Monthly Wrap-up: March 2021

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Here’s my very first monthly wrap-up!

My parents, and my friends, and my partner have been telling me for years that I should start blogging about all the books I read. In classic Adriana fashion, I ignored them all, until I realized that they were maybe kind of right.

Because I really love writing this blog. I love sharing what I’ve read and loved, (or didn’t love). But mostly, I’m just happy that I’m writing anything again. For the past two years, I’d been suffering from an all-consuming case of writer’s block. It was so bad, that I thought I would never pick up a pen again.

I’ve never been so delighted to be wrong.

Books I Finished:

1. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (Reread)

2. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (Reread)

3. The Burning God by R.F. Kuang

   Rating: 4 1/2 stars

4. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

   Rating: 5 stars

5. A Million Junes by Emily Henry (library)

   Rating: 4 1/2 stars

6. The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed (library)

   Rating: 3 stars

7. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado (library)

   Rating: 2 1/2 stars

8. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence (library)

   Rating: 5 stars

9. The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon (library)

   Rating: 3 1/2 stars

10. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan (library)

    Rating: 5 stars

11. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo (library)

    Rating: 5 stars

12. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean (library)

    Rating: 4 stars

13. Misery by Stephen King

    Rating: 4 1/2 stars

14. Shipped by Angie Hockman

    Rating: 2 stars

15. Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean

    Rating: 4 stars

16. Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    Rating: 4 stars

17. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean

    Rating: 2 stars

18. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (Reread)

19. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (Reread)

Books I Didn’t Finish:

• The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai (library)

• Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett (library)

• Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love by Anne Fadiman

• The Gilded Ones by Namina Coster (library)

• The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

• It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake by Claire Christian (library)

• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

What was your favorite read for the month?