March 2019 Wrap-up
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- monthly wrap-up
March TBR Pile (27/37):
- Book of the Month Club: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
- Girly Book Club: A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa ✓
- Friend Book Club: A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza ✓
- UnRead Shelf Pick: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
- Random TBR Pick: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (iPad) ✓
- Series Pick: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness ✓
- Series Pick: Cloaked in Malice by Annette Blair
- Series Pick: The Battersea Barricades by Jodi Taylor (iPad) ✓
- Series Pick: The Steam Pump Jump by Jodi Taylor (iPad) ✓
- Monthly Keyword (Emerald): Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix ✓
- Monthly Motif (Royalty, Government, Empires): TBD
- Comic: Alex + Ada Vol. 1 ✓
- Comic: Alex + Ada Vol. 2 ✓
- Comic: Alex + Ada Vol. 3 ✓
- Comic: Umbrella Academy Vol. 1
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 2 ✓
- Comic: Paper Girls Vol. 5 ✓
- Romance: P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han ✓
- Romance: A Counterfeit Betrothal / The Notorious Rake by Mary Balogh ✓
- Horror: The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay ✓
- Science Fiction: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- Nonfiction: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- Nonfiction: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty ✓
- Young Adult: Paper Towns by John Green ✓
- Young Adult: Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
- HP Year-Long ReRead: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Added: And Then You Die of Dysentery by Lauren Reeves ✓
- Added: Road to Riverdale Vol. 1 ✓
- Added: Road to Riverdale Vol. 2 ✓
- Added: Road to Riverdale Vol. 3 ✓
- Added: The Beauty Vol. 1 ✓
- Added: The Beauty Vol. 2 ✓
- Added: The Beauty Vol. 3 ✓
- Added: The Beauty Vol. 4 ✓
- Added: Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield ✓
- Added: Growing Season by Melanie Legaschulte ✓
- Added: Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 6105 pages Pages Remaining: 620,947 pages
Current Read - Cloaked in Malice by Annette Blair; The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (5) - It was my birthday month and I took myself to Half Price Books for some goodies. I only paid $15, so good bargain shopping!
- Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda Quick
- The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
Aprils TBR Pile:
- Book of the Month Club: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- Girly Book Club: Fight or Flight by Samantha Young
- Friend Book Club: TBD
- UnRead Shelf Pick: Ghostland by Colin Dickey
- Random TBR Pick: Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco (not pictured)
- Series Pick: And Now for Something Different by Jodi Taylor (iPad)
- Monthly Keyword (All): Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (not pictured)
- Monthly Motif (Mystery): Cloaked in Malice by Annette Blair
- Comic: Lady Mechanika Vol. 3
- Comic: Umbrella Academy Vol. 1 (not pictured)
- Ebook: The Magnolia Inn by Carolyn Brown (iPad)
- Ebook: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (iPad)
- Historical Fiction: The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams
- Short Stories: How Long ‘Til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin (not pictured)
- Nonfiction: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- Nonfiction: Atlas of the Unexpected by Travis Elborough
- Nonfiction: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux
- Young Adult: Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
- Contemporary Fiction: The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (not pictured)
- Mystery: Tulle Death Do Us Part by Annette Blair
- HP Year-Long ReRead: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- HP Year-Long ReRead: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movies watched
- Isn’t It Romantic — Pretty good, although I wish they would have leaned in a bit more.
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Night — Interesting documentary. Love all the concert footage I’ve never seen.
- Aquaman — Much better than I thought it would be…
- Quartermass and the Pit — More horror and science fiction this time. Loved it!
- Iron Man - We started rewatching all of the Marvel movies.
- Iron Man 2 - I haven’t watched this one in years. Not as bad as I thought, but not amazing…
- Thor - Oh goodness! This movie needed way more Loki…
- Captain America - Good, but I think Winter Soldier is far superior.
TV Shows watched - Just the usual. Nothing too exciting.
Comments - Another amazing reading month! I really think I should up my GoodReads goal to 215 (up from the current 175). I knocked off a few from my TBR pile and a ton of library books. Hoping to read more from my own shelves in the next two months, but I need to reinstitute my library ban…
Next up on the TBR pile:
