March 2019 Wrap Up

March. What a month. I spent the first three weeks dreaming of spring break and complaining about how it wasn’t spring break and then the last week doing school work half the time and then complaining that I wasn’t getting a really getting a break and that I wasn’t reading what I wanted to read. Anyways, lets just jump on into this wrap up.

Non-bookish Things from March: 

School and other IRL things: 

March was a month of ups and majors downs, so I’m just going to take a moment to list some of the ups because focusing on the negatives isn’t fun:

• I had like one full week where I didn’t cry, which probably isn’t a big deal for most people but is a big deal for me.
• I finally went to a doctor to discuss my depression and I’m now working with her to figure things out some.
• I got an A- on an essay from a teacher that notoriously only gives Bs!! I’m still super proud of that tbh.
• I did a bunch of extra credit and took a test grade from a C to a high B.
• I had my spring break and I got to spend some quality time with my mom and grandparents.
• I got to hold my baby cousin!! He’s like four months old and he is actually the cutest, I love him.
• This one is kind of positive but kind of negative, but I actually voiced what I want to do next semester to my mom (an experience that was way more stressful than it needed to be given that she didn’t really care and thinks its a great idea).

Movies and TV: 

I watched a ton of Gilmore Girls and Beat Bobby Flay reruns with my mom, but other than that I don’t actually think I watched anything?

Music: 

My music taste was all over the place this month and I didn’t really listen to solely one album over and over again which is kind of weird. I listened to a lot of Five Seconds of Summer and Portugal the Man though.

Finally, onto the books

Pleasure reads from this month: 

I read 16 books for fun this month. That number completely shocked me because I felt like I wasn’t reading anything this entire month, but I’ll take it I guess.

The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore

• ☆☆☆☆
• Read from 3/2-3/3
• Format: audiobook from library
• This has been my favorite from the series so far! I really enjoyed it.

Emily Windsnap and the Siren’s Secret by Liz Kessler

• ☆☆☆☆
• Read from 2/28-3/4
• Format: ebook from library with aid from the audiobook from Scribd
• I did mini reviews for each book in this series, so I’m just going to link that here instead of repeating myself.

Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun by Liz Kessler

• ☆☆☆☆
• Read from 3/4-3/6
• Format: ebook from library

Emily Windsnap and the Falls of Forgotten Island by Liz Kessler

• ☆☆☆☆☆
• Read from 3/9-3/9
• Format: hardback from the library

Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls by Liz Kessler

• ☆☆☆☆
• Read from 3/6-3/9
• Format: ebook from library

Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince by Liz Kessler

• ☆☆☆
• Read from 3/9-3/10
• Format: eARC from Netgalley

The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore

• ☆☆☆☆
• Read from 3/3-3/12
• Format: audiobook from library
• Number Six had a point of view!! I repeat, Number Six had a point of view!!

The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

• ☆☆
• Read from 3/12-3/14
• Format: audiobook from library
• Okay, just out of curiosity, what was the purpose of this book? Like, nothing happened until the last 10%?

You Asked For Perfect by Laura Silverman

• ☆☆☆☆☆
• Read from 3/17-3/17
• Format: paperback, owned
• Full review here.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

• ☆☆
• Read from 3/16-3/19
• Format: audiobook from library
• My only goodreads update for this book is “Oh my god like 5 guys asked her to the Sadie Hawkins dance (Sadie!! Hawkins!!) and she is really out here with this “I’m ordinary and unnoticeable” stuff?” and I feel like that describes my feelings on this book

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

• ☆☆☆☆☆
• Reread from 3/1-3/27
• Format: paperback, owned
• Full review here.

Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows by J.M. Bergen

• ☆☆☆
• Read from 3/28-3/28
• Format: paperback, owned
• Full review here.

Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince by V.E. Schwab  and Andrea Olimpieri 

• ☆☆☆
• Read from 3/29-3/29
• Format: paperback, borrowed from a friend.
• Okay, so for some reason I didn’t realize this was a prequel and spent a lot of time being confused, but that’s okay I guess.

Elemental by Brigid Kemmerer

• ☆☆☆☆
• Reread from 3/30-3/30
• Format: paperback, owned
• My favorite note from my note sheet for this is “why are my babies being literally attacked.”

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

• ☆☆☆
• Reread from 3/30-3/30
• Format: paperback, owned
• Full review to come! Maybe. Someone hold me to this.

The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore

• ☆☆☆
• Read from 3/19-3/31
• Format: audiobook from Scribd
• Things are finally happening! But like, they weren’t for most of the book. But at this point I’ll take what I can get.

Onto all of my lovely mandatory school reading 

• Antigone by Sophocles
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 
• Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz
• Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• Medea by Euripides
• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
• Helen by Euripides

Okay, that’s finally it. I read 23 “books” this month, while acknowledging that there was a novel and a bunch of plays thrown into that category. Now its time for some fun stats:

• Pages read: 6,108
• Average rating: 3.62
• Format breakdown:
  • 17 physical
  • 7 audio

Well, that’s about it from me for the day! How was your March? Did you read any amazing books that you think I should read to? Do you have any TV or movie recommendations?