What I read in March!
Lots of variety, one kids book read to my daughter (I read more than 1 a month to her but this was the only new one!), some fantasy, a brilliant, brilliant sci-fi book where the sci-fi part isn’t important (everyone needs to read everything by RC Sherriff!), a book about walking, a great Jhumpa Lahiri short story collection and a comic you can read free online at Substack.
Also read Carisa Lloyd’s book about grief, coincidentally around the 7th anniversary of my dad dying- I found it enormously helpful, her podcast is great too, as a rec for anyone else in the club.
What did you read last month?
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~ my writing in Italian is, just like a bridge, something constructed, fragile. It might collapse at any moment, leaving me in danger. English flows under my feet. I am aware of it: an undeniable presence, even if I try to avoid it. Like the water in Venice, it remains the stronger, more natural element, the element that forever threatens to swallow me. Paradoxically, I could survive without any trouble in English; I wouldn’t drown. And yet, because I don’t want any contact with the water, I build bridges.
- In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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I love libraries man. I moved to a different country where the public library system is really good (I didn’t really know if we had one in my home country but I didn’t live in a place where we did). I had “Kafka on the Shore” on my TBR for so long bc, obviously, and it’s finally falling in my clutches!! I had a online version of it but you can’t fight the feeling of holding a book in your hands. And I’ll get it tomorrow, it feels like a reward since I have a chemistry test tomorrow and my back is breaking from studying for it :(
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september tbr:
the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
crime and punishment - fyodor dostoyevsky
wuthering heights - emily brontë
harry potter and the sorceror's stone (reread) - j.k. rowling
the quick - lauren owen
the murder of roger ackroyd - agatha christie
crave - tracy wolff
the graveyard book - neal shusterman
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As I mentioned in this post, I'm changing up how I do my TBR this year! I'm doing four bingo cards with 25 books each, with the plan to read them over three months. I'm still working on recovering from a reading slump, so I don't want to overwhelm myself right off the bat.
I'm super excited to try this method, and I had a lot of fun putting together my TBR for this first quarter!
I also have a few library loans I want to finish this month:
Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast (for a project)
How to Succeed at Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy
The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson
Here's a full list of the books on my TBR and the prompts they fill for my 2023 Bingo Challenge!
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones (Shortest book you own)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Disability Rep)
Skyhunter by Marie Lu (On your TBR for over a year)
Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar (Trans author)
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed edited by Saraciea J. Fennell (Latinx author)
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds (Banned book)
The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae
Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé
Jackpot by Nic Stone
All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia
The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin
Rouge Princess by B.R. Meyers
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
The Martian by Andy Weir
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
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It felt a little like fate when I picked Six Angry Girls for my TBR this month. Because I am angry. I am angry and terrified because I live in a country with government officials who have decided that because I was born in a certain body, I don't deserve to have rights to that body. In a country with government officials who claim to be "pro-life"— but only if you are a white Christian able-bodied cishet man. I am angry. I've been angry. I don't have a very big following, but I still want to do what I can with what I have. I want to start adding fundraisers to my posts. I've also added the link for a browser extension I use, Tab For a Cause, which donates money for each browser tab you open. This link is specifically for Reproductive health, but you can set it to donate to other charities too. I hope everyone is doing as well as you can in these times.. Be safe and take care of yourselves. 💜💜 Crystals: ★Moonstone: awareness, cycles & change, overcoming obstacles, connection to feminine energy ★Black Moonstone: Protection, new beginnings, resolution, transformation, connection to dark feminine energy ★Labradorite: confidence, protection, transformation, inner strength ★Amazonite: Balance, courage, leadership, stability, strength, success 💜💜 This is also my TBR post for July. It's a little longer than normal because I'll be taking a trip with my family later this month and I'm counting on having extra reading time. 💜💜 #booksandcrystals #prochoice #photooftheday #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #booktwitter #bookish #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookblog #Bookblogger #BookBlogs #booktok #tbr #tbrpile #tbrpost #tbrlist #tbrstack #tbr2022 #tbrbooks #tbrbooktag https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf4tJOAv0AN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Continuing my TBR shelf reading this year (2 down, 50 to go!) which should I read next of these 4 chosen at random?
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