March has come and very nearly gone, and I blew my “one book a month” goal out of the water! My original plan was to read Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, along with my best friend Alesha, for our own international book club (she’s currently living in Kuwait). But by March 10th, I had finished the book and she was still on…page 19ish—and perhaps still is. I should check in.
Then I saw that X-FilesNews.com was having their own book-of-the-month club, so I hopped on board and read Ground Zero, by Kevin J. Anderson. I was very entertained by the fact that Scully drank a beer…while on duty…questioning a potential murder suspect. That took about a week, then I took some time to breath and started to learn how to cross stitch. (Note to self: get cracking on some designs as birthdays are a-coming.)
With a couple weeks left in March, I decided to start a third book—Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses—which was in turns tedious (lots of “ands” make for some very, very long sentences, and sometimes there is an awful lot of description), hard to follow (the dialogue often flows with the rest of the prose, and isn’t accompanied by traditional quotation marks and “John Grady said,” so sometimes it’s difficult to know who said what). It’s also tense, beautifully written and heartbreaking. I will definitely be reading more from McCarthy to see if his other work is similar in style or if Horses stands on its own.
As for April…I’ve ordered Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, but I’ll have to find something to start tomorrow so I stay on track. Perhaps more X-Files books, since…OH YEAH, IT’S BACK!