#march 2025 reading wrap up

[the---hermit]

March 2025 reading wrap up

I was not expecting so many books this month, but I guess those are the consequences of the big return of audiobooks in my life! I had missed listening to audiobooks and my overall lack of energies this month made me pick the habit back up, and I am having a great time! It was overall a lovely month of reading. It was quite chaotic, but I feel like it perfectly represents my goal of embracing whatever feels natural in my reading life. I picked books up, let them go, paused stuff, had some rereads, found my love for audiobooks again, a lot happened, but I am happy. This proves that letting myself be chaotic and just listening to my needs in reading makes a great reading time, which is exactly the point of my yearly goal of no goals, and just going with what feels the most natural.

Books read:

Cultish by Amanda Montell (audiobook)

The Decagon House Murders by Ayatsuji Yukito

A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers (audiobook) (reread)

The Lord Of The Flies - the graphic novel adaptation by W. Golding and illustrated by A. De Jongh

Nimona by ND Stevenson (reread)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faries by Heather Fawcett (audiobook)

Deadendia: The Watcher's Test by Hamish Steele (reread) (read this for the trans rights readathon)

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irvin (audiobook)

Deadendia: The Broken Halo by Hamish Steele (reread) (trans rights readathon read)

Dnf:

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (when I started it I was having a good time but by the end it became a painful task. I risked a reading slump. This was way too long and slow. I doubt I will attempt to read another Grady Hendrix book in the future)

Paused:

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (I read around 60 pages, was loving it, but I realized how emotionally heavy it is going to be, and I am not at all in the right headspace to deal with those kind of emotions. So I decided to pause it and save it for when I'll feel a bit stronger emotionally)

Current reads (books I have not necessarly started on March but I have been reading and haven't finished yet):

Re:carmilla (audio adaptation of Carmilla by S. Le Fanu)

Emily Wilde's Map Of Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (I actually finished it today but it is the new month so I won't include it in the reads for March)

[toopunkrockforshul]

[godzilla-reads]

🌸 March Reading Wrap Up 🌸

Hello there! I had a fun time reading this month and wanted to share with you some of the books I read, my Top Three Choices having a star next to them:

🐱 The Lions of Valletta by Ursula Murray Husted

🐲 A Natural History of Dragons by Emily Hawkins

🐉 Stories of Dragons by Gillian Doherty & Linda Edwards

📖 Franklin’s Flying Bookshop by Jen Campbell

🧚 Nature Spirits by Sulamith Wülfing

🩸 Fangs Vol. 1 by Billy Balibally

🌟 The Faeries of Spring Cottage by Wendy Froud & Terri Windling

🍃 John Ronald’s Dragons: The Story of J.R.R. Tolkien by Caroline McAlister & Eliza Wheeler

💭 Dream Work by Mary Oliver

🏴‍☠️ One Piece Vol. 9: Tears by Eiichiro Oda

🌟 Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland

🗡️ Beowulf: The Warrior retold by Ian Serraillier

🌟 The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell & Ned Asta

🧙 Troubles with Dragons by Scott E. Sutton

What did you read in March? 🍃

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Read in March 2025

this was a good month but I got really sick at the end of it and my memory's gone kind of screwy so I can't exactly comment on favourites or anything this month. I read some books. good for me.

Nonfiction:

The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt - 5/5

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - 2/5

Familiar authors:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - reread

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - reread

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - reread

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins - 4/5

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar - 3/5

Feed by Mira Grant - 3/5

Mossflower by Brian Jacques - 3/5

Wide Awake Now by David Levithan - 4/5

The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones - 4/5

Rolling in the Deep by Seanan McGuire - 5/5

Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire - 3/5

Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire - 3/5

Sparrowhill Road by Seanan McGuire - 2/5

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth - 3/5

Other reads:

Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram - 5/5

They Went Left by Monica Hesse - 4/5

This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska - 4/5

The Night Guest by Hildur Knuttsdottir - 3/5

Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier - 4/5

Cybele’s Secret by Juliet Marillier - 3/5

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion - 4/5

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows - 4/5

All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows - 4/5

Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill - 5/5

North is the Night by Emily Rath - 3/5

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo - 2/5

[jasper-book-stash]

March 2025 Reading Wrap-Up

Two books in March. I struggled a lot this month, both physically and mentally. And they both sucked.

1/10 - Why Did They Publish This?

None applicable.

