Pick Three (3) Mini Challenge - March 2020

Good things come in groups of 3. This should encourage us all to read books from different genres, series or authors. The options are endless! This is ideal as a short challenge to complete each month, which is very doable, and can be combined with books from other challenges. You may choose your 3 as 1 from 3 different topics just as long as you end up with 3 different books.

It's simple and it's FUN.

SO...LET'S PICK THREE!

During The Month of March... LET'S PICK THREE (3).
In honor of March and all it has to offer…

St, Patrick’s Day is March 17….
1. Pick 3 books that take place in Ireland OR Are by Irish authors. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/irish-authors

March is the beginning of spring but can also have iffy weather…
2. Pick 3 books that have the word “wind”, “rain” or “spring” in the title
(you may combine 3 books with one word from each of the above)

Easter sometimes falls in March with pretty dresses and colored eggs…
3. Pick 3 books that have pastel covers (blue, pink, green, or yellow)

Some of our favorite authors have birthdays in March…
4. Pick 3 books by authors born in the month of March.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/22455.By_Authors_with_March_Birthdays

March shares two signs of the Zodiac…Aries the ram and Taurus the bull
5. Pick 3 books by authors whose last initial can be found in either ARIES or TAURUS,\.

📌 - ★
Carol Pick's 3 in honor of St. Patricks Day

3/3 -DONE
Pick 3 books that have the word “wind”, “rain” or “spring” in the title
📌1.Nights of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchy - 3★
📌2.What the Wind Knows - Amy Harmon - 3.5★
📌3.Home to Holly Springs- Jan Karon - 3★

3/3 - DONE
Pick 3 books that take place in Ireland OR Are by Irish authors.
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/irish-authors
📌1.The Wych Elm - Tana French - 4★
📌2.Teacher Man - Frank McCourt - 5★
📌3.Can Anybody Help Me? - Sinéad Crowley - 3★

All take place in Ireland and they are all Irish authors.

Pick 3 books by authors whose last initial can be found in either ARIES or TAURUS 📚📚

1. A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni - I in Aries ✔
The Missing Years by Lexie Elliott - T in Taurus ➡moving to another time
3. The Hiding Place by C.J. Tudor - R in Aries and Taurus ✔

I have to change my #2 book, I received it as an ER this month and wanted to finish it.
2. Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas - S in Aries and Taurus ✔

I hope these are what you had in mind since I combined the Zodiacs.

I am sorry, I almost feel like I cheated to get this challenge done. Please don't look to unfavorably on me. I had the best intentions March 1st.

Various Vibrant Volumes are Vying to be in this Vivacious and Very Vivid letter V challenge in March

1. Read a book where a word in the title starts with the letter “V”. Voyager in Night ✔

2. Read a book where at least one of the author’s initials is “V”. A E Van Vogt - Slan

3. Read a book with something starting with the letter “V” shown on the cover : a wedding veil - Un- Veiled by Eileen Rendahl ✔

three book genres

1. Kate Douglas Wiggin - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (junior classic) ✔

2. Charles Stross - The Labyrinth Index (urban fantasy) ✔

3. Earl Derr Biggers - Behind That Curtain(vintage crime) ✔

Only 2 challenges at the moment. have had several birthdays in the family.on 21st,26th Feb and a son and daughter's birthdays due on 4th and 6th March.Everyone piles into my house of course sheer bedlam results.lol. Then big surprise,my third great grandchild,a boy came 2 weeks early yesterday.A leap year baby.:0) Add on Mother's Day on 22nd (we'll be three generations of mothers! Yay! ) you can see why reading is on the backburner.I'm down from 16-18 books a month to around 12!! :0)

Alrighty then! Scoured the shelves and found 3 books set in Ireland by three different authors in two different genres:

1) Ferocious Irish Women by Edmund Lenihan (brief bios of Irish women at different periods of history) ✔

2) Daughter of Ireland by Juliene Osborne-McKnight (historical fiction based on the legendary Finn Mac Cumhail) ✔

3) Blade of Fortriu by Juliet Marillier (historical fiction based on the Picti king of Scotland, Bridei) will put off till another time. Instead:

3) Irish Folk Tales edited by Henry Glassie ✔

Heck, I may even get some areas of our Across the Pond challenge filled in with these choices!

>6 threadnsong: Scouring always works. I get so interested in everything that I forget what I was looking for in the first place:) You might find my grandmother in that first one Ferocious Irish Women My grandfather used to say that she was the weapon he would want to take to a bar fight.

>3 marykuhl: You are fine. You can combine the zodiac.

>7 Carol420: I hope, if I did find your grandmother, that her tale was told much better than the book (review to come on the March page)! There most certainly were some great, strong, ferocious women in Ireland. Glad your grandmother was among them and I hope that you take after her though not in the bar fight way ;)

BTW, has anyone on this thread read this poem by a Capuchin Irish priest? It feels very timely and was penned on St. Patrick's Day. I think he would approve:

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/coronavirus-lockdown-poem

Me, I still haven't been able to read it without tears.

Author's last initials can be found in TAURUS:

1) 4 March 2020 - Nine Lessons - Nicola Upson 4.5★s
2) 8 March 2020 - Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler 4.5★s
3) 31 March 2020 - A Pale Horse - Charles Todd 4★s

>7 Carol420: OK, Carol, I have the book for you from this month's theme! While Ferocious Irish Women fell flat on its face (spine??) I highly recommend Irish Folk Tales by Henry Glassie. It contains many, many tales of ghosts and the origins of the Will o' the Wisp, as well as a goodly number of women: mothers, crones, wives, and fairies. And Lady Gregory was one of the collectors of these tales. The dialect is very, very Irish, too.

Author's last name initial can be found in TAURUS:

--Anthony Trollope, The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson
--Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility: An annotated Edition
--D. E. Stevenson, The Young Clementina