Required Reading: March

Hello March! :) March is my favorite month of the year — can you guess why?

I started Required Reading last February in an attempt to tackle my Mt. TBR into (semi) submission. This is a small reading challenge were I pick four books as priority books to be read within the month. They should follow some sort of theme if I can find one, but there could also be no reason for that. The only rules for this mini-challenge are:

  • The books should be read within the specified month
  • These books should be in my TBR and not yet to be acquired
  • These books cannot be used for any other reading challenges I am participating in.

So how did I do last February?

The truth? Some kind of miserable. I may have had encountered some sort of reading slump right after I finished reading Emma and my brain refused to read at its normal speed. Out of the four books I listed last month, I only finished two on time:

  • Delirium by Lauren Oliver
  • Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly (review to be posted later this week)

I’m still reading Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis and there’s no hope for me starting Something Borrowed yet. So…in terms of quantity, I kind of passed, but it was such slow reading that it nearly drove me out of my mind. This makes me wonder if setting specific required books to read is more detrimental than just reading whatever comes to mind first.

Ah well. But I’m not one to back out from a challenge I set for myself, and I still want to conquer my Mt. TBR somewhat. So even if February’s challenge results weren’t really that good (hey, February was a short month!), I’m still doing this mini challenge.

Yeah, I can be a bit masochistic sometimes. That doesn’t mean I won’t ever read Something Borrowed anyway — the movie is coming soon, and what better time to read the book than before watching the movie, right?

But I digress. It’s a new month, so it’s time to move on! It’s time for Required Reading for March!

Required Reading: March

Truth be told, I am not entirely sure what theme I’m going for this month. The ones on my list don’t really have a central theme to it, except that two books I got there are for free (one won and one gift) and the two others I got for myself as rewards. I was thinking of making the theme about “heroes”, but I’m not sure if one book fit that theme. So…let’s go back to the gift theme instead. This is my birth month, after all. :)

thanks, weheartit

And there you go. I don’t know if I’ll be able to make the challenge this month. Let’s see if my birth month will be favorable for my required reading. Maybe I should give myself a reward if I read all four…like disney jewelry perhaps? …Nah.

So, how about you? Any books you want to bump up your TBR this month? Books you must read, no matter what? Do share! :)

10 Thoughts on “Required Reading: March

  1. Love this mini-challenge! :) And I can so relate with “books you MUST read no matter what.” Haha. Ever since I started doing my own reading challenge, most of the books I read were not exactly the books I would have WANTED to read. But the good thing is, I found out they were good books too. :)

    The Northern Light is in my wishlist! Looking forward to your review on this. :)

    • I figured I need to have some reading order so I can get to the older books in my TBR. Whenever I get new ones, I tend to read them first and the old ones get unnoticed. I’ve had books in my TBR that I’ve bought since…2006! :o

  2. Hi, Tina!

    I can’t seem to identify a title in my TBR that I need to bump up. Oh well, I guess that’s what I get when I decided to take it easy on my reading this year. I haven’t participated in any challenges so far and I’m not planning to join one anytime soon.

    By the way, I think you’ll love Storm Front! I had fun reading it!

    And advance happy birthday to you, Tina! St. Paddy’s Day babies rock!

    • Some people told me Harry Dresden is like Kate Daniels, so I’m looking forward to reading that. :)

      Advance happy birthday to you too, Peter! *fist bump* LOL, yay for St. Paddy’s Day birthdays. :)

  3. Northern Light!! I am looking forward to your review. I have Revolution on my TBR and thinking of reading it soon.

    Ariel will be extremely happy once he sees you are reading his favorite book!

    • I have Revolution scheduled in June, I think. Except if I get impatient after reading Northern Light and want more Donnelly. :P

  4. Monique on March 7, 2011 at 11:39 am said:

    I love the concept of the challenged and would love to join (although my blog isn’t exactly a book blog, just a personal, anything-goes one). However, I’m sure that, if I join, I won’t be able to keep up with the 4-book requirement. Between taking care of my daughter and husband, and my day job, I could hardly squeeze in a few hours of uninterrupted reading.

    Maybe I could just “cheat” and challenge myself to read 2-3 books instead? :D

    • Hi Monique! Whatever works for you. :) I’m just doing this so I can pay attention to the older books in my TBR. I tend to forget about them when I get newer books. ^^

  5. Monique on March 7, 2011 at 11:39 am said:

    I love the concept of the challenge and would love to join (although my blog isn’t exactly a book blog, just a personal, anything-goes one). However, I’m sure that, if I join, I won’t be able to keep up with the 4-book requirement. Between taking care of my daughter and husband, and my day job, I could hardly squeeze in a few hours of uninterrupted reading.

    Maybe I could just “cheat” and challenge myself to read 2-3 books instead? :D

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