What Are You Reading in March?

How did your February reading go? Did you make goals? Did you meet them? I didn't but I came really close. I had set a goal of reading 10 books and I read 9. I started a book last night, and in theory I could have finished it just on the wire but I didn't like it and set it aside.

I don't seem to have much checked out of the library right now. Well, we have lots of DVDs checked out right now and a few cookbooks but I don't have a lot of book books. My goal for the month is to read 12 books. I think it's doable. Here are a few books I think will be hitting my "Read" list this month.

The Shadows: The Book of Elsewhere Volume 1 by Jacqueline West. It won the Cybils category for fantasy and science fiction. It looks like a nice little middle grade book. My friend Cat really enjoyed it. I'm planning to start this one next and I suspect by the end I'll really want a pair of magical spectacles that let me enter paintings.

I need to start another non-fiction book. Right now I'm leaning toward Jennet Conant's The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. Yes! If you were not aware Roald Dahl, the man who brought us such gems as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and Matilda fed information back to the British while he was stationed in Washington. Another lesser known fact about the author is that he was a fighter ace. A not so lesser known fact about me? I have a slight obsession with reading about WWII spies, especially if they are women. I also have a feeling that reading this will make me want to reread Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I should also soon have my hands on a copies of Ree Drummonds memoir Black Heels to Tractor Wheels and Andrea Seigel's The Kid's Table. But of course, the end of the month will find me devouring the reboot of the Sweet Valley series with Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley Confidential because I really need to know how the heck Bruce Patman became Elizabeth's best friend and well, I would say why she's not speaking to Jessica but I've already made a guess about that one.

What are you reading in March?

Contributing Editor Karen Ballum also blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.