I went a little overboard on library books this month because we visited a great branch we don’t often get to. Luckily I get four renewals! April will finally be the month when I try Elena Ferrante, after being on the waiting list for the first of the Neapolitan novels for ages.
LIBRARY BOOKS READ
- The Remains by Annie Freud (poetry)
- History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky
- Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra (poetry)
- The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig (poetry)
- Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden
Skimmed only:
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown (mostly repeats what I’d already read in her latest book, Rising Strong)
LIBRARY BOOKS CURRENTLY READING
- The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman
- The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
- One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and Its Aftermath, by Åsne Seierstad
- Golden Age by Jane Smiley
- Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano
CHECKED OUT, TO BE READ
- The Land Ballot by Fleur Adcock (poetry)
- In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
- The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
- To the River by Olivia Laing
- Song of the Sea Maid by Rebecca Mascull
- The Observances by Kate Miller (poetry)
- Dream Work by Mary Oliver (poetry)
- The Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park (about tigers)
RETURNED UNREAD
- Of Love and Desire by Louis de Bernières (unfinished)
- A Lesson in Love by Gervase Phinn
- The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard (unfinished)
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Bookish Beck = Rebecca Foster. American transplant to England. Freelance proofreader and book reviewer.
Bookish Beck 
Why did you return Gervase Phinn? I notice most of your authors are female.
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You’re right: there happen to be quite a lot of female authors on the pile this time round. I got a little bored with Phinn’s Little Village School novels. I thought I’d read this one just to be completist, but then let it go to make more space on my library card.
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So many great books here! Looking forward to your reviews. 🙂
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Thanks! I can’t promise to review them all…but some, certainly.
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Look at The Signature of Al Things.. it just looks so big and beautiful sitting there in that pile. I hope you love it! 🙂
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I’m looking forward to it — I know it’s one of your favorites! I’d been hoping to clear the decks a bit before starting such a lengthy novel, but I’ve had it sitting around for a while and I think I’m on my last library renewal, so I may have to pick it up soon.
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So glad to see The Signature of All Things and Revised Fundamentals in your pile, they’re favorites. Wise choice in waiting for Ferrante to do all four at once!
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Hooray for someone else who gets carried away with borrowing library books. Me too. I love forward to seeing what you think of Towers of Trebizond. Her novel The World my Wilderness is one of my favourite books.
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Ah, I’ll have to disappoint you there. I have to confess I’ve gotten a bit bored with it and resorted to skimming. I like the theology bits…the travel bits not as much.
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