Sara's February/March 2018 Wrap Up

Hello Friends,

I will probably say this every month, but I am amazed at how quickly the months are flying by! Before we know it, summer will be here. We've been hit with a wicked cold snap here in the Peg, and I am SO over it. I hate the cold. I am ready to stop wearing my winter coat and a scarf, I am ready for short pants and my Birks. Oh well, maybe in another month, I will sitting here telling you how amazing the weather has been (fingers crossed).

I missed February's wrap up as things got away from me at the end of the month.  My sister had a beautiful baby girl named Milah on the 20th of February, and I am OBSESSED with her. She's a lovely little thing. Around the same time I was having a few minor health concerns (nothing crazy and I am fine), so a wrap up kind wasn't a huge priority. 


SO, what happened in February/March: 

Oh, well, for Lent (Which went from Feb 14-Mar 31), I gave up watching TV. I did this last year for Lent, however I allowed myself to watch TV on the weekends, which didn't exactly give me the discipline I was looking for.  This year, I could watch it socially- as in if I was invited by someone to watch. This meant, I didn't watch a huge amount of TV during the week (well any really). It was kind of fun, however, really difficult at times (particularly after a hard day at work). Lent is now over, and I would like to continue restricting my TV watching, I maybe keeping it only to weekends. We'll see.

However, even with all that extra time, I still don't feel like I got a lot of reading done these last two months.  But let's get to it.


The Books:

Total Books
15 
8/Feb & 7/Mar

Physical

8

4/Feb & 4/Mar

Audio

7

4/Feb & 3/Mar

Physical Books

Feb:

Here We Are Now by Jasmine Warga (3 1/2 Stars)

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (4 Stars)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (5 Stars)

Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick Illustrated by Sophie Blackall (5 Stars) 

Mar:

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel (1 1/2 Stars)

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (1 Star)

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (4 Stars)

Dearest Ivie by JR Ward (4 Stars) 

Favourite

How did I not read this book before now? Completely worth the hype- 100% worth the hype. 

 

Audio Books

Feb: 

Falling into Bed with a Duke by Lorraine Heath (3 1/2 Stars)

Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan (4 Stars)

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (4 1/2 Stars)

The Lucky Ones by Tiffany Reisz

Mar: 

Death and the Girl Next Door by Darynda Jones (4 Stars)

Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Reread)

I've Got This Round by Mamrie Hart (4 Stars)

**So my audio book count for this month is a lie- I really should add on four more books. I listen to books 4-8 of the Charley Davidson series by Darynda Jones (one of which I counted above). This was completely by accident. I wanted to listen to Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet because it's my favourite in the series and I wanted to relive it, and I kind of fell down a hole after that.**

Favourite 

This one is SUPER surprising! A friend and I went down to Fargo (the second closest American city, about four hours away), specifically to listen to this book. And we did it.  This books is hilarious! And so insightful. I loved that it was narrated by Ansari himself. 

2018 Goal check in: To see a full list of my 2018 goals, go here. 

Both February and March were great. I was successful with all of them. I read two 2018 releases each month (barely), I've read at least one adult novel per month, as for non-fiction, I am at 3 for the year (I made up for January's miss by consuming two in February). I have also knocked off  TWO books from my list of seven: The Hate U Give and The Queen of Attolia.  I think sometime in April I'll do a quarterly check in or something, and share my thoughts on some of the books. I am still failing on my audio book/physical book goal. Audio books are still a thing for me. My goals is to work on that for April. 

Anywho, that was a long winded wrap up. If you're still here- Thank you! 

Until next time, 

~Happy Reading Everyone.