March 2023 Wrap Up

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Here is what I read/posted in March.

As always, let me know if you have read any of these books and (if you did) what you thought of them.

Books I Read:

**ARC from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Ballantine Books**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Griffin**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books**

**ARC from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Dell**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Paperbacks**

Books I got from NetGalley:

**Read Now from St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books**

**Read Now from St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Griffin**

**Read Now from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books**

**Invite from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books**

**Wish granted from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Del Rey**

**Invite from Level Best Books, Independent Books Publishers Association, Members Titles**

**Wished granted from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Del Rey**

**Invite from St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books**

**Invite from** **Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Bantam**

**Wish Granted from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Ballantine Books**

**Limited time Read Now from Sourcebook Casablanca**

**Wish granted from Sourcebooks Casablanca**

Books I got from Authors/Indie Publishers:

Giveaway Winners

**Goodreads Giveaway Winner through William Morrow—Hardcover**

Books Reviewed:

The Things We Do To Our Friends—review here

Too Wrong to Be Right—review here

The Shadow of Theron—review here

Mad Honey—review here

A Paroxysm of Fear—review here

The Last Lap—review here

Mr. & Mrs. Witch—review here

Missing Clarissa—review here

What Have We Done—review here

Off the Map—review here

Solomon’s Crown—review here

For Our Soul—review here

AI—review here

Not That Kind of Ever After—review here

The Fake—review here

Peril in Paradise—review here

Yours Truly, The Duke—review here

Hotel of Secrets—review here

Reading Challenges

Buzzword Reading Challenge (words in the title like secret, secretive, secrets)—A Dangerous Secret—Finished 3-6-2023

2023 Sami Parker Reads Title Challenge (A book with one of these words in the title: Ice, Snow, Flurry, or Blizzard)—Ice—Finished 3-6-2023

Cover Scavenger Hunt 2023 (Food)—The Obituary Society—Finished 3-10-2023

The StoryGraph’s Onboarding Reading Challenge (read a book from your StoryGraph recommendations)—Beautiful Demons—Finished 3-10-2023

The StoryGraph Reads the World (Cuba)—Of Women and Salt—Finished 3-12-2023

The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge (a sapphic romance)—She Who Became the Sun—Finished 3-22-2023

Beat the Backlist 2023 (about dragons or robots)—The Glow of the Dragon’s Heart—Finished 3-22-2023

Scavenger Hunt TBR Book Challenge (what is the most common letter in the title of the last book you read for this challenge. Find a book with a title that starts with that letter)—Even the Moon has Scars—Finished 3-23-2023

Scavenger Hunt (the prettiest book in your TBR)—The Watchmaker’s Daughter—Finished 3-23-2023

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2023 (A book about a vacation)—The Swap—Finished 3-24-2023

2023 TBR Toppler (the first book in a series)—The Last Artifact—Finished 3-26-23

2023 Monthly Themes (March of the Memoirs)—In the Dream House—Finished 3-1-23

2023 Reading Challenge (A book in a series you already started)—Catching Fire—Finished 3-27-23

2023 ABC Challenge (C)—Contained—Finished 3-6-2023

Romanceopoly 2023 (Killer crescent: read a mystery or thriller of your choosing)—Malevolent—Finished 3-1-23

2023 TBR Prompts (a book written about women in STEM or a book with a strong female lead)—Vicious Delights—Finished 3-28-2023

Bookish Travels—March 2023 Destinations

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This meme is what it says: Places I travel to in books each month. Books are lovely and take you to places you would never get to. That includes places of fantasy too!!

Bon Voyage!!

Please let me know if you have read these books or traveled to these areas.

