This month's edition is late on account of the fact that I can barely make myself look at what I read long enough to copy/paste it let alone reproduce it. I find it Depressing.

Before I get to that, though, a semi-promised announcement since I'm posting anyway. For those of you interested in the 24-hour Read-a-Thon, please remember it is held this Saturday and starts at noon (12pm) GMT. Information on how to calculate your start time can be found here.

Thank you and my apologies for a potential overload of bolding and being late with everything. We now return to our scheduled discussion of what books we read in March. ^-^

Statistics-wise as I remember it, I picked up about 8 books last month. Of those 8, 4 were assigned books and 4 were books I picked up because I wanted to read them. Of those latter 4, I failed to finish 2.

I am so very, very, very tired of books I'm only reading because I'm told to. Even if the books turn out to be interesting (I liked half of my assigned reading), I'm still not reading them because I want to.

I'm trying to mix up my obligatory and leisure reading a little more this month. I still have a good chunk of assigned reading list to go through (before deciding which to reread so I can write essays about them), but I do need my leisure books.

Sample books I remember titles of include:
Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper (reread, leisure)
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (obligatory, will never get on with Conrad)
Kipps by H.G. Wells (obligatory, surprisingly good)
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (obligatory, really liked it)

Anyway, enough of my woes. How has your reading been this month? I hope it was better than mine! What were the highlights of the month? Did you read all the books you hoped to get to or have you been reading whatever struck your fancy? Let us know!