Let’s pretend I posted this on the last day of March, as I was supposed to do.<\/p>\n
Hey! It’s March 31st! Happy birthday, Here’s my list of books read for March. Ten books read looks good on paper, but I have to admit to myself that this was a cheating month. There are three graphic novels, two travel guides, a nonfiction bestseller and a romance novel included here, none of which were exactly taxing on the brain (except perhaps ‘David Boring’, which was so beautifully drawn I had to reread several parts to absorb the text as well as the art). The two Nick Hornby selections, which I thoroughly enjoyed, were very brief – less than 200 pages apiece – as was the Chabon novella. <\/p>\n 1. Nick Hornby – The Polysyllabic Spree I have resolved to improve my literary quotient in April by starting off the month with a bang(!) by attacking the behemoth that is Charles Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’, a classic that I neglected during my formal education. I can also guarantee two other substantial reads: my bookclub selection, Kate Grenville’s ‘The Secret River’, and my pre-publication review novel, Michael Chabon’s ‘The Yiddish Policeman’s Union’. Otherwise it’s hard to predict really, but you might be seeing some Banana Yoshimoto, Georgette Heyer or Josephine Tey, depending on my time management skills and general level of sociability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s pretend I posted this on the last day of March, as I was supposed to do. Hey! It’s March 31st! Happy birthday, ! Many happy returns. You will receive my most excellent birthday gift of groovy retro stereophonic equipment when I see you next. Here’s my list of books read for March. Ten books […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Nick Hornby – Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
\n3. Michael Chabon – The Final Solution
\n4. Fodor’s Citypack – Hong Kong’s 25 Best
\n5. DK Eyewitness – Top 10 Hong Kong
\n6. Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra – Y: the last man, Book 1 “Unmanned”
\n7. Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra – Y: the last man, Book 2 “Cycles”
\n8. Daniel Clowes – David Boring
\n9. Steven D. Levitt – Freakonomics
\n10. Laura Kinsale – Midsummer Moon
\n(still haven’t finished Midnight’s Children, dammit)<\/p>\n