MARCH READING.

As you may know, I love reading. Ever since I was little I've often been found with my nose in a book. I love entering another story and universe, the freedom it brings to read a book, cover to cover. At the start of the year I put together a little thing called "19 for 19", an idea from the author Gretchen Rubin. I got the idea from her podcast "Happier", check out this link for a general idea of the project! I've um-ed an ah-ed about sharing my list here, somehow it feels really personal? Anyway, one of my things was to start a Goodreads account, and to set this years reading challenge to 30 books (read 28 last year, without really trying, so I figured I'd start easy). I'm already on 11, so well on my way to success! Maybe I should have started these summaries in January, but I only just thought of it now, but better late than never, right??  Here's what I've read in March so far! 🤓 Agnes Cecilia, by Maria Gripe  I started the month with a childhood favourite! Goodreads describes it as so: "After experiencing several inexplicable incidents, lonely Nora receives a strangely lifelike doll, which leads her to discover long-hidden secrets about her family."Lots of spooky things start to happen when Nora moves in to an old apartment together with her adoptive family, she starts hearing steps and music coming from the next room, an old broken clock starts ticking backwards, a mysterious doll seems to change facial expressions every time she looks at it. A beautiful, melancholy and yes, spooky, story. I loved it as a child and loved it equally as much as an adult. Read everyone!!  Thanks a lot Mr Kibblewhite, by Roger DaltreyRoger Daltrey was the frontman of The Who and this is his story! Fans have been waiting for years for this book apparently, I didn't know much about him at all - which of course made this really interesting to me. I particularly liked the early parts of the book, him growing up in a suburb of London in the 40s and 50s, in a working class family, working in a factory and basically doing anything he could to 1. put food on the table and 2. play music. It's very clear that it's him writing the actual story, you can really hear his voice all through it. Some biographies are so clearly just a collection of interviews, but this felt personal and real. A good read!  I de lugnaste vatten or Still Waters in English, by Viveca StenI've said this before, but I love Swedish detective novels. I do realise that I'm partial, but I really think that no other nationality does it better. This story takes place in the archipelago of Stockholm, a summer paradise where people are suddenly turning up dead. It's the first book in a series about the main characters (but you still get the solution of this particular case in the book, phew), I'd happily read more! A quick, exciting read. The only thing I don't know is how these Swedish books translate?? Would be interesting to hear from someone who had read this or something similar in English.  Fargo Rock City, by Chuck Klosterman And this is what I'm reading now! I've just started today so am only a chapter in, but it looks very promising I must say. What are you reading? Are there any fellow bookworms out there? Or as we say in Swedish, reading lice? Sounds so wrong in English, haha.