Monthly Wrap-Up | March 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

March 2025 Wrap Up

The first couple of weeks in March was quite slow for me in terms of reading. I was in a bit of a slump and only finished two books in those two weeks. The good news is that the other six books happened in the second half of the month, so at least I got my reading mojo back!

My March 2025 TBR Intentions

I managed to read three books from my TBR, and cross one off as a dnf. I’m sorry, I loved Fourth Wing and I wanted to see the series through but I just didn’t feel excited about Onyx Storm as I was reading, and 25% in I just… didn’t want to pick it back up. Maybe I will finish it, one day, but it’s not a priority.

1. Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
2. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
3. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (dnf)
4. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
6. The Terror by Dan Simmons
7. All The Living and The Dead by Hayley Campbell

Books Read in March 2025

1. Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
2. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
3. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
4. The Main Dish by Michael Ruhlman
5. The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
6. Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
7. All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell
8. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Notable Books This Month

The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
I stumbled upon The Main Dish by the author while browsing on Audible. It was only an hour or so long, so I listened to it out of curiosity, and I ended up wanting more so I borrowed this book from Libby. I didn’t expect to get so engrossed in it. The whole time I was reading it I was completely immersed in his world of food and cooking, it was such an experience! I enjoy cooking but I’ve always known I’d never be a professional chef because I don’t care enough for precision and finesse; this book made me consider enrolling in the Culinary Institute of America! I eventually came to my senses and realized that while I love reading about the life of a chef, I don’t think I’d do well as one. Still, it made me want to!

All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell
This book blew my mind! It was the BOTM for my in-person bookclub that another member chose because it was one of their favorite books. I’ve had Stiff by Mary Roach on my TBR for ages and a morbid fascination about death and dying, so I thought this book would be really interesting. I expected something clinical and analytical, facts about the business of death, but it turned out to be much more emotional than that. It talked about what people in the death business did, but more importantly, it also talked about the people themselves; why they do it, how they got into it, the emotional toll it takes on them, ways they cope. There is a lot more to this book that I could go into; we had such an incredible discussion during our bookclub meeting for the book, but just suffice to say that I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about death and grieving.

April 2025 TBR Intentions

I wasn’t able to get to all the books I wanted to read last month but I’m hoping I’ll get them this month! Plus some others. I’m really looking forward to all of these!

1. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
2. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
3. The Terror by Dan Simmons
4. The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
6. Stoner by John Williams

How was your month in March? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful April with lots of great books!