It’s time for a look at my March reading life!
It’s time for another wrap-up/haul post — and some fun stats!
What I read:
(each title link will direct you to my review for more thoughts!)
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✨ review copy → 💞 buddy/group read → 🔁 re-read → 🎧 audiobook → 🍰 graphic novel/manga
🤷♀️ TBR jar → 🗓️ 2023 TBR → 🌻 seasonal TBR → 😻 Devour Your TBR
5 stars
- Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, & Heir of Fire // Sarah J. Maas 💞🔁🎧
- What Lies in the Woods // Kate Alice Marshall ✨💞🎧
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires // Grady Hendrix ✨💞🎧
- Annihilation // Jeff VanderMeer 🌻
- Batcat // Meggie Ramm ✨🍰
- Stop Buying Bins: & other blunt but practical advice from a home organizer // Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson
4 & 4.5 stars
- The Moth Keeper // Kay O’Neill ✨🍰
3 & 3.5 stars
- Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed On Earth)? // Zach Zimmerman ✨
2 & 2.5 stars
- Nada!
1 & 1.5 stars
- Zilch!
DNF
- Messy Minimalism // Rachelle Crawford
And now, for some of my favorite recent hauls:
purchases:
- The Trees Grew Because I Bled There // Eric LaRocca (signed pre-order)
- The Foxglove King // Hannah F. Whitten (B&N exclusive pre-order)
- SPYxFAMILY, Vol. 9 // Tatsuya Endo (B&N sale)
- Goth // Otsuichi (B&N sale)
- The Sacrifice // Rin Chupeco (B&N sale)
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (BookDepository – UK hardback)
- Flowerheart // Heather Fawcett
- Authority & Acceptance // Jeff VanderMeer (Pango)
- The Hollow Places // T. Kingfisher (BookDepository – UK paperback)
- The Fine Print // Lauren Asher (B&N sale)
- The Whispering Dead // Darcy Coates (Sourcebooks sale)
- A House with Good Bones // T. Kingfisher (B&N pre-order)
review copies:
- Enter the Body // Joy McCullough (ALC)
- Witch King // Martha Wells (eARC)
- Night’s Edge // Liz Kerin (ARC)
- Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories // Agustina Bazterrica (eARC)
- Black Sheep // Rachel Harrison (eARC)
- Lone Women // Victor LaValle (ALC)
- Nestlings // Nat Cassidy (eARC)
- Vial Thoughts // Van Essler (paperback for review)
- A Season of Monstrous Conceptions // Lina Rather (eARC)
- This Delicious Death // Kayla Cottingham (eARC)
- Hide: The Graphic Novel // Kiersten White (eARC)
How was your month? What was your favorite book you read or hauled, or what was something nice that happened in your life?
— destiny ♥
Tammy Brown
April 5, 2023I love Guide to slaying vampires-absolutely super book!
Jordyn @ Birdie's Book Nook
April 5, 2023Okay, so I literally cannot wait for you to read The Foxglove King, bc I’m like 99% sure that you’ll adore it. AND I also got an ARC for Witch King!!!!
Caro @ bookcheshirecat
April 8, 2023Ohh you had such a good average rating ? The Moth Keeper sound s really cute, I had no idea Kay O’Neill had a new graphic novel! Very exciting to see that you got a review copy of Witch King, I’m so hyped for this release ?
frayedbooks
April 8, 2023I’m so happy to see you enjoyed The Moth Keeper! That’s on my TBR and I hope to read it very soon~
My favorite book of March was an arc of Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, which released April 4th!