March in Review

It’s been a weird month. I spent the first half of March at home in Adelaide gadding about at the Fringe and Festival of Arts then pretty much spent the next few weeks recovering. Sort of. I enrolled in a Harvard MOOC on the Ancient Greek hero and enjoyed a happy Easter weekend watching lectures on The Iliad while finishing an old knitting project. My husband pointed out that this basically makes me the world’s biggest dork, but whatever. #HomerIsMyHomeboy

Epic poetry aside, I fell into a minor reading slump this month. I didn’t get to half as many books as I would have liked and was a bit thin on the ground with my reviews. Ah well. The books I did get to were mostly excellent—L. S. Hilton’s Maestra and Kirsty Eagar’s Summer Skin being my picks of the bunch. Seriously, such fun. And I’m so excited about the books I have lined up for April.

In other news, I launched a new series here on Lectito called ‘Meet the Bookstagrammers’ where I’m chatting with the people behind some of my favourite bookish Instagram accounts. So far I’ve caught up with Abeer Acero (@lookingforabura) and Hikari Loftus (@foldedpagesdistillery). It’s been wonderful getting to know them a little better and I can’t wait to chat with more bookstagrammers in the coming weeks and months.

But for now, here’s my March reviews:

	Maestra L. S. Hilton Genre: Thriller Read the review ⇒
	The Passenger Lisa Lutz Genre: Thriller Read the review ⇒
	Summer Skin Kirsty Eagar Genre: YA/NA Read the review ⇒
	Yellow Megan Jacobson Genre: YA Read the review ⇒
	The North Water Ian McGuire Genre: Historical fiction / adventure Read the review ⇒
	Take Six Girls: the Lives of the Mitford Sisters Laura Thompson Genre: Biography Read the review ⇒

I read waaaaay faster than I review and in March, I also gobbled down these titles. Look out for the reviews in early April:


The Singing Bone by Beth Hahn	Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan	Arcadia by Iain Pears	When We Collided by Emery Lord

And finally, here’s a few of the books I’m looking forward to reading in April. The beginning of autumn, when the days start shrinking and the sky gets all moody, always puts me in the mood for dark and claustrophobic reads, and I’ve got a whole lot of creepy crime on my TBR pile that I can’t wait to get stuck into:


All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford	All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage	The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas	Different Class by Joanne Harris	Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel	The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock	Dreaming the Enemy by David Metzenthen