Reading My Own Damn Books – in March

I decided to join in the Reading My Own Books Challenge at Estella’s Revenge in the hope that it would make me concentrate on my books rather than books from the library. It sort of worked, although I did request some books from the library because other bloggers had loved them. Anyway, in March I read eleven books and of those eight were my own. They were:

1. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
2. Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne
3. The Edge of the Cloud by K.M.Peyton
4. Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater
5. Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim
6. Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart
7. Cork on the Water by McDonald Hastings
8. The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens

I had been aiming to read at least six of my own books so I’m very happy with eight although I didn’t manage to read Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston as I had planned, that one will be carried forward to be read in April. I’m hoping to read at least six of my own books in April, I’ll definitely be reading Oblamov by Goncharov because I got that one in the Classics Club Spin.

I have a horrible feeling that I actually bought more than eight books in March though, so the TBR pile is still increasing!

7 thoughts on “Reading My Own Damn Books – in March

  1. Good job! I only read 6 for the whole month! 4 were from my own shelves. Of course 2 of them I bought since the beginning of the year. I’m bad.

  2. I told my husband about Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne and we both think it sounds very good. I look forward to your review of Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston because I have that book and have not read it yet.

    • tracybham,
      I hope you both enjoy it when you get around to it. I’ve been lucky getting quite a few of those British Crime Classics at second-hand bookshops, but the Charles Kingston book is the only one I haven’t read yet, so far there has only been one that I was a bit disappointed with.

  3. I think it’s funny that you have a horrible feeling that you actually bought more books than you read of your own. Some things are just out of our control! Good job on the eight, though.

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