Reading in March

Published on by Margaret

This month I’™ll be reading a selection of Robert Frost’™s poems. I don’™t read a lot of poetry but Frost is one of my favourite poets. I think that poetry is really better if you listen, rather than read it, or recite it out loud. Most memorably, some years ago I went to a poetry reading by Seamus Heaney who not only read his own poems but also some of Frost’™s. I know some of the poems in this selection but would like to memorise some more as part of the Celebrate the Author Challenge, Frost’™s birthday was 26 March.

I’™m part way into Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie, set in Nigeria in the 1960s and have just started to read Dante’™s Divine Comedy. I would also like to read The Innocent Man by John Grisham. This is a move away from Grisham’™s usual fiction into non-fiction about the wrongful conviction of Ron Williamson. I really should have started to read Daniel Isn’™t Talking by Marti Leimbach, as it’™s the next book up for discussion at my local reading group (next Wednesday). This is a novel about an autistic child based on the author’™s experiences with her son. I think it may be a bit challenging, I know very little about autism.


Ambitiously, I’™d also like to start reading these books – Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, D H Lawrence’s Selected Stories and Barbara Euphan Todd’s Miss Ranskill Comes Home. They’™re all library books. I just hope I’™ll be able to renew them! It would be good to have an extra brain and another pair of eyes, or only need to sleep every other night and then I’™d stand more chance of reading all the books I’™d love to read.

3 thoughts on “Reading in March”

  2. I really like Robert Frost, too, and I am not at all a poetry person! I’m happy to see Les Miserables in your pile. Mine is on my night stand ready to go. I just hope I can keep up a good pace with it. I see a Persephone book peeking out there–I’m in the mood for one of those, too!

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  3. I am determined to find a way to have more hours in a day so that I can do all the things that I want to do and read all the books that I want to read! There has to be a way. :)

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