Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie (April 30-May 7)
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic by George Seaver (May 7-14)
My Life of Adventure by Norman D. Vaughan (May 14-17)
With Byrd at Bottom of World by Norman D. Vaughan (May 18-21)
Avalanche by Patrick F. McManus (May 22-25)
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie (May 27-29)

Six books, woohoo! It surprised me to learn that tough Birdie Bowers was afraid of spiders! Here's a passage I found amusing (and that I could relate to lol):

"I woke at 1 a.m. and opened my eyes wide - you can guess what it was, but you can't guess what I felt like. Not 3 inches from my nose and making straight for my cheek was the incarnation of my conception of the blackest and most horrible fiend the powers of darkness can produce. I did not utter a sound but if ever a man got out of a bunk with alacrity I was out of mine. Fast as the huge tarantula was he had only covered about 6 inches before we faced each other for a war to the death. ... I grabbed a shoe, but I hadn't the pluck to dab him with that...I wasn't going to risk a miss though, and running out got hold of a hard broom. When I came back he was gone. I have searched in vain, but there are so many cracks and crannies especially under the washstand...that bunk - or any other in that cabin - will never see my sleeping form again. It seems a long yarn about nothing, but I would rather dive on to the back of a 16-ft. shark than face that awful thing. I could see its hairs in the dark"

Yeah, I wouldn't sleep there either. Yikes! D: Poor Birdie lol

( June 1: The Blue Hour )

Today's trivia: Every British queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned