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March 2021 Wrap-up

March TBR Pile (19/24):

  1. Book of the Month Club: TBD

  2. Girly Book Club: Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown

  3. Friend Book Club: Dangerous Women by Hope Adams

  4. MMD RC: Still Life by Louise Penny

  5. MMD RC: I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman

  6. Nonfiction: Walkable City by Jeff Speck

  7. Nonfiction: From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

  8. Romance: Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

  9. Romance: Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt

  10. Romance: Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt

  11. Fantasy: A Vow of Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer

  12. Fantasy: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

  13. Fantasy: Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

  14. Thriller: Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

  15. Science Fiction: Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

  16. Kid Read Aloud: Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar ✓

  17. Kid Read Aloud: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie ✓

  18. Added: To Sir Phillip With Love by Julia Quinn

  19. Added: When He was Wicked by Julia Quinn

  20. Added: It’s in His Kiss by Julia Quinn

  21. Added: Librarian Tales by William Otten

  22. Added: Once Upon a Moonlit Night by Elizabeth Hoyt

  23. Added: Once Upon a Christmas Eve by Elizabeth Hoyt

  24. Added: Once Upon a Maiden Lane by Elizabeth Hoyt

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 5537 pages
Pages Remaining: 484,888 pages

Current Read - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig; Outlawed by Anna North; Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (4)

Using my birthday gift cards, I bought two comic trades:

  • Lady Mechanika Vol. 5

  • Lady Mechanika Vol. 6

And I picked up two Book of the Month books:

  • The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

  • The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George

UnRead Shelf Progress

  • Starting Number: 276

  • Books Read: 2

  • Books Acquired: 4

  • Books Unshelved: 8

  • Finishing Number: 270

April TBR Pile:

  1. Book of the Month Club: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

  2. BOTM: The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George

  3. Girly Book Club: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

  4. Friend Book Club: Outlawed by Anna North

  5. MMD RC: Still Life by Louise Penny

  6. MMD RC: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

  7. MMD RC: The Switch by Beth O’Leary

  8. Nonfiction: In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick

  9. Fantasy: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

  10. Fantasy: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

  11. Fantasy: Alice by Christina Henry

  12. Fantasy: All the Tides of Fate by Adalyn Grace

  13. Science Fiction: Robots and Empires by Isaac Asimov

  14. Science Fiction: Sea Change by Nancy Kress

  15. Romance: On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn

  16. Romance: Bridgerton Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn

  17. Kid Read Aloud: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

  18. Kid Read Aloud: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid

Movies watched

  • Raya and the Last Dragon - The settings and backgrounds were absolutely gorgeous. The story wasn’t quite hitting all the emotional notes.

  • Pixie - Enjoyed this black comedy! We unintentionally watched this for St. Patrick’s Day.

TV Shows watched 

  • Last Week Tonight - Our usual current show

  • Below Deck Med S5 - Still love Captain Sandy, but man that was a season full of firings!

  • Superstore S6 - We finished it!

  • WandaVision S1 - Heartbreaking, but oh so good.

  • Resident Alien S1 - Delightfully weird show. We watch anything with Alan Tudyk in it!

  • Falcon and the Winter Solider S1 - We are totally in on this show.

  • Ted Lasso S1 - This was exactly the show that I needed right now. It’s so incredibly hopeful!

  • AP Bio S1 - J had me start this one and it is good. It’s the cynical opposite of Ted Lasso.

Comments - A surprisingly great reading month. I read some duds, but I also finished a great (very large) historical romance story and almost finished another one. We also managed to watch some great TV series (seriously Ted Lasso is life!). Looking to April to decrease my library books and read more from my shelves. This should be helped by the fact that both book club books I actually own and am prioritizing.

Next up on the TBR pile: