March Book Report

March 2022

I finished 11 books last month.

I didn't make note of any particularly good quotes from this month's reading so I am sharing an all time favorite:

"But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading." -- Elizabeth von Arnim, In the Mountains

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 4 books were non-fiction (toward my goal of 25 non-fiction books this year) and 1 counted toward the NonFiction Reader Challenge 
• None were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• None were poetry (toward my goal of reading 4 poetry books this year)
• None counted toward the Canadian Book Challenge 
• None were from my Classics Club List and none counted toward Back to the Classics -- there is a Classics Club Spin in April for which I am planning to read Where Angels Fear to Tread. 

• 1 counted toward the Cruisin' Through the Cozies challenge 
• None counted toward the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge (though I started a book that will count toward this challenge when I finish it)
• None counted toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• 1 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• None were for my Century of Books project

 Here are the books I finished in March 2022: 

1. Dove in the Window by Earlene Fowler (3-stars)
2. Our Lady of Sorrows by Anne Zouroudi  (3-stars)
3. Living with a Dead Language by Ann Patty (4-stars)
4. The Whispers of Nemesis by Anne Zouroudi (4-stars)
5. The Bull of Mithros by Anne Zouroudi (3-stars)
6. The Readers' Advisory Guide to Mystery by John Charles (4-stars)
7. The Feast of Artemis by Anne Zouroudi (4-stars)
8. Ikegai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver and Francesc Miralles (audio, 3-stars)
9. Three Men Out by Rex Stout (3-stars)
10. The Gifts of Poseidon by Anne Zouroudi (3-stars)
11. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books by Michael Dirda (3-stars)

This month was the Can-You-Read-a-Series-in-a-Month? Challenge--hence all the Anne Zouroudi novels. Turns out I can, but it kept me from making progress on most of my challenges.