What’s the best book you’ve read in March?

One of my favorite tweets is from a KZfaq comment that says “if the apocalypse happened, i would just pass away. why do people in movies always have so much will to live.” So true, I would simply perish.

I feel like How to Keep House While Drowning killed a lot of my shame. I adopted her laundry process and it has made my life so much easier.

"Anything after Migrations is not the book's fault" took me OUT lmaoo

Never heard of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds before, but I'm going to have to pick it up after your review.

Best books in March were I Who Have Never Known Men and Kindred. Picked them both up because of your constant love for these books😍 thank you!

Didn't know it but I needed some piou piou swoosh swoosh on this grey Monday afternoon. 😆

I will probably will not survive without my migraine pills in the apocalypse I feel you 😂

Monday Emily gives me all the energy I need for the week :)

Genuinely fascinated by the dishes mini rant 😂😂 we usually dont have dishwashers here, so i do the dishes after every meal, i would go insane if i see dirty dishes laying there for more than a day

If you’re on the fence about Kindle Unlimited, go for it yall! I popped in earlier and WOW they’ve expanded. Becky Chambers, NK Jemisin, Jade City, Murderbots, Poppy War…..

I agree that how to keep house while drowning is validating, and it did help especially in regards to reframing how you view housework

I who have never known men/Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes was definitely my favorite this month! I don't know why I expected a light and fun story, similar to the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt TV show, when everybody said it was weird??? Anyway, truly loved it, read it in 1 day, recommended it to all my friends 🔥

I'm still slogging through The Priory of the Orange Tree. I like it, but yeah definitely not enough dragons and magical school.

Know My Name is my favorite memoir (now tied with Finding Me)! Such a powerful, maddening, heartbreaking read, but so well done ❤️

Some good reads I had in March are The Midnight Library, Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes, Cutting for Stone and two books by Claire Keegan:Small Things Like These and Foster.

I had the same experience as you with Toni Morrison, but with Sula. But I'm really hesitating whether to try my luck with her again. Some writers just aren't for you, and that's okay.

Life As We Knew It is soo good!!

Same I hate to do the dishes 😂

I actually have to best books this month. First a french book by Elise Turcotte and second is one of you favorites of last year! I'll talk about it in a future video. I really like the book by Elif Shafak. And I REALLY don't want to survive an apocalypse. Really not!

Loved the Life As We Knew It series!

Nice wrap up video. I recently picked up a copy of "Migrations" and hope to read it soon. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍

Oooof yes. March was a reading slump, especially after finishing Tender is the Flesh. I felt .. defeated .. after finishing that book, and haven’t been able to pick up another one since. Maybe April will bring new reading happiness for us both 😂😂

You have such a diverse range of reading that I always enjoy watching 🫶 thanks for the great videos!

I need more books with actually grown women too, and not just girls that just turned 18 (if even that) or are just 21 or something 🥲 kinda crazy how rare that is

I had such a bad reading month 😅 I only read 4 and 3 were audiobooks. My one physical book was a 1 star, but the 3 audiobooks were good! My favorite was The Agatha’s, a fun YA mystery that doesn’t take itself too seriously!

I've only read Sula by Toni Morrison and it sounds like it's an easier emotional read based upon what I've seen about Beloved and The Bluest Eye. The audio is really good and not long.

Marh was a tough month but I did have some good ones. -The Lost Village by Camilla Sten 4.5☆ (good mystery thriller translated from Swedish) -A Power Unbound by Freya Marske 4.25☆ (first series I started and finished this year) -Taken by the Witch Queen by Luna Fury 4.75☆ (smut that helped with the slump 👀😊)

10 minutes 38 seconds sounds so good!

Migrations and The Bluest Eye are two of my favorite books that I read last year 🤣 I can definitely see how not being in the right headspace would make them much less enjoyable though.

I wonder why March is such a struggle? I had a difficult time in March as well, but I’m in Australia so the weather explanation doesn’t really hold true here - we are coming to the end of summer, and Autumn isn’t really a thing (at least not in Perth), so the days are still in the early 30s Celsius.

It's time to read more Elif shafak books. I've only read one (Bastards of Istanbul), which was okay. Thank you for recommendation...❤

It’s not too dark 😂 I don’t wanna live in the apocalypse after

The 2 best books I read in March are After Annie by Anna Quindlen and The Girls we Sent Away by Meagan Church.

Simplify the kitties dishes-get stainless steel or ceramic bowls.

