March 2024 Wrap-Up 🌾

Happy Sunday, bibliophiles, Happy Trans Day of Visibility, and Happy Easter for those celebrating!

Mentally, I’m still at the beginning of the semester, but somehow midterms are over and I’ve just gotten back from break…ignoring that…

Let’s begin, shall we?

GENERAL THOUGHTS:

I’ve continued to be busy in most of my academic aspects of life, but I’ve managed to stay on top of it—midterms season wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, and it certainly helped that we got an accidental four-day weekend thanks to a snowstorm so drastic that my college called two snow days in a row. I’ve lived in Colorado my whole life, and I’ve never experienced a double snow day…good times, gotta say. I didn’t leave my dorm for all of that Thursday and spent my time playing Minecraft and drinking hot chocolate. A win is a win. But now, the weather’s warming up, and I’m looking forward to soaking it all in.

I honestly thought that this month was going to be my worst reading month, but I read a lot more than I expected; spring break definitely gave me a boost, and March has ended up being my best reading month of 2024 so far! Rating-wise, it’s a different story (certainly more stinkers in this batch), but there were plenty of excellent reads before and after my brief reading slump. Blogging has been about the same—again, school has made it so that I’m mostly sticking to my usual book reviews and Sunday Songs, but I’ve had fun writing them all the same.

Other than that, I’ve just been drawing, playing Minecraft (WE’RE FINALLY GETTING THE DOG UPDATE), studying, watching The Bear, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (STAND AND DELIVAH), Abbott Elementary, and Constellation (I haven’t been this stressed out and baffled by a show since Dark, and that’s really saying something), series 17 of Taskmaster, Dune: Part 2 (may thy knife chip and shatter), seeing Chelsea Wolfe live (!!!!! THE QUEEN), and reverting from human to hibernating grizzly bear the minute snow started falling.

READING AND BLOGGING:

I read 19 books this month! I thought it would end up being a lot less than that, but spring break gave me much more time to read. As far as ratings, this has probably been my worst reading month (first DNF and 1-star rating of the year…), but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t read a ton of fantastic books!

1 – 1.75 stars:

• Out of Character – Jenna Miller (⭐️.5)
• The Sevenfold Hunters – Rose Egal (DNF – ⭐️.75)

2 – 2.75 stars:

• Afterlove – Tanya Byrne (⭐️⭐️)
• Pangu’s Shadow – Karen Bao (⭐️⭐️)

3 – 3.75 stars:

• The Boy You Always Wanted – Michelle Quach (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
• A Prayer for Vengeance – Leanne Schwartz (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
• The Monstrous Misses Mai – Van Hoang (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
• Silver Nitrate – Silvia Moreno-Garcia (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
• The Cybernetic Tea Shop – Meredith Katz (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
• The Other Side of Infinity – Joan F. Smith (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
• Womb City – Tlotlo Tsamaase (⭐️⭐️⭐️.75)

4 – 4.75 stars:

• Everfair (Everfair, #1) – Nisi Shawl (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
• Somewhere Apart: Selected Lyrics 1977-1997 – Robyn Hitchcock (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
• Kindling – Traci Chee (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
• Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) – Rebecca Ross (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
• Our Crooked Hearts – Melissa Albert (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
• Drunk on All Your Strange New Words – Eddie Robson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (for school) (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
• The Bad Ones – Melissa Albert (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25)

FAVORITE BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Bad Ones – 4.25 stars

POSTS I’M PROUD OF:

• I had fun reviewing Kindling, Our Crooked Hearts, The Monstrous Misses Mai, and The Cybernetic Tea Shop!
• Music rambling! Here are my Sunday Songs from 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, and 3/31!
• I made a list of feminist book recs for Women’s History Month!

POSTS FROM OTHER WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT I ENJOYED:

• Bookish Brews made a fantastic list of anti-colonial sci-fi & fantasy books!
• Michaela @ Journey into Books had a great take on the February Book Tag!
• As always, my incredibly talented brother keeps coming out with banger after banger. Here’s his latest short story!

SONGS/ALBUMS THAT I’VE BEEN ENJOYING:

Today’s song:

That’s it for this month in blogging! Have a wonderful rest of your day, and take care of yourselves!