March 2024 TBR
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I have 9 books on my TBR for March, these are the books I hope to read in March. Some were the books on my February TBR, which I didn't get to.
March sees a number of Booktube events, the BIGGEST being March of the Mammoths, in which we are encouraged to read books of over 800 pages.
I made a video on the advantages of reading big books: • Why read a Mammoth? (A...
#marchofthemammoths
I have chosen two mammoths to attempt:
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (910 pages)
The Eight Life by Nino Haratischvili (1258 pages)
March also sees the Irish readathon for which I have picked:
The Marble Collector by Cecelia Ahern
Other books on my TBR:
Wordslut: A feminist guide to taking back the English language by Amanda Montell
No Way Back by A J Liddle
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Body Work by Sara Paretsky
A Man was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze
მე, ბებია, ილიკო და იარიონი. ("Granny, Iliko, Illarion and I") by Nodar Dumbadze.
Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:22 Mammoth 1
0:49 Mammoth 2
1:53 Irish Readathon
3:03 Word$%^t
5:13 No Way Back
5:37 White Teeth
5:50 Body Work
6:25 Georgian Book
7:30 Otar Chiladze
8:06 Outro
Other Books shown or mentioned
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
No Harm Done by A J Liddle
Lingo by Gaston Dorren
Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
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Lots of cool language books. Thanks for the recs and good luck with your mammoths as well
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for stopping by, the mammoths will be a challenge because of their length.
Great tbr Jim. I really hope you enjoy The Eighth Life as much as I have. I’m hoping to finish it before my weekly wrap up on Sunday 😊
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
4 ай бұрын
Thanks Debs, I'm glad you are enjoying The Eighth Life, I have just read the first 50 pages, Stasia is quite a character.
Hi Jim, thank you for participating in March mystery madness. I am cohosting this year and we are celebrating Janelle of too fond of Books who we lost last year as you know. I used to read Sara Paretsky in the 80s and I like her very much. Wonderful March plans! Aloha.
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
4 ай бұрын
Sara Paretsky's style is still much the same, now her PI V I Warshawski is older (late forties) and there are new developments in crime solving like DNA and access to the internet and phone records... but she still has the same people around her like downstairs neighbor, Salvatore "Sal" Contreras, who is in his eighties in the more recent books. I have read about 10 of the books in the series, there are at least 21.... I like the character Paretsky has created in V I Warshawski.
@MarilynMayaMendoza
4 ай бұрын
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff I should continue reading a series. Have you read Sue Grafton to the end?
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
4 ай бұрын
@@MarilynMayaMendoza I read a couple in her alphabet series. These days I like to read many different authors. In the crime genre there are so many great women writers like Ruth Rendell, Rachel Lynch, Kathy Reichs, Mo Hayder etc...
@MarilynMayaMendoza
4 ай бұрын
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Ruth Rendel is my favorite mystery author and I'm reading three books of hers for MMM. I don't get along with Kathy Reichs for some reason. Happy reading. Aloha.
It’s always intimidating to take on a big chonker!
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
4 ай бұрын
This is why I tend to avoid them, apart from in March...
Good luck with Cryptonomicon. Honestly I found that book quite bad. So many pages, and so much stuff that didn't need to be in there. And the characters sucked as well. But maybe you'll have more fun with it than I did. XD
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
4 ай бұрын
Greg of another bibliophile reads liked Crypronomicon, I'll give it another try see how far I get...