March Reads

Spring is here, and with it the amount of time I spend reading has sadly diminished. Yes, I only managed to read half the number of books as the previous months, but I have a good reason . . . Baseball season has begun, and I may have spent the last week of the month traipsing across Southern England.

Without further ado, here's this month's What-I-Read graphic.

Seven books, five authors and I enjoyed every one.

Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry is the obvious outlier here. It was recommended to me by a friend who works in a bookstore. They haven't read it themselves but said the store couldn't keep it on the shelf and wondered if it was any good. The five-star rating should answer that question . . . then again, even though literary fiction is clearly not my jam, it almost always receives high ratings.

The beginning of the month seems like so long ago, and so much has happened that I honestly can say I don't remember much about Photo Finish. I know it was the book that was hyped a lot and, as with all Elsie Silver's works, I enjoyed it. I'm hearing more and more about the third book in the series and it will definitely be an April read.

I predict Do I Know You? will be on the top ten list at the end of the year. Like last year's fave, The Roughest Draft, this book follows a couple who try to rekindle the love they once knew. The emotions are honest and relatable. Anything this author duo writes will be high on my TBR list. If you haven't tried them before, I highly recommend them.

I'd been hearing a lot about Liz Tomforde recently and wanted to try a new author. She did not disappoint! While Right Move was definitely better than Mile High, both had minor flaws that kept me from rating them higher.

Mile High centered around a flight attendant flying with the same professional hockey team. They took frequent, long, 'red-eye' flights from places like Detroit to Chicago, or Nashville to Philadelphia . . . you know . . . flights that typically only take one to two hours. It drove me nuts, and me complaining to my husband about it, drove him nuts as well.

As I said, Right Move was better, but I did wince whenever a character 'popped a shoulder' instead of shrugging . . . which was often.

That being said, Caught Up, book three in the series is due out in October and I already have it written down in my calendar.

That leaves Elizabeth O'Roark. What can I say . . . I love her Grumpy Devils. They're quick reads, usually around three hundred pages, but they pack quite the emotional punch. One minute I'm laughing, the next, crying. And, yes, you can expect the last of the series to appear on April's graphic . . . I'm already halfway through it.

In parting, here's a lovely little pic of Stonehenge I took last week. London was a blast, but I'm still trying to get back on a normal sleep schedule while tending to the numerous blisters on my feet.

Cheers,

C.J.