This month I have mostly been reading - March

March's reading was quite a mixed bag really.

1. 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
This was one of the carry-overs from February. I decided I wanted to read the book first, and so all of a sudden had to get hold of a copy and read it. It did take me a while to get into it, but once I had got into it I found myself wondering what was going to happen next in between readings.

2. 'Stardust' by Neil Gaiman.
I did this one the other way around, reading the book ages after seeing the film. As adaptations go I think they made a really good job of it - there was a real sense of delight at times, reading sections that I remembered from the film. The two are very different, Captain Shakespeare for instance is a notable absentee from the book, but that didn't stop me from devouring the book as quickly as I could.

3. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman.
I loved 'Coraline'. I did think it was interesting though that I'd read a quote suggesting that adults found it scary and children found it a great adventure. I could see both in it, though more adventure - it made me wonder what the age boundary was for this adult/child divide.

4. 'Captain Britain and MI:13 - Secret Invasion' by Paul Cornell.
'Secret Invasion' collects the first four issues of the series written by Paul Cornell. It does assume some previous knowledge, but I don't have any of that. Bit by bit though I was able to work out who people were, what they did and who they were to each other. Very quickly I found myself entirely wrapped up in the story - I'll definitely be buying the next installment.

5. 'My Fabulous Divorce' by Clare Dowling.
I bought this in Sainsbury's for £1.50, and I'm really glad that's all I spent on it. It tells the tale of a woman going through a divorce so that she can marry the new man of her dreams. All the way through it appears that maybe she doesn't want to get divorced, her former husband certainly does. It was very frustrating, and I just didn't enjoy it very much.