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March Wrap Up & April TBR

In March, I participated in the Bookish Swifties Club Readathon and was on Team White Rabbit, which meant I could only read fantasy, nonfiction, historical fiction, or general fiction books unless I had a wild card, which meant that my reads this month look dramatically different than they normally do. I wound up having a really lovely time, although I am relieved to be back to normal and able to read whatever I want. (I say this despite the fact that so far, all I’ve read in April is Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson…) Anyway, this was a successful month of reads and I’m excited to share those with you! After March’s recap, you’ll see my April TBR so let’s get started!

March Wrap Up || firewhiskey reader

A Visual Representation of My March Reads by Rating

5 Stars

Covers of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoula Katouh, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom, Mooncakes by Wendy Xu, Sheets by Brenna Thummler, The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu, Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston, This Could be Us by Kennedy Ryan, Delicates by Brenna Thummler, and Aquicorn Cove by Kay O’Neil

4.5 Stars

Covers of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas, and Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender

4 Stars

Covers of A Rogue by Night by Kelly Bowen, Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey, Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh, Play Like a Girl by Misty & David Wilson, M is for Marquess by Grace Callaway, and Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

3.5 Stars

Covers of The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton, The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama, An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson, and Lightfall: The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert

3 Stars

Covers of Chronic by Rebecca Dimyan, Strong Female Character by Fern Brady, Our Last Days in Barcelona by Chanel Cleeton, Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

2 Stars

Cover of A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

Statistics

  • Total Books Read: 30
  • Pages Read: 10,719
  • Books Hauled: 29 (oops)
  • Audio Reads: 11
  • Ebook Reads: 8
  • Physical Reads: 1
  • Mixed Format Reads: 10
  • Off Shelf: 13

March Posts on Firewhiskey Reader

April TBR

April TBR

In April, I’m participating in the Spring Equinox session of the Orillium Magical Readathon created by Book Roast, which is my favorite readathon to participate in. I’m feeling indecisive about which career path I want to study this semester so I’m trying for both Star Whisperer and Thread Mage, which means I need to read ten things. So this first section are eight of those things. The other two are that I need to read Legend of Dia, which is a short world-building article that Book Roast created and then any book I want where I fill out a Prediction Bingo before I start the book, which will be fun!

Covers of The Pregame Ritual by Alexandra Warren (for the prompt: game or play in the title), The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (for the prompt: Astrological recommendation – Libra), Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (for the prompt: write down three books, randomly select one), Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (for the prompt: circle on the cover), To Woo and To Wed by Martha Waters (for the prompt: randomly pick a number for the amount of letters in the title – 13), The Key to My Heart by Lia Louis (for the prompt: key or lock on the title/cover), Wake Me Most Wickedly by Felicia Grossman (for the prompt: write down three books, randomly select one), and The Best of All by Karla Sorensen (for the prompt: pick a book that you think could end a reading slump)

And then we also have the ARCs I have for April…

An American football with a play drawn up on a chalkboard in the background.
Covers of What is Love? by Jen Comfort, Old Flames and New Fortunes by Sarah Hogle, Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun, Wake Me Most Wickedly by Felicia Grossman, Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings, It Started with a Secret by Tif Marcelo, The Lady He Lost by Faye Delacour, and Love in the Red Zone by Love Belvin

And then of course, the books I cannot wait to read that come out in April and I wasn’t fortunate enough to receive ARCs for:

Covers of Only and Forever by Chloe Liese, Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez, Wild Love by Elsie Silver, Funny Story by Emily Henry, Archangel’s Lineage by Nalini Singh, and King of Sloth by Ana Huang

In other words… I have a lot of reading to do. I guess I better get to it.

Closing Thoughts

March was a really good reading month, both numerically and quality wise. I’m really hoping that April at least maintains the quality level because the beginning of the year was a bit of a mixed bag for me. What books are you looking forward to reading in April? What was your favorite read of March?

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2 responses to “March Wrap Up & April TBR”

  1. This made me laugh because my partner finished Mistborn a couple of months ago, took a short break, and is now deep into the Stormlight Archive. We picked up book 3 from the library this morning!

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