A Month of Rereading Books | March 2023 Wrap-Up

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I’m back! Did you miss me? After taking a break from blogging and social media for almost a month, I am back to hopefully delight you with my endless screaming about books and writing! March was quite the month for me, there were many ups and downs and I ended up reading very little. Let’s talk about the books I read, and what I plan to do next month in this March 2023 Wrap-Up!

The Books I Read in March

Septimus Heap – Angie Sage

I was not kidding with the title of this post. March, like a lot of 2023 so far, was a month of rereads for me. Honestly, life has been busy and stressful and my mental health hasn’t been the best – all situations that make me reach for familiar books!

I revisited the Septimus Heap series in March and had such a fun time diving back into this world! As I am writing this in my childhood bedroom on a visit home for the weekend, I am actually looking right at all of these books on my shelf! All my copies are in German since I read them as a child and my English was not good enough back then but I actually listened to the audiobooks in English this time around. What can I say, I still love this world and the writing style and all the magical weirdness!

Revisiting childhood favourites is always an interesting experience because it often makes me realise what stories influenced my tastes and I can trace back certain elements of my own writing through all the books I grew up reading. What I took from the Septimus Heap books is definitely the strong writing voice and my love of strong magical women who love wearing purple!

While I really enjoyed reading the first three books, I’m not sure I’m interested enough to continue the series for a full reread.

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Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo

Honourable Mentions

Because I didn’t write a February 2023 Wrap-Up, there are some books I never talked about! Eventually, some of them will get their own posts and reviews, but for now, you can simply enjoy looking at all these pretty covers of some books I read recently.

A Personal Update

This is the part of the Wrap-Up where I give you an update on my personal life!

At the end of February, I decided to take a break from blogging and social media. My plan was to spend that time recharging my creative juices and creating fun content for when I came back. Unfortunately, my March started with me catching Covid. I sort of hoped that I would be spared after three years in this pandemic, but I guess not. Recovering took me the better part of the month and it’s really just been the last week where I’ve felt like I’m back to my normal energy levels.

In the meantime, I played an absurd amount of My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock, watched a bunch of TV shows, continued my Critical Role Mighty Nein rewatch, and was generally mostly a human blob. Not much reading outside of the few audiobooks I mentioned because I just wasn’t up for it.

Now, I’m back and honestly very excited to get back to creating! I missed blogging and reading everyone else’s posts (I have been so bad at blog hopping, it’s embarrassing) and being around on Instagram. I actually have a little content calendar for April that I’ll most definitely be changing up as I go but it exists! Look at me trying to be a creator with a plan!

Camp NaNoWriMo

Apart from hopefully being semi-consistent on the blog and my bookstagram this month, I’m also participating in Camp NaNoWriMo!

I will be working on the sci-fi project that I started in November during the “big” NaNoWriMo to hopefully turn it into something vaguely story-shaped. You can read more about that project and how the writing went in my Writing Update series.

My main goals for Camp NaNoWriMo and “Project Space Archive” as it’s currently called are:

• figure out what this story wants to be
• write an actual outline
• start drafting/rewriting scenes with a goal of 15k words
• have fun!

I’ll probably turn my usual reading updates into reading and writing updates for the month to keep you up to date with how writing is going! It might just be me crying about words not making sense though, you have been warned.

Oh, and if you’re also participating and would like to be buddies on the NaNoWriMo website, you can add me here! Let’s write together! ✨

Let’s Chat!

And that’s it for my March 2023 Wrap-Up! Is 2023 just going to be the year of rereading books for me? Possibly. But in April, I hope I can read some new releases and books that have been sitting on my TBR for a while, I have to mix it up a little!

As always, I love hearing from you so let’s have a chat in the comments!

⭐️ How was your reading month?

⭐️ Do you ever revisit books you loved when you were younger?

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