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So we're in the first week of March and I am getting my TBR out there right off the bat. As always my TBR is overly ambitious but I think it just might be doable as long as I stay on top of everything. Without any further preamble we're going to jump right into the TBR.
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (2018): started February 28, 2022. This is a contemporary novel about a young Native Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer boy named Jonny who is a cybersex worker in a big city who is going to return to the reservation he's from for the funeral of his stepfather and is trying to get the money to make the trip while reminiscing about his past. I'm about halfway through this book right now and I'm not loving it but I'm interested to see where it's going.
- The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (2022): this is a new release thriller (and one of my book of the month selections for March. This is also the book club pick for both GabbyReads's The Book Troop and BooksandLala's Literally Dead Book Club so I'd love to get to this once I get my BOTM box. This is about a girl named Jess who needs to get away so she asks her half-brother Ben if she can crash with him in Paris. When she arrives she finds a very nice apartment and no Ben and the longer he's missing the more questions she has and the stranger she finds his neighbors. This sounds like a fun thriller and I'm excited for it.
- House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas (2020): Book one of the Crescent City series. This is the first book in the series and is an urban fantasy that involves angels and demons and I don't know much about this except that it's by Sarah J Maas and I love her. The second book just came out so I should probably read this one.
- House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas (2022): this is Book two of the Crescent City series. This is the new release and the reson why the first book is also on this TBR. We'll see how this goes.
- Tomie by Junji Ito (2016): this is a horror manga by my favorite author. This is about a girl named Tomie who can seduce any man and drive them to murder, often with the victim being herself. This was the hardest Junji Ito manga to find and I finally managed to find it at Barnes & Noble so I'm excited for it.
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes (2022): this is a sci fi horror novel described as Titanic meets The Shining set against a backdrop of a space salvage crew. I'm not generally a sci fi fan at all but I am here for literally everything else about this.
- Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester (2022): This is a horror novel about something called The Cur that's killing girls on the verge of womanhood, leaving mutilated bodies in its wake. It follows a mother/daughter pair as they try to get to the bottom of what's happening to these girls and the force behind it.
- Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (2022): this is a horror novel by the same author as Hex, which I absolutely loved. It follows a travel journalist/mountaineer Nick who wakes from a coma to find his buddy missing and himself suffering from extensive injuries. He claims he doesn't remember anything but he remembers everything and is haunted by the mysterious dangerous something that's inside him.
- The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates (2021): The Gravekeeper Book 1. This book follows a girl named Keira who lives in a gravekeeper's cottage at the edge fo a cemetery where she can hear the whispering of the dead from the surrounding graves. She ends up a target of these ghosts as she tries to find a way to free the spirit. The second book in this series comes out this month so I want to get to this one now.
- Gwendy's Button Box by Richard Chizmar and Stephen King (2017): this is the first book in the Button Box trilogy and is a novella set in Castle Rock, Maine. It follows a 12 year old girl named Gwendy who takes the suicide stairs every day of the summer until a man in an odd little black hat calls out to her. I don't know much about this series but I love the covers and I love Stephen King and it's a novella so I'm hoping it will be a good first Stephen King book for the year.
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (2020): this is the March selection for Cheryl Strayed's Wild Reads Literati book club. This is the 2021 Pulitzer Price winner for Fiction and is a historical fiction taking place in the 1950s about the night watchman at a jewel bearing plant on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota who is also a tribal council member fighting against the "emancipation" bill on the floor of congress. You also follow Patrice "Pixie" who works at the plant and is determined not to get stuck at the reservation for life. She ends up in Minneapolis to find her sister who seems to have disappeared. I have the hardcover edition from Literati but I also have rented the audiobook from Libby and I'm currently listening to it. I'm about an hour into the 13 hour audiobook and it's pretty good so far.
And that's everything I'm planning to read in the month of March, although I just got some new releases from Barnes & Noble and I am being seriously tempted by new books. I think at the end of the month I'll do a book haul for the first quarter of the year, so January-March, and discuss what books I've read so far from those new books.
Hope you have some great reading plans for March, I am pretty excited about the month's upcoming reading.
Happy reading!
Richelle