The best book I read in March was The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. It was so good. I read a Master of Djinn in February, and given your feelings on that , plus the on in this video , I think you would like it - it’s heavier on the mystery I think, but it was my first novel by that author. I’m going to try City of Stairs and Foundryside now

With R. J. Bennett action writing I personally get so anxious that I start feeling bad and start avoiding the book. Still similarly to you I enjoy his books overall

I read The Bluest Eye in February. I liked it but I am not surprised that you did not do well with it based on other books that you don’t like. It has a lot of heavy topics. I read Home and Recitatif last year. I liked both of them, but I suggest Recitatif. It’s the story of two women, one white and one Black, who meet as girls and cross paths at various points in their lives. Toni Morrison deliberately does not tell us the color of each character’s skin. It is up to the reader to figure it out. If your copy has the Zadie Smith foreward, please read it afterwards so you don’t taint your thoughts beforehand.

I read Life As We Knew It as a kid and loved it but never continued on with the series for some reason but have been recently considering going back to it

I've never heard the term "reading on the diagonal before. I am so not a speed reader 😂

I never heard anyone talk about Migration. I read it last year, knowing only very little about it. It sounded like an amazing book, but it just kinda wasn't for me? ^^' It's hard to explain for me without spoiling anything. I thought many parts were very good, but then the main character was just way to chaotic for me. But I am glad to hear you speak about this book and knowing I am not the only one with difficult feelings :D

I definitely liked Once There Were Wolves more than Migrations.

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I was so bored reading Migrations! I've read slow books before but I just didn't care enough about the main characters or what she was doing. It was for me the book equivalent of atmospheric background music.

You are such a badass Emily for putting pots and pans in your dishwasher 😅

Susan Beth Pfeffer "Life As We Know It" is a 4 book series and all the books are good! If you end up liking this one you need to get the second book "The Dead And The Gone" about a high school boy in New York and his struggles after the moon is hit.

I think you might like The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I haven’t read it, but it’s a murder mystery in a fantasy world but I don’t *think* it devolves into a ton of action.

hard agree on march being the sad month !! im over the cold !!! stop giving me amazing weather for one week to then turn around and be freezing and raining 24/7

Will you do a review of “The Last Murder at the End of the World”? I saw you didn’t like it on GR and curious as to your thoughts

As an American, I can confidently say that the way you described Vigilance is not dystopian, it's our reality 😢

Probably a dumb question, but what do you mean by reading in diagonal? Also, casting my vote for the island of missing trees as your next Elif Shafak read! One of my faves from last year :) and I learned a ton about Cyprus

My most depressing month is November bc I know I won't see proper sun for months lol

Migrations was a big miss for me too. I felt like some of the concepts of the book, if you take them separately, sound really nice (cute birds, come on!), but the main character was so annoying! Also, I think I visibly cringed at least 4 or 5 times throughout the book, which is never a good sign 😂 This will sound harsh, but I wish another author would borrow the theme and write a similar book, but better, without insufferable characters...It's not your fault, Emily!

I've read the Life As We Knew It trilogy and it gets progressively darker but stays YA. I really liked it but there's a fourth book out now and I'm not sure I'm emotionally prepared for things to get even darker.

Are you going to read the tainted cup by Robert Jackson Bennett? Same author you mentioned twice here

totally with you on migration, it just did not work for me

I love Migrations because it so perfectly captured the melancholy grief I feel about climate change and ecosystem collapse, but I can totally see how others might not enjoy that, lol. Particularly if in a reading slump!

2nd!!

I don't really have much to say (except that I want to read a few of these, it's not on this list but I want to put I who have never known men on my 2024 fantasy bingo), but for anyone who cares but doesn't know r*pist Brock Allen Turner changed his name to Allen Turner. Still a r*pist though.

Emily i was looking for your drunk books reviews and couldnt find them . Did you delete them 😭

İ finished the Green Bone Saga today and… İ love and hate you simultaneously for introducing me to this universe😭♥️ how am İ going to move on and read other things now that İ finished Jade Legacy?😭

Girl what’s on your lips tho ? Dis nous le combo ?

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I've just finished The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, and i quite enjoyed it. That's the first book i read from him. Now I'm not sure if i should try to read his other books.

I hear you on surviving the apocalypse. I'm very much a 'Fuck this shit, I'm out' person if the apocalypse happens. I owe you a huge thank you! I was browsing my local library the other day and stumbled across 'The Goblin Emperor'. I would have skipped over it if I hadn't heard you talking about it, because this copy is thoroughly battered and has a large mystery stain on it. No one likes a mystery stain. But I borrowed it and I'm now about 25% through and LOVING it! Thank you so much for recommending such a great book :)