Well, the year is one-fourth spent already. Criminy! March was fairly…all over the place. Didn’t do well with Lenten reading at all, but Opening Day was a solid performance, I think, and I even got a head start on Read of England with two reviews scheduled to roll out.

Lenten Fare:
Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life, Elizabeth Scalia
Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, Joseph Pearce
Also read half of Benedict XVI’s book on Holy Week. Totally muffed my goal of reading more GKC during Lent. I managed half of Twelve Types before getting distracted by baseball and Read of England.

Science Survey
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Shape Our World, Joe Roman

Classics Club
A third of the way through Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. Thinking of dropping Plutarch from my list and making two substitutions because my library’s copies were ‘permanently borrowed’ and I can’t find the exact editions we had for restocking.

Reading Dixie:
A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries, Patterson Toby Graham

TBR Cleanup:
Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America, Alan Ehrenhalt

Opening Day:
The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told, ed. Jeff Silverman
Hunting a Detroit Tiger, Troy Soos
The Teammates: Portrait of a Friendship, David Halberstam
Summer of 49, David Halberstam
Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry Between the Yankees and Red Sox, Mike Vacarro.

The Unreviewed:
Mating in Captivity, a book on managing intimacy and desire in relationships. A rare DNF. The core idea of it was interesting (that attraction is coupled with mystery, and that over-sharing/over-familiarity smother desire), but I was put off by the obsession with sex, to the point that the ‘therapist’ recommended divorce to one couple so they’d find each other interesting again.
Emperors and Idiots: literally just finished this Saturday afternoon.

Coming up in April:

Do you even need to ask?