April Reads?

[shadforth]

So,what did ya'll read in April? I only managed a wimpy three but I was disrupted by decorating! :sad:

Candleland by Martyn Waites 3/5
Lion Of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn 4/5
Red Tide by G.M Ford 3/5

 

[kathe]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

 

[MoreCowbell]

Breaking Rank by Kristen D Randle...3/5
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham...3/5
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel...2/5
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier...5/5++
In Memory of Junior by Clyde Edgerton...2/5

Some of these I enjoyed as just "a quick read" or "something I would've loved as a teenager" but I think it is telling that the only one I'm keeping is Girl With a Pearl Earring and that I immediately had to lend it to my mother but also DEMANDED to get it back

 

[Fantasy Moon]

The Crystal Shard – R.A. Salvatore
The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy revealed through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches
The Pig, the Prince, and the Unicorn – Karen A. Brush
Silver Borne – Patricia Briggs
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Little Regiment and other Civil War Stories – Stephen Crane

 

[Anamnesis]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Hunger by Whitley Streiber (re-read)
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan (re-read)

 

[beer good]

Little Big Man - Berger, Thomas 2/5 (probably 4/5 in English, but the translation sucked)
Rape: A Love Story - Oates, Joyce Carol 4/5
The Absolute Sandman vol 3 - Gaiman, Neil 5/5
A House At The Tearside - Khoury-Ghata, Vénus 3/5
The Absolute Sandman vol 4 - Gaiman, Neil 5/5
Ellis Island And The People Of America - Perec, Georges 3/5
Sånger från äldreomsorgen - Thoursie, Ragnar 4/5
Under the Dome - King, Stephen 3/5

 

[Disenthral]

Only 2

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
and
The Girl Who Played With Fire

 

[Bob Magness]

I was on a non-fiction kick this past month.

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible by Bart D. Ehrman 4/5
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis 3/5
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel 2/5
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt 3/5
Changes (The Dresden Files, #12) by Jim Butcher 5/5
Shakespeare: The World As Stage by Bill Bryson 2/5
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination by Neil A. Fiore 1/5

 

[eldog]

Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates 3.5/5

Three Cups Of Tea - Greg Mortensen 3.5/5

The Sorrows Of An American - Siri Hustvedt 3.5/5

 

[Landslide]

Only one for me:
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton.

I started another one, but haven't finished it yet.

 

[saliotthomas]

Elmore Leonard-Freaky deaky 3
Donald Westlake-The hot Rock 4
Colum MvCann-Let the great world spin(abandonned)
Puchkine-The captain's daughter 4
Claude Bathany-Country blues 3
Gustave Flaubert-Salammbo 4
Charles Portis-The dog of the south 3