March 2020 Wrap-Up
I read ten books in March! I took part in two book club reads and finished a series.
I wasn’t sick this month, but I still spent a lot of time in bed and so some days I was only getting in my 30 minutes of reading.
Six of the ten books were from the library, one was an ebook form Kindle Unlimited, and I own the other three.
March Reads:
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand [★★★★☆]
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) (bookclub pick) by Sarah J. Maas [ ★★★★★]
Bird Box (Bird Box #1) by Josh Malerman [★★★★★]
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller [★★★★★]
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton [★★★★★]
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens [★★★★★]
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (bookclub pick) by Erik Larson [★★★★★]
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio [★★★★★]
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck [★★★★★]
The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus #5) by Rick Riordan [★★★★★]
Books in bold are the ones I own(ed)
Where the Crawdads Sing was my favorite book of the month.
Dead Wake went towards my 2020 Goal for the TBRBuster challenge made by @bookbandit of reading one nonfiction book a month I’ve owned a year or longer and it was a book club read.
The Moon is Down went towards one of my overall 2020 goals of reading at least 10 books that I’ve owned for a year or longer.
Overall Goals Check-in:
Read 30 minutes a day [91/366]
Read 100 books [34/100]
Read 10 books that have been on my shelves for more than a year [4/10]
Become more active in the booklr community (I feel I am doing this)
Read a book that is 1,000 pages or more
Complete one series I’ve already started (A Series of Unfortunate Events, The African Trilogy, The Heroes of Olympus)
Write in my journal every day, even if it is only a sentence [91/366]
TBRBuster Check-in:
all books have to be owned for a year or longer at the time of reading
Read one nonfiction book a month, these do not count towards yearly goal [3/12]
Read one book I own by J. R. R. Tolkien
Read one book that is 800+ pages
Read one book that is more than a 100 years old
Read one book that was written in or before the 16th century
I still have 24 library books to read. My library has closed because of COVID-19 precautions and will not open in the foreseeable future. They have extended the due dates for the books I have out until May. The good news is I can’t add any more library books over the next month, so all I can do is winnow them down.
I am sure I will read library books in April, I would like to make it even stevens this time around and maybe read one book I own for every library book. We will see how that goes.
*My check-in info is as of 3/31 so it only contains things for March