2/10 - Trash

The Witch’s Guide To Animal Familiars: Spells, Rituals & Recipes For Making Magic With Animal Allies | Madame Pamita

So there are a lot of complaints I have about this book. Ultimately, it comes down to this: I wish the author cared for people of color as least as much as she cares about animals in this text, and I wished she had as much respect for other cultures as she had for nature.

3/10 - Meh

The Magic Of Shapeshifting | Rosalyn Greene

This is technically just as bad as the previous one, but I read this one first and it has the excuse of being published in 2000. I'm going to use it for reference like the other one, but damn, I can't recommend this.

4 to 6/10 - Mid-Tier

None applicable.

7 to 8/10 - Good With Caveats

None applicable.

9/10 - Very Very Good

None applicable.

10/10 - Unironically Recommend To Everyone

None applicable.

[readingrobin]

Hear ye Hear ye, reading wrap up time my dudes.

[bookocreativity]

March wrap-up

[a-bi-between-pages]

My March 2025 wrap-up!

[paperbaacks]

monthly wrap-up ➺ march 🎧⋆˙⟡♡☕️✧˚ ༘ ⋆

⤷ reviews

☀︎ — new reads:

all fours - miranda july my funny demon valentine - aurora ascher

☾ — re-reads:

none

⟡ — dnf:

none

⤷ storygraph

jan ✶ feb ✶ mar ✶ apr ✶ may ✶ jun ✶ jul ✶ aug ✶ sep ✶ oct ✶ nov ✶ dec

[rosegardendeprofundis]

March 2025 Reading Wrap-Up

📖Reading Challenge: 32/100📖

Books Read This Month:

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

MaXXXine by Tim Waggoner

Leading by Example by Kelsey Quinn

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Child Star: An Autobiography by Shirley Temple Black

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Poker by Tomaž Šalamun

Favorite(s): The Lion Women of Tehran and Sunrise on the Reaping

Least Favorite: Leading by Example

Previous Reading Wrap-Ups: January 2025, February 2025

[slaughter-books]

Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In March

My incredible March, 2025 reading wrap-up! 💛

[bookaddict24-7]

Books Read in March, 2025!

I've been really bad with keeping track of my reviews this month (and the end of February), so I thought I'd just share the books I read this month--since it's the end of March!

What did you read in March?

Happy reading!

[sasha4books]

Just found out that StoryGraph does these nice little monthly wrap-up

[starsandsteelandbrokenglass]

March 2025: Reading Report

I've got a busy spring both ahead and behind. All good stuff, lots of social events which have been and will be a ton of fun, but it is leaving me feeling a little frantic on the work end of things, scrambling to keep up. Hopefully I can keep up with everything. (Never mind that I'm writing this post to put off work I need to do...) In the meantime, March reads:

A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt edited by Katelijn Vandorpe* Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta #1) by Gourav Mohanty- 3.5/5 stars I picked this up on a whim and did not realize that it's inspired by the Mahabharata and Game of Thrones. Having read neither of those texts, I thought it was interesting, I do think that's more or less exactly what it is, so you may find it less original than I if you know the source material. Ghost Stories by M.R. James I didn't rate this, as I sometimes don't with short story collections, but I'm really glad I read some more James! (I think before I'd only read "O Whistle". Happy to be at least a little better versed in his work. The Decagon House Murders (The Bizarre House Mysteries #1) by Yukito Ayatsuji- 3.5/5 stars This was fun! And it was not a straight-up Christie retelling like I feared, though the homage is clear and explicit. The explanation at the end was a bit neat, but I had a good time. The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera- 4/5 stars Powerful story about a piece of history that I previously knew nothing about. I liked the narrative voices a lot, though the in-text interruptions and digressions were sometimes a little much. Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau- 1.75/5 stars I liked the setting a lot but the main character kind of sucked, imo. Plus, the mystery didn't really hold any tension for me. (Oh, and the cousin thing...highly unnecessary.) The Devourers by Indra Das- 3.25/5 stars There were things about this I really liked and other things that I was over pretty quickly. Some of the messaging felt unnecessarily repetitive, though the framing story in particular was neat.

*read for academic purposes and therefore not rated Currently Reading: Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman (I made real progress! 72% finished!) and The Bone Ships (The Tide Child #1) by RJ Barker

[bloodstaineddarling]

march 2025 book wrap up

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

The Ballad of the Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins

As you can see, there was only one thing on my mind in March. I already said my peace in other posts, so I'm just gonna leave this here.

I LOVE HUNGER GAMES AND PEENISS!!!!

[bookishlyread]

March 2025 Wrap Up:

-Read: 2 books (1st picture)

-Hauled: 9 books (2nd picture)