What I Read – March 2026

Read:

The Singer’s Gun – Emily St. John Mandel (Vintage Books, 2015)

The School for Good Mothers – Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter – Heather Fawcett (Penguin Random House Audio, 2026)

The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965)

Here for a Good Time – Kim Spencer (Tundra Book Group, 2026)

Heads of the Coloured People – Nafissa Thompson-Spires (37 Ink, 2018)

The Finest Hotel in Kabul – Lyse Doucet (Allen Lane, 2025)

A Theatre for Dreamers – Polly Samson (Harper Collins Publishers, 2020)

Currently Reading:

The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Remembered Soldier – Anjet Daanje

So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell

Kin – Tayari Jones

Thoughts:

I was surprised, at the end of the month, to find I had read 8 books in March. I brought 3 books with me to Hong Kong plus others as ebooks and I didn’t finish a single one. (Peter finished the book he brought and so I gave him one of my extras to read.) 8 is a perfectly respectable number and I don’t regret a single minute I spent not reading in Hong Kong. I was pleased with myself because I thought to borrow an e-copy of The Return of the King on Libby and so we were still able to do our family chapter book time before bed, although we didn’t do it every night of the trip.

What’s Next:

In a similar manner, I didn’t write a lot of book reviews in March. I had scheduled ahead of time and then sort of lost my energy around it leading up to our trip. At this moment, I don’t plan on going back to review any more of the books I read in March. I do have a lot of books I’m excited to read right now, including some more ARCs I’ve been lucky enough to get a hold of so I expect my reviews to ramp up again in a week or so. Next week you can probably just expect more Hong Kong pictures.

2026 Reading Goals:

30/100 books (8 in March)

Theological: 0/12

Translated Works: 2/12 (none in March)

Pre-2025 TBR: 6/25 (Heads of the Coloured People and A Theatre for Dreamers both since 2020)

Goliaths: 4/6 (none in March)

Owned: 5/25 (The Singer’s Gun and A Theatre for Dreamers)

Current TBR: 145 books (previously 143)

Pearl’s List:

26/100 (8 in March)

The Hybrid Prince – Tui T. Sutherland

The Ship of the Dead – Rick Riordan

Starclimber – Kenneth Oppel

The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Brightest Night – Tui T. Sutherland

Silverwing – Kenneth Oppel

The Last Dragon on Mars – Scott Reintgen

Murder at the Museum – Alasdair Beckett-King