MONTH IN REVIEW: March 2026

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on April 2, 2026 • ( 0 )

Hey, I’m remembering to do my Month in Review this time! March was actually a pretty decent month for me reading-wise, so let’s get into it.

March Reads

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
How to Kill a Witch by Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell
We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Six books in a month is pretty good for me nowadays! Of course, having a roadtrip to listen to an audiobook helped, but still, I am very happy with how this went.

Challenge Updates

GoodReads Challenge: My goal was to read 52 books this year. At the end of March, I am sitting at 14 books completed, which is 2 books ahead of schedule! Yay! In addition to that, I was very happy to complete all 12 achievements in their Winter Challenge. Double yay!

GoodReads Choice Awards Challenge: My goal was to read all of the winners of the GoodReads Choice Awards from last year. In March, I added one more to this challenge with How to Kill a Witch, the winner of the Best History/Biography Award, bringing my total books read to 3 out of 13. Not bad!

Beat the Backlist: I finally started this one! In March, I added two squares to my bingo board: I Reject Your Reality (Piranesi) and Blast From the Past (The Bear and the Nightingale).

Blog Updates

Blogging has slowed down a little, but hasn’t stopped completely. The main thing I really need to do is catch up on reviews. Isn’t that always the way? Here’s how blogging went in March:

Month in Review: 1
Top Ten Tuesday: 5
WWW Wednesday: 4
Book Blogger Hop: 2
Sunday Post: 1
Review: 1

14 posts in all. Not too bad, quite consistent actually, but again, I really want to get caught up on reviews.

Shop Updates

As I mentioned before, Tabby Cat Textiles is sort of on hold right now while I make some more things and find some things to sell in the warmer months. I’m also working to make a good stock of stuff to offer once fall and winter comes back around. I did manage to make two sales in March though, which was cool. One was for a friend who commissioned a custom order and the other was a random person from New Jersey who somehow found me. Very, very grateful to both of them. It always makes my heart happy when I see that notifaction pop up on my Etsy app!

Here’s the most recent thing I’ve finished. I love this pattern and have several of them on my shop right now, but this one is made with this really pretty rainbow yarn. I love all the colors. It’s not quite available yet – I still need to photograph it properly and write up the listing – but it will be soon!