What We Read in March

I'm interrupting a string of posts about how stressful work/life has been lately to talk about something fun - reading!! March was a blur but I still managed to get some reading done - I finished 6 books. 3 were excellent, the other 3 were pretty good to just ok. But first, the highlights:

In Love by Amy Bloom was our March book club book. It's a memoir about the author's husband's decision to seek out assisted suicide in Switzerland after getting diagnosed with Alzheimer's. This was  a sad, but powerful read. My FIL died from Alzheimer's and everyone in my book club was personally impacted by someone who is currently struggling with or had died from Alzheimer's which added to the discussion. Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro is the first novel I've read by this author (I've read and loved her non-fictio). I loved it. The book opens with a car accident involving teens and then over the course of the novel, we see how that accident impacts the survivors' lives. It was so good and so beautifully written. Lastly, I read the latest installment of Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series. I don't know how she keeps cranking out excellent installments of this series. I loved this book so much!

The next 3 books were good to just ok. I liked the Genova book but read it on the tails of "In Love" so was probably burned out on reading about Alzheimer's. It had some good nuggets in it about memory but overall wasn't my favorite book by her. I'm at the whim of when books become available at the library - in hindsight, I should have deferred Remember. I think it's still worth reading - just not on the tails of a book about a similar subject. 

The biggest development on the boys' front is that Will is suddenly VERY INTO BOOKS. This is a very exciting development as he was slower to warm to books and I feared that I had messed up and not read to him enough in the early months of his life. To be clear, we always read at bedtime/naptime and he got a lot of "second hand reading" when I was reading to Paul, but he just did not love books like Paul did. Others had assured me it would all work out - and it did. His favorite book is one that Kae gave to Paul when Will was born - it's called "A Long Winter Nap." It's about a tortoise that does not like winter and keeps trying to find places to hibernate but gets interrupted by others who are enjoying winter. At the end, he finds a flat resting place - which is a sled. And then whoosh! He's off on the sledding adventure of his life and realizes he actually DOES like winter. There are days I have read this book 5 times. He is obsessed and thinks it is SO FUNNY when the tortoise lays down on a sled to sleep. It's very cute to see him get so excited about a book. 

What did you read in March?