March 2018 Reading Summary

Well, it seems that I jinxed Brighton Hove-Albion football club this morning. They were happily at 0 - 0 when I decided to check out the game on the BBC website Live Text; since the game was not being televised here on Sportsnet or TSN. It all went downhill from there. They missed a penalty chance and then had two goals scored on them by Leicester, even with Leicester spending the end of the game a man down.. *Sigh*

Of course, to compound my irritation at this loss... Everton are currently losing 2 - 0 to Manchester City and I don't think they will be able to come back. City are just too powerful this year.

... And then President 'Spanky', once again abandoning his responsibilities as Prez is down in his resort hidey - hole in Florida. Not satisfied with just spending the whole weekend golfing, he's also managing to tweet more lies. If I were Amazon, I'd be tempted to just stop using the US Post Office is, as Cadet Bone Spurs lies, just to show how many billions of dollars it would lose without their business. Anyway, my morning rant is now passed....

On to my March 2018 Reading Summary.

Mar 2018
General Info                Mar               Total
Books Read -                 10                    29
Pages Read -                 3,180              9174

Pages Breakdown
    < 250                           2                    10
250 - 350                         3                      8
351 - 450                         3                      7
   > 450                            2                      4

Ratings
5 - star                                                     2
4 - star                            7                     19
3 - star                            2                       7
2 - star                            1                       1

Gender
Female                           2                       9
Male                               8                     20

Genres
Fiction                           3                       8
Mystery                         5                     14
SciFi                              2                       4
Non-Fic
Classics                                                  1
Poetry                           2                        2

Top 3 Books
1. A Necessary End by Peter Robinson (4 stars)
2. Murder at Madingley Grange by Caroline Graham (4 stars)
3. The Beggar King by Oliver Potzsch (4 stars)

Reading Challenges

12 + 4  Challenge (completed 5)
Two books currently on the go but none completed in Mar.

New Series (completed 6)
1. Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill (4 stars)
2. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (3.5 stars)

Ongoing Series (completed 6)
3. A Necessary End by Peter Robinson (4 stars)
4. The Beggar King by Oliver Potzsch (4 stars)

Decades Challenge (completed 6)
5. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (1910 - 1919) (2.5 stars)
6. Murder at Madingley Grange by Caroline Graham (1990 - 1999) (4 stars)
7. The Common Lawyer by Mark Gimenez (2000 - 2009) (3.5 stars)

Canadian Content (completed 6)
8. Shakespeare's Rebel by C.C. Humphreys (4 stars)
9. Power Politics by Margret Atwood (4 stars)
10. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems by Michael Ondaatje (4 stars)

April Books

Currently Reading
1. Heartstone by C.J. Sansom (12 + 4 Challenge)
2. Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer (12 + 4 Challenge)
3. Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Feist (New Series)
4. The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock (Canadian Content)




In the Mill

1. Ongoing Series - The Murder Stone by Louise Penny



"Beneath the scorched summer sky, the wealthy Finney family have gathered at a lakeside manor to honour their late father. But when the heat wave boils over into a mighty storm, a dead body is left in its wake - and Chief Inspector Armand Gamache finds himself with a building full of suspect."

2. Decades Challenge (1920 - 1929) - The Maracot Deep by Arthur Conan Doyle



"This was one of the works of fiction published during Doyle's life. The story features Professor Maracot who leads an expedition to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, discovering a lost race of Atlanteans."

3. Canadian Content - The Kingdom of Cats by Phyllis Gotlieb



"The Time: A millennium after the Mayflower, on Solthree, once Mother-of-Worlds, now merely an area government in the Galactic Federation.
The Place: Solthree's immense Grand Canyon, temporary habitat for the great telepathic cats of Ungruwarkh.
The Grievance: The great cats had come in peace from a distant planet, to let Solthree scientists study their remarkable powers of perception. They were docile as Solthree house cats, until ... the unthinkable happened! And Solthree suddenly had a terrible wrong to right, before peace would come again to ... The Kingdom of the Cats."

There you go. Looking forward to my April 2018 selections. I'm already enjoying the 4 I've got on the go.