March TBR Pile (20/33):

1. Book of the Month Club: One Day in December by Josie Silver

2. BOTM: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver

3. Girly Book Club: Vox by Christina Dalcher ✓

4. Friend Book Club: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow ✓

5. Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

6. UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

7. Unread Shelf Random (Mar): 1776 by David McCullough

8. Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

9. Goodreads To Read Random (Mar): Archaeology from Space by

10. TBR Jar Random (Jan): The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn

11. TBR Jar Random (Feb): The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams

12. January Theme Wrap-up: Fever by Lauren DeStefano ✓

13. February Theme Wrap-up: The Seduction of Lady X by Julia London ✓

14. February Theme Wrap-up: Kindred by Octavia Butler ✓

15. February Theme Wrap-up: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon ✓

16. Theme 1: The Vagina Bible by Jen Gunter

17. Theme 1: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay ✓

18. Theme 1: How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran ✓

19. Theme 2: Queen of Hearts of Rhys Bowen ✓

20. Theme 2: The Secret Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams ✓

21. Theme 2: Crocodile at the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters ✓

22. Comic: The Complete Phonogram

23. Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 9 ✓

24. Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 10 ✓

25. Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 11 ✓

26. Comic: Rat Queens Vol. 7

27. Library: Mythos by Stephen Fry ✓

28. Library: After the Flood by Kassandra Montag ✓

29. Series: The Night Country by Melissa Albert ✓

30. Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

31. Added: After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid ✓

32. Added: The Story of the World in 100 Species by Christopher Lloyd ✓

33. 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:

1. Book of the Month Club: Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

2. Girly Book Club: We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

3. Friend Book Club: The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams

4. Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

5. UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

6. UnRead Shelf Random (Mar): 1776 by David McCullough

7. UnRead Shelf Random (April): Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

8. Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

9. Goodreads To Read Random (Mar): Archaeology from Space by

10. Goodreads To Read Random (April): Planetfall by Emma Newman

11. TBR Jar Random (Jan): The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn

12. TBR Jar Random (April): The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

13. March Theme Wrap-up: The Vagina Bible by Jen Gunter

14. Theme 1: The Complete Phonogram

15. Theme 1: Rat Queens Vol. 7

16. Theme 1: The Oracle Code

17. Theme 2: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

18. Theme 2: Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

19. Theme 2: All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace

20. Ebook: Horrostor by Grady Hendrix

21. Ebook: The Last Debutante by Julia London

22. Scifi: Redshirts by John Scalzi

23. 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: