've been working from home for almost three weeks, I've really fallen behind. This mo..."

Ugh, same. Plus I have been spending all my hours daily creating and uploading activities on the teaching platforms. I've only managed to read pages here and there.

Finally pushed myself to finish my March second pick. I finished The Pursuit of Love hoping a comedy romance would be more easy to finish with this lockdown.

I enjoyed it. Having to translate French frequently in the end was a bit of a chore for me but it was still fun.

I read Night Film by Marisha Pessl.



On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror film director Stanislaus Cordova--a man who hasn't been seen in public for more than thirty years.

For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova's dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.

Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova's eerie, hypnotic world. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.

This was a phenomenal mystery similar to Girl With A Dragon Tattoo but with a very "New York" feel to it. Some parts got a bit confusing but just when I felt it teetered on the edge, the author brings you back in. Wonderfully done.

Jamie wrote: "I read Night Film by Marisha Pessl.



On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lo..."

that sounds really good! i am adding it to my TBR list!

I read Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult. It was difficult to read in the sense that she pulled no punches in describing the abuse her father subjected her and other members of the church to. Jeffs isn't a strong a writer as Tara Westover of Megan Phelps-Roper but ultimately I'd recommend it to anyone who likes books liked Educated or Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

Super late to this because my reading has gone down the pooper (thanks pandemic), but I read Clap When You Land, and I highly recommend it, especially the audiobook. The performances were terrific, and the story itself destroyed me.