This month I'm really excited - I finally finished the French novel I've been reading with my French tutor, Bonjour Tristesse! We started it over the summer and were reading one chapter a week (but we didn't read it every week), so the book took some time to get through. I originally picked Bonjour Tristesse up because it was on a list of good books for people learning French. It ended up a much more difficult read than I expected - there were things that my French tutor wasn't sure about. I was really glad I read it with her though, as she gave me a lot of insight into things I would have completely missed on my own.
So here's the list of everything I read this month:
Nonfiction
Fiction
- As Old as Time: a Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell
- Leopard's Hunt by Christine Feehan
- Spider-man: Animals Assemble by Mike Maihack (graphic novel)
- Spider-man: Quantum Quest by Mike Maihack (graphic novel)
- Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
- Dungeon of Dread by Rose Estes (game book/choose your own adventure)
And 4 Walleye magazines (pictured).
I read Dungeon of Dread because I have some old game books I wanted to check out. Unfortunately it's more of a choose your own adventure-style book, and so not exactly what I was looking for (game books usually have you making a character, keeping track of stats, and possibly rolling dice; choose your own adventure books have you read and make choices without having to do anything more). But it was a cute little story, and I got what was probably the best ending, having bested the wizard and gotten the treasure (me and my halfling buddy are going to use it to train more adventurers to stamp out evil)! It's been a long time since I read a choose your own adventure book, and it was a nice change of pace. 🙂
While I really enjoyed the Spider-Man graphic novels by Mark Maihack (especially Animals Assemble), I think my favourite book this month was As Old as Time, which tells the story of Disney's Beauty and the Beast with some twists in the story (it was Belle's mother who cursed the Beast). I was absolutely enchanted by the worldbuilding, and I loved how key events were hit from the original story but in different ways. The story also takes some drastically different turns that I wasn't really expecting. All in all, I definitely recommend As Old as Time, and will be interested in reading some other Disney Twisted Tales.
I will say though, I absolutely do NOT recommend Leopard's Hunt. It deals with some dark, triggering things, and I really should not have finished it. I only included it in this list because I read it this month.
So that was my March reading. How about you? Did you read anything good? Anything bad? Let me know in the comments! 🙂
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