March was a good month for reading. I almost managed 16 books and it was a good mix of material. I'm still a little behind on pacing but I'm catching up there too. My favorite read was actually a bit of a surprise: Quest for a Maid by Frances M Hendry. It's a strangely good historical YA set in medieval Scotland and I plan to right a review on it in the near future. I also managed to read a work of non-fiction, a cookbook, and a collection of short plays which all hits some of my smaller categories. I'm finishing out the month and starting out April in the middle of Kim by Rudyard Kipling which is, of course, a classic. It was a good month.
Putting these lists together is starting to get complicated. It used to be that I just grabbed things off the shelf more or less on whim. Now I'm putting together planning documents to make sure I hit all my categories enough. One flaw with the randomized system of selection is that it's random. Which means, I'm not hitting the items on my little subcategories because there's only a 1 in 30 chance of hitting the single item on the list. I'm not sure how to fix this. It's a random system and that is just what happens. For this list, I made sure there were at least a couple titles for my smaller categories which made the whole list longer. I can already see an unintended consequence. Pretty much anything that isn't in one of the categories has dropped off the list which wasn't the intention. I'll think more on that for May. For now, there's a lot of interesting things here and I'm going to leave it as is.
- Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed* (YA)
- Kids of Appetite by David Arnold* (YA)
- Machine Man by Max Barry* (Ryan Pick)
Bittman Bread by Mark Bittman and Kerri Conan(Finished 4/4/2022)- Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley (Series book 3)
- Kill All Happies by Rachel Cohn (YA)
- Best American Side Dishes by Cook's Illustrated (Cookbook)
- Abaddon's Gate by James S. Corey* (Series Book 3)
- Puffs the Play: One Act Edition for Young Wizards by Matt Cox (Play, Borrowed)
- Alex & Eliza by Melissa De La Cruz* (YA)
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow* (YA)
- Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (Classic)
- How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason (TBR, Series book 1)
- The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke* (YA)
Cazadora by Romina Garber(Finished 4/16/2022)- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han* (YA)
- The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman (Borrowed from Dad)
- The Returning by Christine Hinwood* (YA)
- The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (YA)
- Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress*
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (TBR)
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee(Finished 4/11/2022)- Wildwood by Colin Meloy (YA, Series Book 1)
- Dragonwatch by Brandon Mull* (YA)
- Still Life by Louise Penny (TBR)
- Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (YA)
- Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (Series book 4)
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay* (YA)
- Maximillian Fly by Angie Sage (YA)
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez* (YA)
- City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab* (YA)
- Bone by Jeff Smith* by Jeff Smith (Ryan Pick)
- What Goes Around by Courtney Summers* (YA)
- All the Rage by Courtney Summers* (YA)
- The Road Trip Survival Guide by Rob Taylor (Nonfiction)
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas* (YA)
- The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas* (YA)
- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci* (Nonfiction, gift)
- Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf (Professional Reading)
- The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (TBR)
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (reread for class)
- Dear Bully edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones (Read for my Principal)
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling* (Classic) (almost done with it)
- Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden (YA, Borrowed, Series book 1)
Fruits Basket vol 11 by Natsuki Takaya* (finished 4/2/2022)Fruits Basket vol 12 by Natsuki Takaya*(finished 4/3/2022)
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