Welcome to March! My birth month. The month that contains spring break. Staff Appreciation Month at UNT.
In other words – objectively speaking – The Best Month.
And what makes a great month even better is looking forward to reading some really good books.
Book Clubs
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (also a 52 Book Club read – character-driven novel)
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Reading Challenges
The Ukraine by Artem Chapeye
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins
- A book with a title that is a complete sentence (POPSUGAR)
- Book that’s been on your shelf for over a year (Nowhere)
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
- A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary (POPSUGAR)
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
- Women in STEM (52 Book Club)
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
- Listen to a celebrity memoir (libro.fm)
Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese
- Read a romance with neurodivergent characters (Book Riot)
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
- A book about books (Nowhere)
- A plot similar to another book (52 Book Club)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The other book with the similar plot (52 Book Club)
Holy American Burnout! by Sean Enfield
- Read a book by an author with an upcoming event (virtual or in person) and then attend the event (Book Riot)
Additional/Ongoing Reads
Sarah and I are tackling Proust together this year, so I’ve just started Swann’s Way. I’m also still working through Sacred Self-Care for Lent, and reading several books about health.
What’s next on your TBR?
M. Suzanne Terry 
I’m knocking a couple of TBRs off my growing list. I’m going to start James Tynion IV’s The Nice House on the Lake after I finish the first volume of Blue Book. It’s been on there for a bit. I’ve finally started Ed Brubaker’s The Fade Out, and finished listening to Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Lots of sci-fi, horror, and noir on my TBR.
I’ve got some Camus coming up in my near future. I’ve never actually read one all the way through so that’s one of my goals this year.
This was my first Camus piece and it was definitely something that I found to be affirming both personally and artistically. It hit on things that I’d been thinking/feeling for some time, and helped with crafting or fine-tuning some absurdist and existential elements the play I’m writing. What I didn’t get from the 2 Kafka stories I listened to a couple of years ago, I got from Myth of Sisyphus.