I had planned to post about the books I’ve read on the last Friday of the month, but I wasn’t finished with my second book until Friday. So here I am posting on the LAST day of the month. By the way, what happened to February? Gone already and we are on to March. “In like a Lion and out like a Lamb”. Not here. Our weather has been incredible for the past week. No Lions Allowed.

Have to post a few photos of my azaleas!

and a begonia.

I’ve seen several different types of butterflies already and Terry thought he heard a hummingbird. Hopefully Spring is here to stay and we won’t have any more cold weather.

And back to the books that I read…

Last month I posted about getting free Kindle books from the public library. While it’s nice to read for free, there are problems. My library has only one electronic copy of the books it has available and sometimes it can be six months before I can get the requested book. And then, when it’s finally my turn, I don’t see the message that it’s ready. Or I am already reading a book from the library and need to finish it so I don’t lose it. That’s happened SO MANY times.

But this month I was able to read two books from the library. The first was “Harlem Shuffle” by Colson Whitehead. I had already read the “Nickle Boys” and started reading the “Underground Railroad” but didn’t get it finished before my two weeks was up. This one I FINISHED! I liked it better than “Nickle Boys” which was really a very sad read. Yikes. What those boys went through. Anyhow, “Harlem Shuffle” was mainly about one character and how he went through his life in the 1960s. Very good.

The second book was “The Five Wounds” by Kirstin Valdez Quade. I only downloaded this because it was available to everyone at the library and I was still waiting for the next book I have on hold. It was part of some type of book club. This book is SO GOOD! I cringed through a lot of it but I just couldn’t put it down. It revolves around a dysfunctional extended Latinx family. One character is an alcoholic, another is a 15 year old mother, and a third has brain cancer. Like I said, some of the story just made me cringe–I kept telling them–“don’t do it”. But they did. Bad choices all around. I spent a lot of my sewing time reading this book. I highly recommend it.

And on to March, still waiting on books from the library so I might just have to read a book off of my shelf!