I’m a little late with my March book entry for The Year in Books. Despite only being two or three days shorter then the other months February always seems to fly by!

Last month I read and enjoyed Piper Kerman’s engaging memoir of her year in prison Orange is the New Black. Although very different from the Netflix television series of the same name the book offers an interesting and, one can’t help feeling, slightly more realistic portrait of life in a low security woman’s prison. It was a book that threw up many questions on the effectiveness of the justice system (both in the US and here).

This month I’m reading something completely different. It’s my choice for my book club (my real one that meets in a pub as opposed to this lovely yet virtual blogger one!) this month so I’ve chosen Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. I selected it before this beautiful sunshine came along following weeks of rain as I was seduced by the blurb describing a story set on the sun drenched Italian coast and in Hollywood.

A summer read in March essentially! I’ll let you know how I get on.