For March 2016, we're reading...

Couldn't see a new thread for this month yet, so here it is.

I've finished 3 books so far this month:

Blue Murder by Cath Staincliffe
My Secret Sister byJenny Lee Smith and Helen Edwards
A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George

Currently reading The Widow by Fiona Barton. Great psychological thriller so far.

I'm reading Birdie for Canada Reads. This is off-topic, but just returned from Halifax where I visited their incredible and beautiful new Public Library. Wow is all I can say about it.

Just about to start City of Ice by John Farrow set in Montreal.

Just starting The Illegal and really liking it so far.

I just finished Hero's Walk by Badami and quite enjoyed it. I am starting High Latitudes by Mowat now.

I'm about to start Birds of a Feather by Linda Johns.

I notice lots of Canada Reads titles...check out the CBC's Canada Reads thread.

Reading The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester, a new to me author, it is an 2016 Bailey's Prize Long listed.

I'm re-reading Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter for Canada Reads.

I've put aside Behind the Beautiful Forevers for now and am enjoying Eminent Hipsters by Donald Fagen. It's probably the most intellectual memoir by a rock star ever written, or at least the most original. Just finished Exercises in Style, the 1954 French classic by Raymond Queneau -- talk about original.

I'm reading The Outsider a.k.a. The Stranger by Albert Camus

I read The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny. She keeps getting better with each novel.

Don't know why this true crime case has always stuck in my mind, but it has. Every Mother's Nightmare: The Murder of James Bulger by Mark Thomas. Not badly written, but the editing/printing errors in this edition drove me crazy.

I'm following up The Stranger with The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud.

Currently reading A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence.

I'm reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

Currently reading The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat.

Just finished Fatal Passage, by Ken McGoogan, and am now flipping through The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, with contributions by Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin).

I'm taking a class on Viking history and am attempting to read Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney.

Reading Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout.

I'm really enjoying The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland. Next up is a mystery set in Montreal, Deadly Jewels: a novel (it's so new, there isn't a touchstone yet). I really liked Asylum: a novel by the same author last year.

>22 Nickelini: Ooh, Deadly Jewels sounds really interesting! I am a sucker for mysteries set in Montreal.

Speaking of Montreal, my current book is set there: A Little More Free, by John McFetridge. It is the second in a series featuring police constable Eddie Dougherty and takes place during the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union.

(Touchstone, why did you go to Treasure Island first?!)

>23 rabbitprincess: I'm looking forward to it. Her last novel, Asylum, was set in current day Montreal, but tied in to the Duplessis Orphans. That was a disturbing bit of Canadian history that I was unaware of. She did a good job of weaving the fiction in to the history. This new one concerns the British Crown Jewels, which may have been kept in Montreal during WWII.

I'm wondering whether to add Lucy Barton to the wish list or TBR piles...both of which have many books on them already, but there's always room for more. Let me know you think, vancouverdeb.

I'm starting In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume.

Haven't had much time for reading lately, for some reason. Just finished The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

Since no one else seems to be using the separate review thread, would it bother anyone if I posted my reviews of books I read by Canadian authors in the monthly "I'm reading" threads?

go for it, LibraryCin! I do read the other thread even though I don't post there.

I'm reading Rodin's Lover by Heather Webb.

AWOL, but I'm back. Highlights of my reading life lately have been The Widow, My Name is Lucy Barton, Ways to Disappear, and Be Frank With Me. It's been a good month, bookwise anyhow.
Currently reading The Monogram Murders, a new Hercule Poirot treat by Sophie Hannah. I spent a summer gleefully reading all the Agatha Christies I could get my hands on in my youth, so many decades ago (could it be half a century? Yes, it could)...so this book is a bit therapeutic. Maybe i'll try the Judy Blume one next!

Just starting An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jaqueline Winspear.

>25 LynnB: I finished Lucy Barton and I really enjoyed it. I put a review on the main page for the book. I'd recommend it . I'm planning to read more books by Elizabeth Strout. I hope you enjoy it too, Lynn B.

I've had Elena Ferrante's The Story of the Lost Child for a few weeks, but I'm not quite ready to let go of the series. The library had The Days of Abandonment, which I really enjoyed. Currently reading The Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch.

Started The Master and Margarita and the first volume of Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels). May need to find something lighter to leaven these choices.

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

I've finished Superforecasters by Tetlcok and Gardner on critical thinking to improve our ability to forecast the future. Not an easy read but a very interesting one with lots of examples.
I'm onto Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink about a hospital's dilemma during Katrina and the decisions doctors had to make: heart-wrenching and beautifully written.

#16 - LynnB, how did you like The Meursault Investigation? Sounds fascinating!

Meursault Investigation puts a cultural/colonial context around The Stranger which is fascinating. Strongly recommend you read (or re-read) the Stranger first, because the latter really depends on the reader knowing that story.

Neat! I'm intrigued!

I'm reading A Good Baby by Leon Rooke.

The Nest, pretty impressive.

I'm reading The Zhivago Affair by Peter Finn and Petra Couvee.

Currently reading The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, which is long listed for the Women's Literary Prize.

I'm re-reading Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese for a book club.

>41 LynnB: I really liked that one!