{"id":85,"date":"2020-03-10T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/\/?p=85"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:12:00","slug":"march-book-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"March Book Haul!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IT IS MY BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!!!!<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Hi Readers! In case you hadn\u2019t noticed the bold font, here you go ‘ It\u2019s my birthday month! I\u2019m definitely not one of those to sulk on their birthdays because they\u2019re growing old. I definitely don\u2019t care about that (yet.) So, anyway, I\u2019m over joyous now that I will get everything from my wish list from all the people who love me! And, the best part is HALF OF MY WISH LIST IS OF BOOKS<\/span><\/b>! So, my parents gifted me FIVE BOOKS<\/span><\/b> <\/span>this birthday!!<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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After reading really pathetic books like The Rhythm Section<\/a><\/i> & House of the Sleeping Beauties<\/i>, I have firmly decided to read only PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BOOKS or CONTEMPORARY FICTION GENRE<\/span><\/b>, at least for a while. But, to keep the balance I have also bought some highly recommended books. I recently read a fantastic book ‘ ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE BY ANTHONY DOERR<\/span><\/b>, which is the 8th<\/sup> book of the year<\/span><\/b>! Check out the details of my Birthday Book Haul!<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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~~A LITTLE LIFE BY HANYA YANAGIHARA~~<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Goodreads description says-<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cWhen four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.<\/p>\n

Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he\u2019ll not only be unable to overcome\u2014but that will define his life forever.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n


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The description itself has me intrigued. I love such long books that are written across a period of time. I\u2019m definitely reading this one next! It has won a lot of awards like <\/span>Booker Prize<\/span><\/span>, <\/span>National Book Award for Fiction<\/span><\/span>, <\/span>Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction<\/span><\/span>! It has a 4.3 rating on Goodreads<\/span><\/b>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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~~THE NIGHTINGALE BY <\/span><\/b>KRISTIN HANNAH<\/span><\/b><\/span>~~<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
The Goodreads description is quite big, but it starts with this-<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cIn love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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This is a HISTORICAL FICTIONAL<\/span><\/b> <\/span>novel, which is sure the genre I have grown to love! It has got a lot of great reviews as well! It has won <\/span>Goodreads Choice Awards<\/span><\/span>in 2015! Its Goodreads rating is 4.57<\/span><\/b>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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~~THE SILENT PATIENT BY <\/span><\/b>ALEX MICHAELIDES<\/span><\/b><\/span>~~<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Goodreads description says-<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cAlicia Berenson\u2019s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London\u2019s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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This book was won <\/span>Goodreads Choice Awards Best Mystery & Thriller<\/span><\/span> in 2019! I\u2019m so intrigued to read this, especially because it\u2019s been a LONG time since I read any GOOD MYSTERY novels<\/span><\/b>! This one has been recommended a lot by few of my family & friends as well! It has a Goodreads rating of 4.07<\/span><\/b>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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~~THE BELL JAR BY <\/span><\/b>SYLVIA PLATH<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span>~~<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Goodreads description says-   <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cSylvia Plath’s shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under\u2014maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational\u2014as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar<\/i> is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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This book was published in 1963 so it sure is long overdue. I had started reading it on e-book, but I lost track of it. So now that I have the hard copy of it, I\u2019m sure I will finish it! It has a Goodreads rating of 4<\/span><\/b>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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~~THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE BY HARUKI MURAKAMI~~<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Goodreads description says-   <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cJapan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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After loving 2\/3 of Murakami\u2019s books, it is safe to say that I am a fan! This book is highly reviewed & now that I\u2019m a Murakami fan, I\u2019m definitely plan on reading ALL OF HIS BOOKS<\/span><\/b>! Also, by reading this one I can check off the item \u2018A book published in the year I was born\u2019 from my Reading Challenge<\/span><\/b>!<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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So! How great is this? I sincerely hope to like at least 3 of these 5 books. As for my TBR, it keeps growing! Apart from the above books, some of the books I will read soon include Delia Owens\u2019 Where the Crawdads Sing, Jeffrey Eugenides\u2019 Middlesex, Guzel Yakhina\u2019s Zuleikha, Marilynne Robinson\u2019s Gilead. The list doesn\u2019t end here or it doesn\u2019t really end. Period! But, I know I am on the right track when it comes to my Reading Challenge! I have a good feeling that I will be able to read 52 Books this year!<\/span><\/div>\n
Here\u2019s to my birthday month & here\u2019s to a lot of reading!!<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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IT IS MY BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!!!! Hi Readers! In case you hadn\u2019t noticed the bold font, here you go ‘ It\u2019s my birthday month! I\u2019m definitely not one of those to sulk on their birthdays because they\u2019re growing old. I definitely don\u2019t care about that (yet.) So, anyway, I\u2019m over joyous now that I will get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4097,"url":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=4097","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":0},"title":"March 2025 Recap!","author":"Aishwarya Shenolikar","date":"March 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi Readers! 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