March Books

I published a little interview with Caleb this morning to go with his pictures from a couple of posts back.  You'll have to go back and read it, although now that he can read, he wasn't liking any of my embellishments as I typed his answers, so this year I had to stick to just the facts.

Now, as for my March books, I read 5 this month, so I'm up to 17 for the year.  At this rate, I think I can make it to 50, no problem.

I read 'All-of-a-Kind Family' by Sydney Taylor with the boys.  We loved it and we are on to the second in the series.  The books follow a Jewish family with lots of kids growing up in New York City in the early 1900s.  There are fun stories woven through descriptions of all the holidays they observe - both Jewish and plain old American.  I recommend these even to a grown-up who hasn't read them yet.

Heather let me borrow 'The NAZI Officer's WIFE' by Edith Hahn Beer.    This was my only page-turner of the month.  It tells the story of how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust - I bet you can guess how.

I also finally finished 'The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science" by Richard Holmes.  Now this was a dull book, Burt, but I felt like I learned some things about some famous people whose names you are always hearing and feel like you should know - people like Sir Joseph Banks, Mungo Park, Mary Shelley, Caroline and Frederick Hershel, and many, many more.  My favorite parts included the hot air balloons and the explorers.

Next I read 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up' by Marie Kondo.  According to this lady, if you follow her method completely the first time, which she made up and named (Kon-Mari) after herself, you will never be messy again.  Her method includes getting rid of about 75% of your possessions.  That would help, eh?  Ha!  I'm afraid my nickname could still be Messy Jessy, but I did get rid of 387 things this month, in my quest to get rid of 1,000 things this year, so I'm on track for that goal as well.  (I have a bit of a problem with counting things, you may have noticed.)

And last, and probably least, I read 'Scotland Yard's First Cases' by Joan Lock.  You may be wondering about this motley assortment of books I've been reading.  I will tell you, I've been reading whatever I can find for free on my Kindle and I'm not looking too hard.  This book featured a lot of murder by throat-slitting.

So there you have it, my March books.  Try All-of-A-Kind Family or The Nazi Officer's Wife, and leave the rest alone, would be my advice to you.  Happy April!