March Reading Recap
March Reading Recap
| all the books I read in March |
Hello, Sweet Friend!
Happy April! How was your March? What was your favorite March read?
Today is a reading recap where I share all the books I read in March, their star rating, clean rating, and the book review I did for them! I read 10 books this month and found some new favorite books! I’ve started really wanting to write more book reviews and so I tried to write a book review for every book I read this month. You can find all these reviews on my Goodreads (because I don’t always want to make graphics to put on the blog because y’all know me. If I do a book review here then I have to make a Pinterest board and go overboard XD). And…I did do a small Pinterest board for each! XD
Now onto the recap! But before we do, a quick letter about today and this weekend.
A Letter About Good Friday
𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔, 𝚊𝚝 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚠𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚋, 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚋, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢. 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚡𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜, 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚊𝚣𝚣𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, “𝚆𝚑𝚢 𝚍𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍? 𝙷𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚗. 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚍 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗.” 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚋, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝.
—𝙻𝚞𝚔𝚎 𝟸𝟺:𝟷-𝟾
BIBLE BOOKS FINISHED
John
I love the gospels! They all are so encouraging and I love reading what Jesus said! The above quote has always been my FAVORITE quote! I always wished (and still wish) to read these books!
Ruth
I LOVE the story of Ruth! It has always been one of my FAVORITE books since I was a little girl! Now, almost an adult, I am working on writing a retelling based on this story. It’s been such an amazing experience and God has brought SO many Bible stories and scripture into this story! I could not write this without Him and His constant guidance! The outline is almost done and then I will move on to putting the outline into a chapter outline (divide the outline into how many chapters I want to write) and then WRITE this story! I’m SO excited to start writing this story and then to continue this story in the rest of the series (all based on Bible stories)!
FAVORITE FEBRUARY READ (for the first time)
This month I have two books tied as my FAVORITE read of February!
Rating: ★★★★★
Cleanness: ★★★
I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!!! KEY is by far my favorite book of Madisyn’s that I’ve read! I loved this fairytale retelling! It kept just enough of the original Rapunzel story to be familiar but then completely its own story that I had no idea what the ending was going to be. I LOVE this book and highly recommend this whole series!
Don’t forget to check out the whole in depth review! I would keep fangirling about this book here but that would make this post really long, hehe!
Rating: ★★★★★
Cleanness: ★★★
This book was a monster to get through with so many EMOTIONS. The review I did was basically an in depth essay on my thoughts and struggles with the book (struggles namely with Mr. Rochester). I don’t think I’ve ever been as conflicted with a character as I have with Mr. Rochester.
Just because this was a journey and a feat of reading all in itself (for me) it has to be one of my top reads of March and the year (though KEY was much more enjoyable. I still love both of them and they both made me cry).
FIVE STAR READS
Rating: ★★★★★
Cleanness: ★★★★.5
I LOVE this Cinderella retelling so much! It is so sweet and the characters are all so amazing and I just love them! This is one of my favorite of Melanie’s books and one of my FAVORITE Cinderella retellings!
Rating: ★★★★★
Cleanness: ★★★.5
This is my favorite book in this series! It has the best of the (main three) relationships in this series. I love the banter and the themes in this story! You can definitely read this series out of order as they all are connected by characters but also can be a standalone if you’d like. I feel like I can see Jody become better author with this book (the third in the series) is far better than the first two but those are still enjoyable!
Rating: ★★★★★
Cleanness: ★★★
This is the second book in the An Uncertain Choice series. This was really fun and one of my favorite genderswapped Robin Hood retellings (the girl is our Robin Hood). I have read better retellings but this is really fun and has a sweet romance!
Rating: ★★★★★
Cleanness: ★★★★
I love this book! My grandpa got this for me years ago and it became one of my favorite stories as a kid! I love Meg’s character and how love saved the day! Calvin is also such a fun character! By far, the book is better than the movie but I did really like the movie (and that the actor who played Calvin also played Peter Pan in the movie Pan (which I love))!
Rating: ★★★★★
Cleanness: ★★★
This book was amazing!!! This was my first Madisyn Carlin read of March and is so good! I loved this Cinderella retelling and the characters and banter were *chefs kiss*! I highly recommend this entire series because it is amazing and has such beautiful depictions of faith!
Also, side note, this was an incredible reading month with all but one book being 5 star reads! That’s amazing! <3
THREE STAR READ
Rating: ★★★
Cleanness: ★★.5
This was a fun action packed superhero read! It’s an indie book and written by a Christian author (not depicted in book)! I loved the side characters and it was a fun read. There were some things that just…didn’t click for me and some book pet peeves that lowered the rating based on personal preference (like an unnecessary character death, telling and not showing, etc). Weirdly with how the book went I ended up rooting for the villain of the story instead of the heroes (odd, I know but he had a good backstory XD).
Other Books I’m Reading But Haven’t Yet Finished
Down The Rabbit Hole
This is my newest psychology book. It is both enjoyable but then it also feels…unprofessional with how the author describes his patients so…I don’t yet know what I think of this book.
Oliver Twist
This is surprisingly depressing and a sad book (I say surprising because I wasn’t expecting chapter one to open with such sad moments and it keeps getting more depressing). My heart breaks for poor little Oliver. I’m hoping it gets happier and that Oliver has a happy ending!
I read a retelling of this years ago and loved it so I’m excited to finally read the original but then I want a happy book! XD
I’m also annotating my physical book (which is fun) and am listening to the audiobook (which is fun because it is British and funny because of the voices for each of the characters). This book is an odd combination of enjoyable and super depressing all at the same time. Did anyone else feel the same while reading this, or is that just me?
Proverbs
I’m almost done with this book in the Bible! I love this book!
The Green Ember by S. D. Smith
Still reading this book for story time! I really like this book and I can’t wait to keep reading it with my siblings!
Pride and Prejudice
I LOVE Pride and Prejudice! This is my third time reading this wonderful book! I love it! I’m also reading this as a part of this month's book club! It’s so fun reading these characters again!
BEHOLD PEACE Update:
The first Bible study in BEHOLD PEACE is on Esther! Esther Chapters NINE & TEN, the second to final post in the Esther Study (Chosen, Favored, & Planned by God), is now published and ready to read!
I’m so excited to be finishing this Bible study with you! I hope you check it out! Make sure to come back to BEHOLD PEACE this Monday because it will be our last discussion in our Esther study!
More posts…
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Discussion Time
Thank you so much for reading this post on my March reads! Thank you so much for reading this! I hope you find some new books in this post!
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XOXO Moriyah 🤎
Great post, Moriyah! There are so many that I NEED to read, so I've got to keep reading, haha! I can't wait to read Key! It's definitely high on my TBR!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY APRIL & GOOD FRIDAY!!
ReplyDeleteMarch was by far my favorite month of 2023!! Though I sadly didn't do much reading (other then the Bible).
Thank youuu for sharing your current reads!! Some of them are definitely on my tbr!!📚📚
I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend!!🙌🏻😭✝️🙌🏻