Books of March

Due to feeling like crap for much of the month, I did almost no writing but I managed quite a bit of reading. Funny though, I thought I'd read more non-fiction than this.

Newly read

Recently read books rated at Goodreads

Non-fiction

The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery ~ Maureen Waller
The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters ~ Norma Clarke
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed ~ Judith Flanders
London: The Executioner's City ~ David Brandon
The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: Encounters with Heroes of the English Language, from the Earl of Sandwich to Joseph P. Frisbie ~ Philip Dodd

Fiction

Died in the Wool ~ Ngaio Marsh
Final Curtain ~ Ngaio Marsh
Swing, Brother, Swing ~ Ngaio Marsh
The Documents in the Case ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1) ~ Edmund Crispin
The Listerdale Mystery ~ Agatha Christie  
Opening Night ~ Ngaio Marsh
Spinsters in Jeopardy ~ Ngaio Marsh
Scales of Justice ~ Ngaio Marsh
A Certain Slant of Light ~ Laura Whitcomb
The Hound of Death ~ Agatha Christie
Holy Disorders (Gervase Fen, #2) ~ Edmund Crispin
Off with His Head ~ Ngaio Marsh
Singing in the Shrouds ~ Ngaio Marsh
False Scent ~ Ngaio Marsh
Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1) ~ P.D. James
A Mind To Murder (Adam Dalgliesh, #2) ~ P.D. James
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) ~ Kerry Greenwood
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ~ Agatha Christie
Ordeal by Innocence ~ Agatha Christie
A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford, #1) ~ Charles Todd
Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2) ~ Kerry Greenwood
The Religious Body ~ Catherine Aird

Rereads

I know I reread a few books this month, such as Sparkling Cyanide and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie. But I can't remember what the others were.

New reads: 28 (yay!)
Rereads: 2+?

As to books acquired this month ... um, yeah. I mentioned the Borders sale, right? Books sales are dangerous. I came home from the Rotary and library sales last year with about 50 books all together. And this was even more dangerous because I wasn't expecting it! I had no time to prepare my defences! (Not that I really have any defences against books ...)

Book Depository

The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery ~ Maureen Waller
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed ~ Judith Flanders 

Off With His Head with Singing In The Shrouds and False Scent ~ Ngaio Marsh
The Duke of Shadows ~ Meredith Duran
Holy Disorders (Gervase Fen, #2) ~ Edmund Crispin

Borders sale

Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola: a whole lot of stuff about Birdwatching ~ Sean Dooley
The Invention of Air ~ Steven Johnson
In The Devil's Garden: a Sinful History of Forbidden Food ~ Stewart Lee Allen
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief ~ Lewis Wolpert
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 ~ Stephen Inwood
The Botany of Desire ~ Michael Pollan
The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook ~ Mireille Guiliano
London: The Executioner's City ~ David Brandon and Alan Brooke
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives ~ Marilee Strong
A Merciless Place: the lost story of Britain's convict disaster in Africa and how it led to the settlement of Australia ~ Emma Christopher
Tasmania's Convicts: how felons built a free society ~ Alison Alexander
Life & Death in the Age of Sail: the passage to Australia ~ Robin Haines
Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 ~ Jon Savage
Spook ~ Mary Roach
The Battle For God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ~ Karen Armstrong
A History of Venice ~ John Julius Norwich
Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir ~ Joe Bageant

Wonders of a Godless World ~ Andrew McGahan
Masques ~ Patricia Briggs
The Giver ~ Lois Lowry
I Shall Wear Midnight ~ Terry Pratchett  
Young Miles ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Cotillion ~ Georgette Heyer (replacement copy)
A Blunt Instrument ~ Georgette Heyer (replacement copy)
The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side ~ Agatha Christie
A Mind to Murder ~ P.D. James 

I think that's all? I could never have afforded them otherwise?

Books acquired: 31

Huh. Not as many as I thought. No worse than my other book sale sprees. Just more hardcovers.