March always brings with it the promise of longer days, greenery, birdsong, and helps me perk up from dreary February. Below are recommendations (which may include spoilers) of some of the books I’ve been reading this month:

Book Girl, by Sarah Clarkson – Part autobiographical, part book lists, this work helps the reader understand the importance of books and how they change and shape our lives. Even though I have already read a number of the works mentioned in the lists, there are so many mentioned that I am happy to keep Book Girl as a resource of inspiration and reference.

Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis, by C. S. Lewis – I mentioned in my post on Lent that ‘this book combines excerpts from his works with Scripture readings that help the mind focus on this time in the Church calendar.’ Having almost finished this book of excerpts I can say with certainty that I will have it in my reading rotation for years to come. Some of the excerpts are from works I had never heard of but have now added to my ‘to read’ list.

The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”, by C. S. Lewis – The third book (in publication order) in The Chronicles of Narnia finds Lucy and Edmund back in their beloved Narnia and sailing on a voyage with King Caspian. Each chapter is fairly episodic, which has been a criticism of the story. I, however, enjoy the different pacing from the first two books. This is an excellent read aloud.