March Reading Wrap Up: A Month of Diverse and Engaging Reads

Did I intend to spend the whole month reading books from female authors? No. Did it happen? Yes. Do I regret it? What do you think?! Heck no! It was a great, insightful month of reading, filled with diversity, struggle, mystery, and wanderlust. This post details every book I read this March with brief little bullet points. To see my full take on these books, watch my YouTube video (linked below!)

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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
https://amzn.to/3Kexp6n

• YA/Middle School

• Thought-provoking novel

• Incredible, and I don’t know why I didn’t read it sooner

• Features both faith and science
  

Educated by Tara Westover
https://amzn.to/437ijYX

• Memoir

• Gritty, and at times unbelievable

• Inspiring, story of over-coming

• Themes of abuse

Paris Letters by Janice Mcleod
https://amzn.to/3maaG3l

• Memoir

• Inspires sense of wanderlust

• Addresses budgeting for travelers

• Sweet love story
  

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Bully
https://amzn.to/3KCTrRz

• YA Novel

• Themes of injustice spec. towards indigenous people

• Thriller/mystery

• Long read >400 pages
  

Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
https://amzn.to/3ZOuB5F

• Novel that shifts narrators

• Witchcraft themes

• Love story meets thriller

• Set in Pacific Northwest

Becoming by Michelle Obama
https://amzn.to/40N2Jjt

• Memoir

• Thought-provoking

• Insightful and inspiring

• Comprehensive (covers Michelle’s upbringing to life post-White House)
  

I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequist
https://amzn.to/3UmyT36

• Memoir

• Vulnerable/relatable/encouragement

• Inspires wanderlust/foodie feelings

• Themes of faith
  

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
https://amzn.to/3Kf22ID

• Memoir

• General themes of abuse, substance abuse, mental illness

• Features indigenous people/culture

• Heavy/dark read