MARCH WRAP UP | i got sick for almost the whole month so i read 46 books (+ my graphicsathon wrap up)

Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! So… let’s talk about March! March started out really strong with me reading 24 things for Graphicsathon (!!!) and then it quickly went downhill lol because I was basically sick for the rest of the month. How did I read so much this month? A horrible combination of not getting out of bed for 2 and a half weeks & only reading audiobooks. So, yeah, this is going to be a longer wrap up than usual and yeah I read an impressive amount, but reading this much is absolutely not normal for me and I’m honestly still shocked that I read so much 🙈.

Quick Stats:

• Pages read: 13,970
• Books read: 46

• Most disappointing book of the month – Living-Room Matsunaga-San Vol 1
• Worst book of the month – Hunting Adeline
• Most surprising book of the month – Kulti
• Best book of the month – All Rhodes Lead Here

MONTH	PAGE COUNT	READ COUNT
January	7,796	28
February	8,737	28
March	13,970	46
t o t a l  (s o f a r)	30,503	102

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🌻 – Buddy read // 🎧 – Audiobook // 📚 – Library book // 🔁 – Re-read
🌈 – LGBTQIA+ rep // 🟣 – disability rep // ✨ – 2023 release // 💕 ↣ the hoemance book club 

*Click on the titles for my Goodreads reviews! You can also find my StoryGraph reviews here!

The first 24 things I read in March I read for round 8 of the Graphicsathon! Join our Discord and our Twitter here for updates on when our next round will be!

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• Sweat and Soap Vol 6 [01/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – I desperately need to find another series like this because this one is 😍👌💕✨🤌
• Sweat and Soap Vol 7 [01/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – so cute!
• Sweat and Soap Vol 8 [02/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Absolutely could’ve done without everyone talking about her boobs and the diet chapter, but otherwise this was a great volume!
• Sweat and Soap Vol 9 [02/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – This volume was so sad but it might be my favourite so far!
• Sweat and Soap Vol 10 [02/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – They’re idiots but they’re my idiots.

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• Sweat and Soap Vol 11 [02/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – This felt a little rushed but I adored that epilogue! 😍
• Super Fun Sexy Times [02/03] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Super cute artwork combined with the best tropes the romance genre has to offer? This is a fanfic reader’s dream and everyone needs to read it asap! (As long as you’re okay with reading a little sexy times… Also, maybe don’t read this on the bus 😳😂)
• Spy x Family Vol 1 [02/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Twilight and his lil family have my whole heart 🥺🥰
• Spy x Family Vol 2 [04/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5- This series is so much fun!! The humour is a 10/10 every time!
• Knight of The Ice Vol 1 [04/03] ⭐⭐.5 – I don’t know why but I genuinely thought this was going to be a new favourite of mine, but I ended up being bored the whole time I was reading 😩🤷‍♀️

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• Living-Room Matsunaga-San Vol 1 [05/03] ⭐⭐ – This would’ve been cute if she was a college student but she isn’t so instead it’s just massively uncomfortable and illegal.
• A Man and His Cat Vol 1 [05/03] ⭐⭐⭐ – I actually think this was too wholesome and cute for my cold dead heart like it crossed the cuteness line by too far and just became weird…
• Batter Royale [05/03] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – You bet your ass I’m going to make every single recipe from this adorable graphic novel! 10/10 I loved this!
• I Hate Fairyland Vol 1 [05/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – Absolute insanity 😍 I love it!
• Spy x Family Vol 3 [05/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – I loved this so much, it was so much fun!!

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• Spy x Family Vol 4 [05/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – *sigh* I love them so much 😩🥺😍
• Spy x Family Vol 5 [06/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – So much fun! This series gets better with every volume!
• Spy x Family Vol 6 [06/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – a bit of a filler volume but fun nonetheless!
• Spy x Family Vol 7 [06/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – another filler vol but I can tell the next one is going to be great!
• Spy x Family Vol 8 [06 – 07/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – so much fun!

