Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight 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 2026 Wrap Up
March was a whirlwind! I was kept busy for most of the month with regular stuff and some spring cleaning. And we also had some friends come to visit during spring break with their family. We spent full days with them doing activities we don’t normally do anymore and we were exhausted but so happy to see them and spend time with them. These are people we love, so even though it was tiring, we would’ve love for them to stay even longer. It also made us realize that we’re too young to feel so old, and they’ve given us the inspiration to get more active. New fitness goals coming up for the new month and beyond!
My March 2026 TBR Intentions
As for books, I only ended up reading two out of four books in my March TBR and a total of five books for the whole month, but one of them is the Sherlock Holmes collection, and as I mentioned in last month’s wrap up post, it is massive at 72 hours or 1796 pages and is technically made up of an equivalent of nine books? So it’s not too bad I guess.
Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle- The Glass Château by Stephen P. Kiernan
The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD- This Is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
Books Read in March 2026
- We Met Like This by Kasie West
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman
- The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD
- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Replay by Ken Grimwood
Notable Book(s) This Month
Well, obviously most of my time was spent on Sherlock Holmes! I listened to the definitive collection on audio narrated by Stephen Fry, and it was the most wonderful experience. I was always looking forward to getting back to it and was so sad when it was over. I had such a strong urge to restart the book from the beginning once I got to the end. It just feels like such a comforting book, and Stephen Fry is just the best narrator, I really felt completely lost in the Holmes’ world and I loved it!
The other books were good too, I didn’t have a bad read this month, but Sherlock Holmes was obviously the standout.
April 2026 TBR Intentions
I’ve already started rereading Foundryside, the first book in The Founders Trilogy, and my aim is to finally finish the series. I’m actually anticipating another busy month so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to read as much as I want to and I don’t want to disappoint myself but I’m hoping to get to as many of the books on my Spring TBR as possible.
- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
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!
I really want to get into Robert Jackson Bennett’s books, so I look forward to seeing what you think of them! I also need to keep reading Sherlock Holmes (I only plan on reading the novels, but so far I’ve only finished the first).
Foundryside is a reread and I remember really loving it! Hopefully the rest of the series holds up. I’ve been seeing his other books around and I’m curious about them too. Sherlock Holmes is so much fun, I was honestly surprised with how much I enjoyed the books. I hope you will too!
Looks like a fab month. What did you think of My Friends?
My Friends was great, but I’ve only read this and A Man Called Ove, and I loved A Man Called Ove more. I’m really looking forward to reading Backman’s other works too!
I liked My Friends but it’s not one of his best. I would highly recommend Anxious People, I loved it.
I’ll make it next on my list! Thank you!
I love watching Sherlock Holmes, but shamefully I’ve only read a couple of original books. I need to sort it out!!
Have a great week!
There are so many wonderful Sherlock Holmes adaptations and retellings and I’ve loved many of them but it was surprising to realize that I never read the original Sherlock stories until now!
Wow that’s amazing that you finished the entire Sherlock Holmes Collection. Are the books suspenseful or mainly mystery type cases? You had a good book month. And if I decide to pick up the Backman novel … I might go with the audio since Marin Ireland is usually quite good. thx for your reviews.
The stories are not really suspenseful, imho. They’re not like the modern mystery novels I enjoy where we sort of try to figure out whodunnit along with the characters. With Sherlock and Watson, I felt like I was more passively watching what happens, especially since we don’t get a lot of the information until Sherlock has already solved the crime and is explaining his deductions. I love the stories because the characters felt familiar and comforting to me, but I wouldn’t categorize them with the thriller/mysteries I usually enjoy.
Stephen Fry is pretty perfect for narrating Sherlock Holmes, I think. Good to know that collection is good, though!
You tempt me to start back on Foundryside, but realistically I know I won’t get to it, ahaha.
This was my first Stephen Fry narration and it made me want to get more audiobooks narrated by him. I’m probably going to get the Mythos series if I can.
I’m really enjoying Foundryside right now! I do remember really loving the first book, so hopefully the rest of the series will be worth reading too.