March novel-reading

[garran]

Somebody told me once that at some point the year, which had previously started in April, switched over to January, and after that the people who forgot and went around wishing a happy new year on April 1st were called the April fools -- hence the day. (I don't remember who it was that told me this; or rather, I remember it being one of my parents, but both of them deny it.) Eventually it occurred to me that this almost certainly wasn't true, but I accepted it unexamined until I was surprisingly old.

Anyway, books.

Pamela Dean, Juniper, Gentian and Rosemary (reread)
John M. Ford, Growing Up Weightless
Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom & Necessity (reread)
Sean Stewart, Nobody's Son
Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword
Sarah Monette, Mélusine
Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday
C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun: Kesrith

Comments

[zuki-san.livejournal.com]

It's sort-of plausible. The astrological year, and a pagan or old-school nature-based calendar or two start on March 23--the first day of spring. April 1st's not far off from that. And it does make sense to start things off when the new things are growing and day and dark are in balance.