United States

**New York (Haverford, Limerick, Johnstown), Connecticut (Ashford, Canterbury, Bayfield)**, **Pennsylvania (Philidelphia)**

**Iowa (Iowa City), Pennsylvania (Philidelphia, Allentown)**, **Georgia (Savannah)**, **Indiana (Bloomington)**, **New York (New York City)**

**Louisiana (New Orleans, Algiers Point, French Quarter, Port Sulphur)**

**Florida (Key West, Orlando)**, **Georgia (Atlanta)**

**California (post-apocalyptic Sacramento)**

**Washington D.C., West Virginia, Pennsylvania (Chestertown, Philadelphia), Florida (Miami)**

**Nebraska (Auburn), Wyoming (Rock Springs)**

**Hawaii (Maui, Maalaea Bay, Lahaina, Wailuku)**

**Oregon (countryside), California (Los Angeles)**

**Massachusetts (Boston)**, **New York (New York City)**

South Africa

France

**Paris, Aquitaine, Rouen**, **Nantes, Brittany, Rennes, Poitiers**

England

Montriga

Scotland

**Scottish Highlands, Arach Caim, Glasgow**

Ireland

**Dublin, Tralee**, **Wicklow Mountains, Donegal, Ballybunion**

Argentina

Cuba

Mexico

The Afterlife

India

Canada

China

**Southern Henan (Huai River Plains, Zhongli, Wuhuang, Anfeng, Anyang, Lu, Jiankang, Bianliang), Hichetu (Shanxi)**

Austria

Erlanis Empire

Spain

**The Cantabrian Mountains**, **Los Picos De Europa**, **Costa Brava**, **Toledo**

Turkey

Italy

Morocco

Holland

Gibraltar

Panem

**District 12, District 11, District 8**, **Capitol, District 13**

Isle of Midnight

Angawunde

March 2023 TBR

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February has flown by for me (I don’t know about you guys).

Indie Authors/Publishers

A Paroxysm of Fear by Chad Miller

NetGalley

**From Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Ballantine Books**

**From St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Griffin**

**From St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books**

**From St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books**

**From Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Dell**

**St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Paperbacks**

Reading Challenges:

**2023 Sami Parker Reads Title Challenge**

**The StoryGraph’s OnBoarding Reading Challenge 2023**

Bookish Travels—January 2023 Destinations

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I saw this meme on It’s All About Books and thought, I like this!! So, I decided to do it once a month also. Many thanks to Yvonne for initially posting this!!

This post is what it says: Places I travel to in books each month. Books are lovely and take you to places you would never get a chance to go. That includes places of fantasy too!!

So….enjoy!! Please let me know if you have read these books or traveled to these areas (other than the fantasy….lol).

Panem

United States

**New York (New York City, upstate New York)**

**Massachusetts (Pittsfield, Boston, Amherst)**

**California (Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Studio City)**

**Washington (North Bend, San Juan Islands, Seattle), Montana**

**Iowa (Ames, Sibley), Minnesota**, **South Carolina (Columbia),**

**Alabama (Summerland, Hell), New York (New York City)**

**Illinois (Chicago), New York (New York City), Montana**

Ljosland

Japan

Guatemala

France

Scotland

England

India

Argentina

Italy

**Ostia, Padua, Port of Civitavecchia, Palmro, Sicily**, **Florence, Rome**, **Milan**, **Pompeii**, **Amalfi**, **Tropea**

Hungary

Slovenia

Germany

Austria

January 2023 Wrap Up

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January was a busy reading month for me. Because of that, I could complete all my reading challenges for the month!! Woot!!

It was also a busy month, personally, for me. The highlights of this month are:

Miss B left her dual high school and college credits program.
Snickers going to the emergency vet with a bloody eye. She came home with a torn tear duct and a torn lower lid.
BK going back to traveling each week
And my not-so-great, horrible week last week.

BK and I have been watching Game of Thrones (we’re on season 7), and we started watching The Last of Us.

I have been experimenting with new cooking recipes. I made a Greek Lemon Chicken Orzo soup with Miss R last week.

As always, let me know if you have read any of these books and (if you did) what you thought of them.

Books I Read: