Quarterly Reading Report - January to March, 2014

I'm pretty sure I forgot to post a month or two's worth of reading so I'm going for the quarterly report. January was really a terrific month in which almost all of the authors were new to me (the exceptions are Sarah Addison Allen and Julie Klassen). Although it wasn't typical for quantity, January being the month I typically bury myself in books to the detriment of all else, the quality was terrific. 

February was dominated by children's books but the grown-up reads I finished were all enjoyable. Favorites were The Rosie Project (an upper) and On Such a Full Sea (bleak but fascinating dystopian) in adult books; Spy Smuggler and Who's in the Tree in children's (will review the latter, soon). 

March ended on a high note with the second installment in Ben Winters' "Last Policeman" series, followed immediately by David James Poissant's stellar short story collection, The Heaven of Animals. There was actually only one book that I found disappointing in March and I haven't reviewed it, yet, so I'll wait to talk about the good and the bad in that one, later.  Links lead to my reviews, if applicable. 

January

1. Ancient Egypt: Everyday Life in the Land of the Nile - R. Brier and H. Hobbs

2. Somewhere in France - Jennifer Robson

3. The Children's Paul: A Life of St. Paul for Young People - J. G. Stevenson

4. Someone Else's Love Story - Joshilyn Jackson

5. See Inside An Egyptian Town - ed. by R. J. Unstead

6. Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book that Changed the World - Dermot Davis

7. The Dancing Master - Julie Klassen

8. Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab - Pflugfelder and Hockensmith

9. Vampires in the Lemon Grove - Karen Russell

10. The Gods of Heavenly Punishment - Jennifer Cody Epstein

11. A Star for Mrs. Blake - April Smith

12. Lost Lake - Sarah Addison Allen

13. Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill

14. This Dark Road to Mercy - Wiley Cash

February

15. Spy Smuggler: Paul Lelaud, France, 1942-44 - Jim Eldridge

16. The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

17. On Such a Full Sea - Chang-Rae Lee

18. Is That My Cat? - Jonathan Allen

19. Who's in the Tree? - Craig Shuttlewood

20. Why Does Earth Spin? and other questions about our planet - Mary Kay Carson

21. Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage - Pflugfelder and Hockensmith

22. Who Were the American Pioneers? and other questions about Western Expansion - Martin W. Sandler

23. The Making of a Marchioness (or Emily Fox Seton), parts 1 and 2 - Frances Hodgson Burnett

24. The Returned - Jason Mott

25. Fallen Beauty - Erika Robuck

26. How Does a Seed Sprout? and other questions about plants - Melissa Stewart

27. How Does the Ear Hear? and other questions about senses - Melissa Stewart

28. How Does a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly? and other questions about butterflies - M. Stewart

29. What Was America's Deadliest War? and other questions about the Civil War - Martin W. Sandler

30. Redshirts - John Scalzi

31. The Big Needle - Ken Follett

March

32. Shadows in the Sun - Gayathri Ramprasad

33. A History of the World with Google Earth - Penny Worms and William Ing

34. Goodnight Songs - Margaret Wise Brown

35. The Taste of Apple Seeds - Katharina Hegena

36. Logopolis by Christopher H. Bidmead

37. Children's Wartime Diaries: Secret Writings from the Holocaust and WWII, ed. by Laurel Holliday)

38. The Riverman - Aaron Starmer

39. The Martian - Andy Weir

40. Savage Harvest - Carl Hoffman

41. A Hundred Summers - Beatriz Williams

42. Mr. Owita's Guide to Gardening - Carol Wall

43. You Can Date Boys When You're 40 - Dave Barry

44. Countdown City - Ben H. Winters

45. The Heaven of Animals - David James Poissant

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