March wrap up - some brilliant books and a broken arm 

I love the sound of Blossomise Ros and the tea towel is lovely but yes, use and enjoy. What a good idea to embrace some comfort reads while in pain and I loved the Moomins too including the tv series. You’re making me all nostalgic! Hope you heal quickly!

So glad you loved Briefly, A Delicious Life. One of my absolute favourites!

You have really been through the mill with your shoulder. I found soldier sailor so relatable. Soo glad you are enjoying your April reading. I’m hoping to start my people april book today

Hi Roz. I hope you’re feeling much better. I suffer from chronic pain so I know it affects your reading. First of all, thank you for participating in March mystery madness. I have read Dennis Lehane before and I enjoyed shutter Island very much. I picked up the bee sting, but could not handle a book that size at that moment so I’m glad to hear it wasn’t for everyone. I’m very involved in people April and I’m enjoying it very much. I love your video. Aloha friend.

I hope you're healing up Ros x Several books I'm interested in here. Soldier sailor I'll definitely be reading soon. I'm very intrigued by briefly a delicious life. I've also been meaning to try Angie Kim's books for ages. I'm so glad you've read the heartstopper books!! I really enjoyed the housekeeper and the professor.

I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed Trollope on audio! I have access to the Timothy West recordings and really must start working my way forward. I loved The Warden-more than most people do-but somehow haven’t yet picked up the next one.

I love Moomins and the librarian at Nottingham library spotted my Moomin purse and appeared with a lovely biography of Tove Jansson on Friday that will be my next People April read 😊. Loved your wrap up. Hope your arm heals soon 😊

Hello Ros, so thrilled to learn more about UK authors through your channel and through this community. I feel like I am still stuck at Irish Murdoch, I have quite a collection of her books!

I would be hard pressed to use that towel - but would give in, or give away… because hating to see it get mucked up.

I hope you heal quickly! Take care.

Sana, sana, querida Ros. Here from Elisabeth's video where I heard about your arm. May you recover swiftly and completely.

I am still so sorry about your shoulder. I can only imagine the pain you have to endure. I would use the tea towels. Life is too short to only look at things or hide them in a drawer, if they could bring you joy, every time you use them.

Sending positive thoughts that you feel better soon. I agree with you about Western Lane. I don't understand the venom directed towards it. I found it gorgeous and so touching. Its portrayal of grief is extraordinary. I'm convinced that some people heard it advertised as a book about squash and they decided to hate it before reading it. Of all books to DNF and complain about? I really don't get it.

I read ”Briefly a delicious life” about a year ago . I can only highly recommend it. If you are interested in chopin’s life as well as george Sand’s. But what I really remember is the way the author ”penetrates” into her characters ’s brains. It’s a very moving novel. We share’s Bianca’s face in the 15th century, it’s also written with a lot of sensuality. A wonderful discovery for me French reader...and musician.

Hey Ros! I found your channel through Kelly at Books I'm Not Reading tagging us both in the Booktube Oldie tag and I'm so glad I came and checked out your channel as I loved listening to you chat about your month and the books you read! The Housekeeper and the Professor sounds wonderful - I don't read a lot outside of YA and middle grade, if I do it's usually sci-fi or romance but I do enjoy the odd adult fiction (especially weird ones such as Isaac and the Egg!) but I especially love Japanese fiction (admittedly usually the cat centred ones!) so I'll keep that one on my radar for when I'm in the mood for one of those quieter sorts of books, even with the maths element haha!

I'm doing a slow reading year this year but I did read 2 short books and both I would recommend, both very impactful and both very different. First one was the blue book of Nebo, it's YA and I read it for Dewithon, it's recommended by toomanyheathers formally soggyexpat and it is an amazing speculative post apocalyptic books. The second was minor detail, difficult to read in places but set in Palestine/Israel dual timeline and reading it made me want to get to enter ghost soon (it was already high up my list after your review of it earlier in the year). Hoping to try and get to a book for person April but not decided which yet (slow reading year means I'm trying to do just one book in a readathon) I've already read strong female character last year and was blown away by how open, honest and unreserved a memoir of her life and experiences being an undiagnosed and recently diagnosed autistic woman. She's a very talented writer and I hope she writes more. I'm tempted by Anne Lister's diaries or Virginia woolf and vita Sackville west's letters as I've not read diaries or letters collections before but I may decide to go for something shorter. Looking forward to your April reading. I hope your arm/shoulder are getting better Edit - forgot to mention both of those book have trigger warnings, if your interested but unsure then please check trigger warning from a source you trust.

👋 Rox. My best books of March were Solider Sailor by Claire Kilroy Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Haworth ( LGBTQI) Strong Female Character by Fern Brady ( Scottish comedians experience of late diagnosis of autism) Fayne by AnnMarie MacDonald Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad Stone Yard Devotional by Charolette Wood 🍀👋☘️📕☕️📚📖🇮🇪💐

I loved Western Lane. I read it last year when it was on the Booker list. Was it the Booker? We love the Moomin books in our house. My son is 15 and still likes to read them with me.

We might have to form an alliance of The Bee Sting haters. I loved Soldier Sailor. It was so brilliant and uncomfortable.