March 2025 Wrap-up

March TBR Pile (24/25):

1. Bookworms BC: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ✓
2. Friend BC: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld ✓
3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis ✓
4. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle ✓
5. Kid Book Club: The Elephant in the Room by Holly Goldberg Sloan ✓
6. Kid Read Aloud: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin ✓
7. Kid Read Aloud: Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
8. Romance: A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire by Sarah Hawley ✓
9. Romance: My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine ✓
10. Romance: Deep End by Ali Hazelwood ✓
11. Romance: The Demon’s Bargain by Katee Robert ✓
12. Fantasy: The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab ✓
13. Nonfiction: The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair ✓
14. SciFi: All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall ✓
15. SciFi: Fragments by Dan Wells ✓
16. SciFi: Ruins by Dan Wells ✓
17. Comics: Moonshine Vol. 2 ✓
18. Comics: Moonshine Vol. 3 ✓
19. Comics: Moonshine Vol. 4 ✓
20. Comics: Moonshine Vol. 5 ✓
21. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 1 ✓
22. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 2 ✓
23. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 3 ✓
24. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 4 ✓
25. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 1 ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal

Monthly Total: 6526 pages Pages Remaining: 171,522 pages

Current Read - Sex Criminals Vol. 5 and 6; Parasyte Vol. 2 and beyond; Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 1 and beyond

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (11) - It’s my birthday month which is always a good time for buying lots of books.

From online, I ordered

• Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

From Book of the Month, I ordered

• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• Jane and Dan at the end of the World by Colleen Oakley
• Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven

On my birthday day out, I bought (some kids books and homeschool resources that I’m not detailing here)

• Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
• Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
• 1421 by Gavin Menzies
• Wicked Pursuit by Katee Robert
• Divine Intervention by KM Virtues
• Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
• Lady Mechanika Vol. 8

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 289
• Books Read: 0
• Books Acquired: 11
• Books Unshelved: 0
• Finishing Number: 300

April TBR Pile:

1. Bookworms BC: (not reading)
2. Friend BC: The Secret Book of Flora Lee by Patti Callahan Henry
3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Dawn by Octavia Butler
4. Kid Book Club: (not reading)
5. Kid Read Aloud: Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
6. Kid Read Aloud: Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
7. Romance: The Demon’s Queen by Katee Robert
8. Fantasy: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
9. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 5
10. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 6
11. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 2
12. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 3
13. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 4
14. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 5
15. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 6
16. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 7
17. Comics: Parayste Vol. 8
18. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 1
19. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 2
20. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 3
21. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1 01
22. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1 02
23. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1 03

Movies Watched

• No Country for Old Men
• Nosferatu
• Stardust - Rewatch with the kids

TV Shows Watched

• Last Week Tonight
• Clone High (2022)
• The Bachelor
• Below Deck: Down Under
• Interview with a Vampire S1
• Dimension 20: Fantasy High S1
• Um, Actually
• Alice in Borderland S1
• SKZ Code S1
• Kingpin Katie
• Stray Kids Survival Show
• Stray Kids Two Kids Room (2019) Vol. 1-3

Comments - My reading has suffered from my current mental state, but I did find a work around: MANGA! I checked out multiple manga series and have been slowly working through them. I think April is going to be a month of manga.

Next up on the TBR pile: