It’s March! We are heading into spring, thankfully! Hopefully the weather will get a little warmer this month and I can start shaking off the winter blues. Fingers crossed. I feel like I’ve done pretty well with the reading this month, though for the reading challenges themselves I still have a fair way to go.
2024 Reading Challenges / Update #1
Goal: 13/70 (+8)
Disney Reading Challenge 2024
2/40 (0) Prompts Completed
Books to Read: Gay Aliens and Queer Folk, The Matzah Ball, The First Days
Musicals Reading Challenge 2024
3/24 (+2) Prompts Completed
Read
Six – Six – A book with at least one queen
Alison Weir’s In the Shadow of Queens was a perfect fit for this prompt, with short stories that take place adjacent to her Tudor Queens series, so every queen from Six had some role to play here. It’s definitely a great ‘taster’ book too – I haven’t read the Tudor Queens series yet, but I definitely want to now!
Grease – We Go Together – A book set in a school
The Tenth Girl was an intriguing, gripping gothic horror and I really loved this one. It was an audiobook, and the narrators did an absolutely excellent job with the two main characters.
Books to Read: Shakespeare, Chasing the Duke, Crowned a Traitor
Avengers Challenge!
3/6 (+3) Prompts Completed
Read
Captain America – The First Avenger – WWII book or something set in the 1930s or 1940s
Blitz Spirit seemed like the perfect choice for this one – it’s a compilation of diary extracts from the Mass Observation project, taken from throughout the way, with the author providing the context for what people were experiencing at the time. Really intriguing, and a huge insight into what people were thinking and feeling during this time – very relevant, too, to what a lot of people living through the pandemic.
Iron Man – Science Bro #1 – read something Science Fiction, something with an inventor, or something with a billionaire playboy philanthropist
This seemed like the perfect opportunity to pick up Goldilocks. A bit more heavy on the science side than I tend to enjoy, and it was fairly slow for a good while, but overall I ended up enjoying it.
Thor – Anything related to Norse mythology or anything with a himbo
I really enjoyed historical fantasy The Valkyrie, and am so glad this prompt led me to that book!
Books to Read: The Science of Marvel, Den of Spies, True Biz
Barbie Reading Challenge
1/17 (0) Prompts Completed
Currently Reading
Pink – Pink just looks so good on us – A book with a pink cover
This was the perfect chance for me to dig into Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up, and I’m really enjoying it so far – though worth noting it is very different from the series based of it (Not Dead Yet), though I was kind of expecting it to be quite different. Still, it’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder why even bother basing it off the book!
Barbie World – I’m a doll, but I still wanna party – A book with a party
I am absolutely loving Say You’ll Be My Jaan – I was so excited when I picked this up and from the very first page I have really enjoyed this fake engagement romcom.
Journey to the Real World – When we get to the real world – A book set in a fantasy/mythical land
For this one, I’m currently listening to the audiobook of Bookshops & Bonedust. It’s a prequel to Legends & Lattes, which I thought I had but apparently don’t, but I’m enjoying this one enough to pick it up once I’m done.
Books to Read: Ace of Spades, A Hunger Like No Other, A Curse of Blood and Wolves
Netflix Movies & TV Shows
13/24 (+1) Prompts Completed
The 100 – Dystopian – book set in a dystopian world
This one I sort of completed by accident – at the moment, this specific challenge is a little on the back burner while I catch up with the others, but I’d attached Goldilocks to this prompt, so it’s another one completed for this.
Books to Read: So You Want to Talk About Race, Daisy Jones & The Six, Hexed
I definitely feel like I’m making some good progress this month, and hopefully will finish the three books I’m currently reading relatively soon. I pick my next read based on whichever challenge has the ‘lowest’ amount of prompts completed, so fingers crossed it’ll start evening out across them all now. How’s your reading going for the year? Are you enjoying the books you’re reading for the first part of 2024?
Unwrapping Words 