March Round-Up

[pinksonia]

It's a little late, but I figure there should be some sort of March round up, even if it is just books read. So, for those there are eight: two physical books, two ebooks, and four audiobooks.

Comments

[wasureneba]

Yeah nails! That's awesome. :D

(Also, time travel novels... do you have any specific recs, other than what you have on the list here?)

[pinksonia]

Thanks! I'm pretty excited.

Time travel wise, I really liked To Say Nothing of the Dog which I finished back in January; though, it does have a sort of farcical-Victorian tone that I'm not sure everyone will like. There is also always the Outlander series, which I loved in high school, though I haven't revisited it recently.

[wasureneba]

I do tend to enjoy Victoriana (also Regency), and at least some steampunk, so farcical-Victorian tones are not out of my purview. :) Have you read any of the other books in that series?

I keep on seeing the Outlander series at my local bookshop and pondering it.

[pinksonia]

I haven't read any of the other books in the series since I actually got the book because my choir director was impatient that I hadn't read it on his recommendation yet. From what I understand, they are a series because the characters in each of the books work for the same company, but that none (or maybe just a very few) characters actually appear in more than one of the books.

I know they are on of the first things I bought on a fandom recommendation because people kept talking about them on one mailing list or other (you know, back when fandom was all on yahoo!groups).

[pierhias]

As an almost life-long nailbiter I'm curious to know how you managed to not do it for a month? (If you don't mind sharing, that is.) Kudos, I've stopped doing it at times before, I know how hard it can be.

[pinksonia]

I've found before that as long as I keep my nails polished I wont bite them (probably because I bite all the polish off of them instead), but I have to keep on top of it all the time. I've gone up to 4 months this way before, but then I got lazy and took a long car trip (which I guess makes me nervous?) and off they all came again.

But yeah, definitely a life-long nail biter too and it is the one thing my parents still constantly hound me about when I go home.