March 2020 Wrap-up
- monthly wrap-up
March TBR Pile (20/33):
- Book of the Month Club: One Day in December by Josie Silver
- BOTM: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
- Girly Book Club: Vox by Christina Dalcher ✓
- Friend Book Club: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow ✓
- Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
- UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Unread Shelf Random (Mar): 1776 by David McCullough
- Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- Goodreads To Read Random (Mar): Archaeology from Space by
- TBR Jar Random (Jan): The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
- TBR Jar Random (Feb): The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
- January Theme Wrap-up: Fever by Lauren DeStefano ✓
- February Theme Wrap-up: The Seduction of Lady X by Julia London ✓
- February Theme Wrap-up: Kindred by Octavia Butler ✓
- February Theme Wrap-up: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon ✓
- Theme 1: The Vagina Bible by Jen Gunter
- Theme 1: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay ✓
- Theme 1: How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran ✓
- Theme 2: Queen of Hearts of Rhys Bowen ✓
- Theme 2: The Secret Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams ✓
- Theme 2: Crocodile at the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters ✓
- Comic: The Complete Phonogram
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 9 ✓
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 10 ✓
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 11 ✓
- Comic: Rat Queens Vol. 7
- Library: Mythos by Stephen Fry ✓
- Library: After the Flood by Kassandra Montag ✓
- Series: The Night Country by Melissa Albert ✓
- Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
- Added: After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid ✓
- Added: The Story of the World in 100 Species by Christopher Lloyd ✓
- Added: Well Met by Jen DeLuca ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 6173 pages Pages Remaining: 554,755 pages
Current Read - The Vagina Bible by Jen Gunter
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (8)
I took advantage of a my birthday month free Book of the Month deal and got two books this month.
- The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
- All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace
I grabbed a clearance copy of Empress of the Seven Hills by Kate Quinn from Half Price Books.
For my birthday day out, I visited at cavern of a used bookstore. I limited myself to only buying five books. Seriously I could buy dozens from there. It’s the perfect bookstore of serendipity. I picked up:
- Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters
- The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- Sea of Glory by Nathanial Philbrick
- Buffalo Bill’s America by Louis S. Warren
April TBR Pile:
- Book of the Month Club: Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
- Girly Book Club: We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
- Friend Book Club: The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
- Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
- UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- UnRead Shelf Random (Mar): 1776 by David McCullough
- UnRead Shelf Random (April): Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
- Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- Goodreads To Read Random (Mar): Archaeology from Space by
- Goodreads To Read Random (April): Planetfall by Emma Newman
- TBR Jar Random (Jan): The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
- TBR Jar Random (April): The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
- March Theme Wrap-up: The Vagina Bible by Jen Gunter
- Theme 1: The Complete Phonogram
- Theme 1: Rat Queens Vol. 7
- Theme 1: The Oracle Code
- Theme 2: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
- Theme 2: Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
- Theme 2: All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace
- Ebook: Horrostor by Grady Hendrix
- Ebook: The Last Debutante by Julia London
- Scifi: Redshirts by John Scalzi
- Scifi: Planetfall by Emma Newman
UnRead Shelf Plans
For April, the prompt is the book you most recently acquired. I’ve gotten a few books in the past month; it was my birthday month. I decided to choose one of those books and I’m going with All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace. And here’s my ambitious UnRead Shelf TBR pile for April:
Movies watched
- Little Monsters - Delightful zombie movie!
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - The more I think about it, the less I like this movie.
- The Gentleman - Thankfully this was a return to the good Guy Ritchie movies.
- Birds of Prey - This was a lot more fun than I thought it would be.
TV Shows watched
- Last Week Tonight - We caught up before the show had to change format.
- The Magicians S5 - Last season… it has gutted me.
- Doctor Who - Decent season finale.
- Broadchurch S2 - Finally getting this season started.
- Superstore - We caught up.
Comments - Being forced to stay at home has definitely helped my reading life, but has been a detriment to my mental health. I need a better balance. Hoping to focus on picking books that I will enjoy (not “required” reading) and get myself in a better place.
Next up on the TBR pile:
