Tuesday, March 3, 2015

books read in March 2015

Fiction is in red. Date of first publication in (parentheses).

27. Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch (2013) (reread)
28. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Sylvia Plath (1979) (second British ed.)
29. Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography, Susan Cheever (2010)
30. Hush Hush, Laura Lippman (2015)
31. The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney (2015) (damn fine, didn't quite stick the ending, but v good)
32. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson (2015) (gripping, but so manipulative and so TERRIBLY CLUNKY)
33. Gone, Mo Hayder (2010) (JESUS, TALK ABOUT GRIPPING) (ALSO WHY CAN'T THE WHOLE SERIES BE ABOUT MY GIRL FLEA)
34. A Death on Diamond Mountain: A True Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Path to Enlightenment, Scott Carney (2015) (interesting but superficial)
35. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010) (gripping enough, but grim, and OY, that prose style)
36. Lords & Ladies, Terry Pratchett (1992) (memorial reread) (God, we miss you, Sir Pterry)
37. The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard (1998)
38. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (1990) (comfort sickbed reread -- haven't read this in quite a while, I wore it out for myself in the 00's I think)
39. Unbound, Jim C. Hines (2015)
40. So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson (2015)
41. The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson (2004)


all 2015 booklist posts