March and April 2015 Reads

Mar	7	The Country of Ice Cream Star	Sandra Newman
	8	Where all Light Tends to Go	David Joy
	9	The Martian	Andy Weir
	10	Eeny Meeny	M. J. Arlidge
Apr	11	A God in Ruins	Kate Atkinson
	12	World Gone By	Dennis Lehane
	13	Soil	Jamie Kornegay
	14	The Buried Giant	Kazuo Ishiguro
	15	The Star Side of Bird Hill	Naomi Jackson
	16	Infinite Tides	Christian Kiefer

I am slowly but surely getting me reading mojo back!  In January and February of this year, I read just 3 books each month.  Now, in March, there were 4, and in April, there were 6.  I'm still working on the blogging mojo.

Now, let me tell you which of these 10 books I loved.

I loved The Country of Ice Cream Star.  It's a dystopian novel that takes place after a plague.  What set the novel apart from other dystopian tales is the original language used by the children, everyone is a child.

Where All Light Tends to Go uses the English Language in the best way possible.  It is Southern grit-lit with an intricate plot and it's a beautifully written debut thriller.

I'm writing this in June, and so far The Martian by Andy Weir is the best book I've read all year.  It was recommended to be by my oldest daughter, whose favorite genre is paranormal, dystopian, sci-fi fantasy!  We usually don't read the same books.  Imagine being on of the first humans to walk on planet Mars.  Now, imagine being left there, all alone, during an emergency evacuation.  Our guy is Mark and he's smart and resourceful.  When Mission Control finds that he's been left behind, all resources are redirected to rescue him.  Read the book, you won't be disappointed.

What are you reading?