March was a long and eventful month. I think I had something going on every weekend of the month and that really showed in my reading as I do most of my reading in the 48 hours I’m not at work or being a high functioning adult. I went into more detail on my “Weekly Wrap Up #7-12” post if you want to check it out.
I only finished a grand total of one book this month and that is a poetry collection I’ve been sifting through the past few weeks called “Lullabies” by Lang Leav. I think that this is my first poetry collection that I’ve ever read from cover to cover. I found some of Lang Leav’s writing on Pinterest ages ago and always gravitated towards the themes she explored. “Lullabies” is a collection following a person dealing with a break up. While I can’t relate to anything related to a break up and don’t really like poetry steered around breakups/romance, I really did love most of the poems in this collection. Leav explores the idea of time, existence, and significance in various different contexts in this book that make it compatible and impactful for all kinds of readers. Poetry is subjective for everyone so take all of this with a grain of salt but I personally liked the first half of the collection better than the second. There are so many poems in this collection that I want plastered all over my wall.
There are a couple of books that I’m still in the middle of but just haven’t been in the mood to pick up. None of them are bad and I actually enjoy all of them but my capacity to consume any reading the past month was extremely low lol.
You all, I don’t know why this book is taking me so long to read. It’s weird because the writing is very easy to read but the content is taking me forever to consume. I don’t know how to explain it but it feels like a book you have to read slowly… or it’s just that I’m really not in the mood for it and I’m in denial lol.
In the very last few days of the month, I picked up two books: “The Bone Shard Daughter” and “Wundersmith the Calling of Morrigan Crow”.
This book has such an interesting premise. I’ve read one another book that centered around this concept of bone shards and constructs made of bones and this one seems to be just as interesting. I’m only 125 pages into it so I can’t say much but big things have already started to happen. So far, I think there are four POV’s which is a signature fantasy book move and in true fashion, there is one POV I care for less than the others. Ironically, I picked this book up because I heard so much about the one POV that I don’t care for but again, I’m only 125 pages in so there’s a lot more story to happen and my initial impression of the character can change.
I started this book on the last day of the month but I was feeling real ambitious and thought that I could blow through this one just in time for midnight but sadly, I only got half way through it. I read the first book of this series a couple of years ago (review can be found here). I don’t know why but I liked the first book but didn’t love it. I think all the hype got to me and I went in to the book not entirely in the mood for it. This one though, is so good that I’m fighting the urge to go back and reread the first one. I won’t say much because it’s the second book in the series but there’s just something so cozy yet gripping about this book. I really want it to become the new Harry Potter for the next generation because it’s so good. Where are the movie deals for this? Where are they?
What books did you read in March? Any you want to recommend?