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• Spy x Family Vol 9 [07/03] ✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – ugh a Nightfall chapter who asked for that???
• Spy x Family Vol 10 [07/03] ✨ – ⭐⭐⭐.75 – Twilight backstory! 😱 They are putting this man through the ringer…
• Lore Olympus Vol 1 [07/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Someone give that girl a hug or so help me god 👊✨
• Lore Olympus Vol 2 [07/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – I forgot how slow of a slow burn Hades and Persephone are 😩 I still love them tho so it’s okay 🥰
• Lore Olympus Vol 3 [08/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Once again, I am completely floored by this series!

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• I Don’t Need Therapy [09/03] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – Toni, I love you but I don’t understand why this book exists.
• Wolfsong [10/03] 🎧🌈🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – If you were a 2012 tumblr ✨girlie✨ &/or had an obsession with softcore a/b/o fics at any point, I’m not joking, read this book immediately.
• Kulti [12/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – I don’t know why 2022 me said this wasn’t the romance for me because it very very much is. I already want to reread this again.
• From Lukov with Love [19/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – unfortunately, there’s a lot of fatphobia in this one but everything else about this book is perfect.
• Juniper Hill [20/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – I love this book more and more every time I reread it.

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• Marriage For One [20-21/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – If you go through my goodreads account you will always be able to see when I’ve been sick throughout the year bc I will have read Juniper Hill & Marriage For One one after the other. These two truly always make me feel better!
• All Rhodes Lead Here [date/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Mariana Zapata is practically spoon-feeding me serotonin at this point, and I love her for that.
• Do I Know You? [22/03] ✨🎧💕 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – I absolutely loved every second of this book and I truly think Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka are going to give Christina Lauren a run for their money and might end up as my favourite romance author duo!
• The Wall of Winnipeg and Me [23-24/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – Not me reading this gem for the 8th time in 3 years 🙈
• Hands Down [date/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐.75 – I loved this one, it was so refreshing to not read about a grumpy love interest for once!

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• Praise [25/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Well, that was fun! I fully intended to read book 2 immediately until I saw it was a step-sibling romance 😓
• A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor [26/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – It took me a minute to decide whether or not I liked the characters & the complete lack of a plot, but I enjoyed this one overall.
• Mated to The Monster [26/03] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – f…f…fade to black? In this economy?
• Baby & the Late Night Howlers [26/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐.25 – Yes, I can see that me and the omegaverse are going to get along very well indeed.
• Stroke of Midnight [27/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – I don’t usually like duets, let alone trilogies but I get the feeling I’ll be binging this one immediately.

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• Prince Charming [27/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐.75 – not as good as book 1 but I’ll definitely be reading book 3 asap
• The Glass Slipper [28/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – The true love story: Win and Shrimp. 🦜😍💕
• Heart of The Raven Prince [28 – 29/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – I just know I’m going to love this entire series.
• Muscles & Monsters [29/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – This was absolutely adorable and I will be devouring this series as soon as the other audiobooks come out!
• That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf [29/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – I don’t think I’ll go back and read book 1 but this one was a lot of fun!

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• Haunting Adeline [29-30/03] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Everyone loves Santa Clause but as soon as someone else breaks into your house and leaves roses no less… it’s creepy??? 🌹🌹🌹
• Hunting Adeline 🎧 – DNF – Well, I certainly wasn’t prepared for the first 22 chapters of this book bc fun fact the audiobook skipped over the trigger warnings… It’s graphic and fucking traumatic. I didn’t think I could feel any sicker while on my period but this book just proved me very very wrong. I ended up skipping from ch 14 to 23 because this book was literally giving me nightmares and I don’t need that in my life.

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🔁 – Rewatch // 🌈 – queer // ✨ – 2023 release

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• Superman [14/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Every couple of months I become re-obsessed with all things Superman so please excuse me while I binge-watch anything Superman related on Youtube in my lunch break 😅 Of course this movie was fantastic, I loved every second!
• Jurassic World Dominion (extended ed.) [15/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – This is the first time I’ve watched this since I saw it in the cinema and this time I watched the extended edition and let me just say that I LOVED all of the extra little scenes! This is by no means a great movie but the sheer joy of seeing the original cast again makes it great to me.
• The Mummy [16/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – Goofy movies like this feed my soul.
• Can You Keep a Secret? [18/03] ⭐⭐⭐ – I genuinely think that if you enjoyed the hating game movie you’ll enjoy this one too.
• National Treasure [19/03] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Disney is a bunch of cowards for not making this a trilogy

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What did you read this month?
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