#theunreadshelfproject2018 - March update

One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.

PHYSICAL (14)

Between Shades of Gray 

Salt to the Sea

The Alice Network

Reading People

The Chemistry of Calm

Jane and the Wandering Eye

Kristin Lavransdatter

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Gilead

A Share in Death

The Five Love Languages

How to Hug a Hedgehog

I am Malala

For Times of Trouble

KINDLE (5)

Brideshead Revisited

Whose Body

Cloud of Witness

Unnatural Death

Angelfall

NOOK (2)

A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection

Murder on the Orient Express 

GOODREADS (161)

The Book Thief

The Thorn Birds

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Jayber Crow

An Ember in Ashes

The Once and Future King

The Wednesday Wars

The Beekeepers Apprentice

The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery

I Capture the Castle

Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

Flight of the Sparrow

The Gilded Years

Dead Wake

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Amy Snow

Hannah Coulter

The Sea of Tranquility

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

The Girl in the Castle

The Time in Between

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

The Eyre Affair

Gift from the Sea

Poison Study

Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)

Emma (The Austen Project #3)

My Brilliant Friend

The Year of Living Danishly

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap

The Penderwicks

Honeymoon Hotel

The Night Circus

Home

Lila

Code Name Verity

The Marvels

Moon Over Manifest

Enchanted Islands

At Home in Mitford

The Sweetness of Forgetting

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Into Thin Air

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper 

My Life in France

My Berlin Kitchen

The Professor and the Madman

Quartet in Autumn

The Muse

A Clearing in the Distance

Winter Solstice

Wolf Hall

Gods in Alabama

The Historian

The Winds of War

Team of Rivals

One True Loves

Atonement

The Tea Rose

The Night Watch

Night

Life After Life

Saint Maybe

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Mindset

Walk on Earth a Stranger

The Anatomist's Wife

A Portrait of Emily Price

Grave Mercy

Death at La Fenice

A Study in Charlotte

A Beautiful Blue Death

Flight of Dreams

From Doon with Death

The Coroner's Lunch

Raven Black

A Test of Wills

The Cater Street Hangman

The Crossing Places

Whispers Beyond the Veil

The Mangle Street Murders

The Kitchen House

First Impressions

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

Legendary

Another Day in the Death of America

The Essex Serpent

Caroline

The Other Alcott

Big Stone Gap

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Name of the Wind

Possession

The Atlas of Forgotten Places

Uncharted
Force of Nature

Birds of a Feather

The Likeness

Loving Lucianna

Terms of Endearment

Three Wishes

Still Me

The Horse Dancer

The Dark Inquiry

A Perilous Undertaking

The Austen Escape

The Precious One

A Fall of Marigolds

Margarettown

Lady Crenshaw's Christmas

Origin

The Dollhouse

The Secret of the India Orchid

The Lady of Bolton Hill

The Fairest Beauty

The Silent Songbird

My Cousin Rachel

The Goose Girl

The Suspect's Daughter

Jane Austen's First Love

Prodigal Summer

Orphan Train

Dawn at Emberwilde

The Hearts We Mend

44 Scotland Street

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window

The Forgetting Time

The Sea House

A Conspiracy in Belgravia

Magpie Murders

The Secret Garden

Hum if You Don't Know the Words

Caleb's Crossing

For Darkness Shows the Stars

The Moonstone

The Day the Angels Fell

Six of Crows 

The Princess Bride

Rules of Murder

The Bear and the Nightingale

The Hate U Give

Eleanor Oliphant is Just Fine

The Mountain Between Us

This Must be the Place

Luck, Love and Lemon Pie

The Madwoman Upstairs

The Bean Trees

The Aviator's Wife

East of Eden 

In Dubious Battle

Britt Marie was Here

The Seven Sisters

Jane of Austin

Unequal Affections

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

A Wilder Rose

Everything I Never Told You

The Great Halifax Explosion

Emma in the Night

The Railway Children

2018 Reading Goals - March update

March was another great month for my reading goals. Here is how I did.

READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE

• I read one classic book - A Wrinkle in Time 

READ MORE NONFICTION

• I read one nonfiction book - For Times of Trouble

READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)

• I read five books from my shelves - The Book Thief, Murder on the Orient Express, Still Me, The Anatomist's Wife and A Timeless Romance Anthology: Mail Order Bride Collection

What I've Been Reading - March 2018

Welcome to What I've Been Reading, where I share my (quick and personal) thoughts on what I've been reading this past month. For specifics (plot summary, etc.) about each book, click on the provided links or book images.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (5 stars)

I can't believe I waited so long to read this book. I loved it. The writing and storytelling were so good. I see myself rereading this one many times. 

Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha Christie (2 stars)

I've read a handful of Agatha Christie's mysteries and have really enjoyed them, however, I didn't enjoy this one. It was simply too methodical.

Still Meby Jojo Moyes (3 stars)

I really enjoyed Me Before You and After You, but I could have done without this third installment. It was just okay.

A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'Engle (2 stars)

I somehow never read this as a child. I am glad to have finally done so, but it wasn't the right book for me. I could see its merit, but it wasn't for me.

The Anatomist's Wife (A Lady Darby Mystery)by Anna Lee Huber (4 stars)

This was such a fun read. It had everything I enjoy in a book. History, mystery and a little romance. I really liked it.  

Ashes on the Moorby Sarah M. Eden (4 stars)

Sarah M. Eden never disappoints. She continues to be one of my favorite authors. I am always guaranteed a well written, clean historical romance. This was no exception.

Stay with Meby Ayobami Adebayo (3 stars)

This was an intense read and one I will never forget. If the content hadn't of been so hard for me to digest and the characters had been more likable, I may have enjoyed it more, because the pacing was spot on. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. 

For Times of Trouble : Spiritual Solace from the Psalmsby Jeffrey R. Holland (5 stars)

I haven't spent a lot of time studying the Psalms. I loved this deeper look at them and will be returning to this book often. 

Mail Order Bride Collection (A Timeless Romance Anthology Book 16)(4 stars)

This collection of short stories was a lot of fun and just what I needed between a couple difficult reads. Clean, historical romance. 

Americanahby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars)

There were things I loved about this one and things I wish had been different. I loved the writing and the story telling, but I wish there had been a little more balance between the two main characters stories. We get a lot of one and not a lot of the other Overall, though, a really good read.