I read four books from my own shelves: Beetles, Lightly Toasted by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs, I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron.
I also read two books from the Asian Center library: Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine, and Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun. It was particularly frustrating to read the latter while eating microwave pasta with pesto from a powder mix.
This month I read a lot of e-books, as I'd given up Tumblr for Lent and then spent a lot of time in queues or waiting for my tardy professors. The ones I didn't cover in the WWW post are:
- Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes
- The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik
- The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
- Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
- Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
- Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
- Act Like It by Lucy Parker
- After You by Jojo Moyes
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
- 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
National Women's Month reading was mostly successful. I only read two books by men, one because it was a serendipitous library find and the other because my sister and I swapped tablets for an hour. I also bought a lot of books this month, mostly from secondhand stores. Here are some of them:
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Foodie board books, ostensibly for future children or godchildren |
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Old-school Winnie the Pooh, for the same purpose. |
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Two middle-grade favorites I wanted to reread. |
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Middle grade and middle age: A Tita Tea-time mystery, and the novel a favorite movie (Aquamarine) was based on, apparently. |
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Two serious-looking books, to play at being an adult |
Earlier today I cleaned out my shelves at home. This is what 198 books look like, in semi-random stacks (stack stability was the major consideration). I have 20-30 books hidden elsewhere.
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These piles look a lot neater in the photo than in real life. |
April is National Filipino Literature Month, so I plan on reading some Filipino books. April 9 is also Araw ng Kagitingan, so I figure I'll read something 'heroic' (valorous?), or maybe just go for a biography or two.
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