All posts tagged March 2019

Favorite Book of March (Fangirling on Friday)

By Brookelorren on 4 Comments
Fangirling on Friday

It’s Friday again, which means it’s time to fangirl! Today’s Fangirling on Friday topic is “Favorite of March”. I read so many great books this last month, so even though I have one book in mind, I also have several honorable mentions.

Sky Without Stars cover

So I think I’m going to give the favorite book of the month award to Sky without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell! This was a great book. I loved the main characters, Chatine and Marcellus, and I hope that when the next book comes out I get to see more of them together. Of course, Alouette is an interesting character as well, but I’m hoping for Chatine and Marcellus to get together.

The book is described as Les Miserables meets The Lunar Chronicles. I need to read both of those books, but I haven’t yet. Why? Well, maybe because of the other 300 books on my TBR…

I read so many good books last month, but I should give an honorable mention to The Grisha Verse books by Leigh Bardugo. So I started reading Shadow and Bone in February, but in March I read Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. I completely ship Malina! I also listened to Six of Crows on audiobook (same universe, different story). They were all good.

In March I found out that Leigh Bardugo is releasing a book on October 1st (what’s up with that date… it’s also the date Rebel and The End and Other Beginnings comes out) called Ninth House. I want to pre-order that book, but I looked at my budget for this month, and since I’m meeting Sandhya Menon next week, I’m getting When Dimple Met Rishi instead. I’m sure I can pre-order her book next month, but October is still six months away, so there’s plenty of time to come up with $22 between now and then.

So that’s my favorite from March. What were your favorites?

March Monthly Wrap-Up

By Brookelorren on 3 Comments

Can you believe March is already over? It was an amazing month for me, both reading and otherwise. Hope April is just as good!

Books Read:

I read thirteen books for the first time and reread three (okay, so Life after Legend is 22 pages and Life after Legend II is 5 pages so they really shouldn’t count, but Goodreads counts them). So sixteen books total. Many of the were really good. Book in blue are rereads.

  • Sky Without Stars – Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell
  • The Evertree – Marie Lu
  • The Land of Yesterday – K.A. Reynolds
  • Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
  • Prodigy (Graphic Novel) – Marie Lu
  • Blood Heir – Amélie Wen Zhao
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
  • Champion (Graphic Novel) – Marie Lu
  • Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
  • The Devouring Gray – Christine Lynn Herman
  • Sky in the Deep – Adrienne Young
  • Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo (audiobook)
  • King of Fools – Amanda Foody
  • Legend – Marie Lu (audiobook)
  • Life After Legend – Marie Lu
  • Life After Legend II – Marie Lu

Blog Stats:

  • I’m at 1984 Twitter followers. I actually have more Twitter followers than the year I was born now.
  • Site visits seem to be steady. I should be able to visit more bloggers in a couple of months (you’ll see why at under the life section).

Writing:

I finished the second draft of THE BRIGHTNESS OF SHADOW. I also learned that the conventional way to write about an unpublished work was to write it in capitals, as opposed to published works, which are in italics. Learn something new every day.

Anyway, I was a little discouraged with the book at this point, and ended up publishing the first four chapters of my latest Legend fanfic, Hero. I don’t know what the convention is for partially published works. Anyway, a couple of days ago I was thinking about my characters and what they wanted, and I came up with an idea that’s going to change quite a bit of the book, but make it better at the same time. I wrote a partial scene to this change and… it’s pretty good.

Life:

Okay… big, glorious change on the life front: my husband got a new job! It’s going to pay about twice as much as his current job. So as of this morning, I only have forty more workdays left at my current job (I plan for my last day to be May 31st). After that, we’ll be able to afford for me to stay at home and be a homeschool teacher and full-time writer/blogger.

I’m staying a couple extra weeks at this job in order to buy a new laptop. The one I have now was inexpensive to begin with, and I never really intended to do so much writing on it. The new laptop I’ll be in the market for will be able to have all my writing applications open at once and shouldn’t slow down while I switch between them.

My daughter seems to be doing… okay. She hasn’t needed to go to the hospital and that’s good. Things are still hard for her, but sometimes life is like that.

So that was it. Hopefully April will be a great month!