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March Wrap Up

Books Completed (ratings out of five stars)

Educated by Tara Westover (begun in February, ★★★)

The weight of feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore (begun in February, ★★★)

Serpent & dove by Shelby Mahurin (Serpent & dove #1, ★★★★)

All the bad apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (★★★)

The Hunger Games* by Suzanne Collins, audiobook read by Tatiana Maslany (The Hunger Games #1, ★★★★★)

Books currently in progress

Ace of shades (The Shadow Game #1) * by Amanda Foody, audiobook read by Saskia Maarleveld

Catching fire (The Hunger Games #2) * by Suzanne Collins, audiobook read by Tatiana Maslany

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The gilded wolves (The gilded wolves #1) by Roshani Chokshi

*reread

Challenge and Game Participation

Completed Historical Fantasy Fiction Bookcub Recommends quiz on listchallenges.com, set by @bookcub​ (my result on Tumblr here)

Completed the Queer Books Bookcub Recommends quiz on listchallenges.com, set by @bookcub​ (my result on Tumblr here)

Answered @lizziethereader​’s Weekly Bookish Question #173 (March 22nd-28th) - If you’re currently quarantined or self-isolating, what effect does that have on your tbr? (my response)

Tag Game - Name Your Top 5 Female Characters from novels you’ve read, tagged by @karynlibrarian​ (my response)

Ask Game – Some new bookish asks for you all, tagged by @elfspectations​ (my responses)

Shelf Confidence Book Photography, March, Day 10: Archenemies (set by @myownlittlebookcorner​)

 Answered @lizziethereader​’s Weekly Bookish Question #171 (March 8th – March 14th) – Have you already tried something new this year? A new genre, reading spot, reading project,.…? (my response)

Completed Aliteraryprincess’s 100 Best Books in YA Literature quiz on listchallenges.com, set by @aliteraryprincess (my result on Tumblr here, see my tags)

TBR Buster Challenge, set by @bookbandit​ – completed The weight of feathers

GoodReads 2020 Reading Challenge – 19 books out of 70 (27%) completed. According to GoodReads, I’m 2 books ahead of schedule. That’s 1 book down from last month where I was 3 books ahead of schedule.

Reading (and reading-related) Goals for April

Before I begin this, I should say that I’m currently in near-lockdown conditions where I am thanks to the dreaded COVID-19 outbreak, so that means I have less of an excuse not to achieve this month’s goals. And the next month – and the next…

Finish all the books currently in progress, especially the audiobooks

Read Slay by Kim Curran. It involves a boy band who have a side job as demon-slayers. Not my usual fare, but it got good reviews so it should be a fun, light read.

Read at least 1 book from my backlist

As ever, participate in at least one bookish challenge or game

MAYBE start doing reviews now I have more time to do so. Don’t hold your breath though.

Update the spreadsheet I’m using to track my reading

Try my hand at making moodboards. I have said I’d do this previously, but this time I’m really going to do it. Time to start exercising those graphic-making muscles again!

Make a start on my last book purchases this month – The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and a non-fiction book, On the Trail of Genghis Khan: an epic journey through the land of the nomads by Tim Cope. The latter book is a written account of Cope’s overland trip from Mongolia to Hungary, a trip documented in a TV series I watched some time ago and really enjoyed.

Make a start on Mockingjay as read by Tatiana Maslany. I have no doubt her work will again be excellent.

Reflections on March’s Reading Goals

Despite my not actually reading as many books this month, I did complete all but one of my reading goals, so yay me!

Didn’t start reading Northanger Abbey until the end of March and am still reading in April, so there goes that resolution. Hopefully, I should finish it by the end of this month though.

New Followers

36 new followers! Thanks one and all – as ever, know I appreciate every single one of you and please feel free to get in touch. This goes for my rusted-on followers as well – I promise I don’t bite!

Interesting observations

So I didn’t read as many books this month – instead, I thought about what books I wanted to read! That counts, right?  On a more serious note, I do want to read more that I’m under near-lockdown conditions.

On the strength of her reading of The Hunger Games trilogy, Tatiana Maslany needs to do more audiobooks. As a side note, I’ve started watching Orphan Black and it’s creepily disturbing, but so good! Thank you, Ms. Maslany!

Audiobooks seem to be a theme for me this month – I also started rereading Amanda Foody’s Ace of Shades, read by Saskia Maarleveld. I’ve downloaded Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid to listen to at some point, as it features a stellar voice cast and is – from what I’ve heard – the best way to appreciate this book.

In a review I wrote a couple of months ago, I described myself as a convert to the cult of Alice Oseman. This month I started reading Radio Silence and I have to say I’m a bit disappointed – don’t get me wrong, it’s still very well-written but it doesn’t have the same knock-out punch that I was born for this had.

That’s a wrap for March! I hope you’re all keeping well both physically and mentally during these challenging times. On to April!