March Reading Recap

March was a good month for reading. I managed to fit in quite a few books, though a lot of them were relatively short. I’m enjoying the variety of genres that the different reading challenges are nudging me to reach for. Here’s what I completed in March:

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2025 Challenges

• Goal #1. Bible Reading. I read five books in March.
  • Deuteronomy
  • Joshua
  • Judges
  • Ruth
  • Luke
• Goal #2. Biblical Studies Challenge. March topic: Missions.
  • Something Needs to Change by David Platt
• Goal #3. Book Journal Challenge.
  • Behold a White Horse by Mark Goodwin (set in a dystopian future)
  • The Three Investigators: Mystery of the Whispering Mummy by Robert Arthur (written the year I was born — and first read many years ago when I was in the target age range)
  • Grace in Strange Disguise by Christine Dillon (written by someone on a different continent)
  • Happy Lies: How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard Of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World by Melissa Dougherty (about religion or spirituality)
  • The Crimson Cruiser by Mildred A. Wirt (set in a time period I would like to visit)
  • Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (set in a country I would like to visit — free on Project Gutenberg: ebook here and audiobook here)
• Goal #4. Posted Book Reviews.
  • The Curator’s Secret by Denise Weimer
  • Written in Secret by Crystal Caudill
  • A Time of Proving by Alena Mentink
• Goal #5. Read My Shelf Challenge. March topic: Time.
  • Time of the Singing of Birds by Grace Livingston Hill (review coming soon)
• Goal #6. What the Dickens Book Club
  • Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott (free on Project Gutenberg: ebook here and audiobook here)

March Mood Reading

• The Trail by Sallie Lee Bell (vintage Christian romance)
• Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix (middle grade sci-fi)
• Hank the Cowdog: The Case of the Lost Camp by John R. Erickson (fun audiobook for a short day trip)
• Moongarden by Michelle A. Barry (middle grade sci-fi, retelling of The Secret Garden)
• All Men Are Liars by Marline Williams (“Jesus Revolution” romance novel set in 1973)
• I Was Never Poor: Autobiography of Jimmy Newton Walker 1924-2010 (This is a relative of some of my relatives, so it was interesting to me.)

Book Mail

• A Time of Proving by Alena Mentink (reviewed this month)
• Telling the Gospel Through Story by Christine Dillon (looking forward to reading this one as my “gospel” themed book for the Biblical Studies challenge in April)
• An Unexpected Companion by Mindy Obenhaus (Rebecca loves these K-9 Love Inspired books so she’ll be reading this one)

Book Haul

March’s library book sale garnered me a stack of Little Golden books, three Georgette Heyer novels, a handful of Betty Neels romance novels, interesting editions of The Pilgrim’s Progress and Anne of Green Gables, plus the following from favorite authors:

• A Heart Most Worthy by Siri Mitchell
• The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers
• A Midnight Clear by Katherine Paterson

What have you been reading lately? Any of these titles?