What I read in March 2025

March was good to me. As well as reading 12 books, I stayed with a couple of old friends for a few days (and came home with slightly more books than I left with…), went to this quarter’s Emotional Madness (my triumphant(?) return to the stage is in June), and caught up on a ton of TV I’d been meaning to watch, on top of the standard excessive board-gaming.

Entangled Life, Cold Grace, Welcome to Ferrendale, Our Wives Under the Sea

Entangled Life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures, by Merlin Sheldrake - 4.5*

Cold Grace, by Meredith Miller - 4.5*

Welcome to Ferrendale, by Oli Jacobs - 4*

Our Wives Under the Sea, by Julia Armfield - 4*

Madame Matisse, The Galaxy and the Ground Within, Bare, No and Other Love Stories

Madame Matisse, by Sophie Haydock - 4*

The Galaxy and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers - 5*

Bare, by Lorna Tucker - 4*

No & Other Love Stories, by Kirsty Logan - one my new acquisitions on my trip. 4*

Everything That's Underneath, Books and Bone, Familiar and Flame, Luminous

Everything That’s Underneath, by Kristi DeMeester - 3.5*

Books and Bone, by Veo Corva - 4.5*

Familiar and Flame, by Veo Corva - 4*

Luminous, by Silvia Park - review coming soon! 4.5*

Looking ahead…

In a Place of Darkness, A Sunny Place for Shady People, We Who Hunt Alexanders, I'll Never Be Young Again

Hoping to get some extra reading in over the Easter break this month, but we’ll see…

I’m already halfway through In a Place of Darkness, by Stuart MacBride, and looking forward to the rest of it!

A Sunny Place for Shady People, by Mariana Enriquez and translated by Megan McDowell, and I’ll Never Be Young Again, by Daphne Du Maurier, are a couple of the books I picked up on my travels last month that I want to get to sooner rather than later.

Having enjoyed other work of his, I’m also particularly excited to read We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford this month.

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Writer of blogs and short stories, reader of books, player of board games, lover of cats, editor of web content, haver of PhD.

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