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Chandler's avatar

Yes! Pulling out I Capture the Castle for this exact reason ❤️

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Beth Brower's avatar

I Capture the Castle was discovered about seven Marches ago! It was a March read and PERFECT.

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Amanda Harper Brimley's avatar

Ah. I just finished reading it and got on here expressly to recommend it. I Capture the Castle fits exactly.

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Rachel Peckham's avatar

Keeper of the Bees!

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Julie Acomb's avatar

I keep Emma Lion books by my bed so I can flip to a page and read my favorite parts before bed.

Honestly, I appreciate the book recommendations in the comments because I’ve been having trouble finding anything I love to read as much as Beth Brower. :)

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Marinda Misra's avatar

Just out of curiosity- are you going to Storymakers?

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Beth Brower's avatar

I will be speaking there next year.

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Aubrey Stewart's avatar

Hope and sadness is the perfect way to describe it. I want something with a happy wistfulness. Something that makes me cry but at the end pulls me from the despair with a hope filled ending.

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Angie Ballard's avatar

I love this question.

I just pulled Heyer's Venetia from the shelf to reread so March must mean I long for word play that keeps me on my toes, a chuckle that is more gargle, a light sprinkling of a poet, and hope that dispels both loneliness and despair.

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Jill Hamblin's avatar

Yes! Heyer’s The Grand Sophy and Arabella were just the right books for me last week. The spark and play and details worked so well.

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Laura and Emily's avatar

I love Heyer! Probably time for me to re-read one as well.

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Nancy Michaelis's avatar

Emma Lion’s Unselected journals hit many of the high notes I needed for the end of February and beginning of March: a chance to laugh out loud, characters I enjoyed spending time with, selective quotes and points to ponder, revisiting some favorite authors , especially poets, and simply leaving 2025 behind for a bit.

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Jill Hamblin's avatar

It feels almost too straightforward or impossible, but the Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary have these for me. She writes childhood from a lens I loved then and still do: flawed, real, hopeful, full.

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Jeannette Wilding's avatar

At my age I’m afraid there’s too many books and not much time! I enjoy seasonal books for the winter.

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Louisa Stinger's avatar

West with the night

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Paige DePlume's avatar

Georgette Heyer! Good for all seasons, but particularly March. Innocence meets dramatic humor wrapped in a happy ending.

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Laura and Emily's avatar

Enchanted April (which I suppose could be read a month early) seems to fit the bill. I’d like to know what other books qualify for March Books?

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Annie Bentley Waddoups's avatar

I recently read Niall Williams's This Is Happiness and that checked all those boxes. Recommend!

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SUSIE DAVIS's avatar

Love the diaries!! More please!❤️

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Jillian's avatar

I just finished reading The Beast of Ten for the first time. Thank you. I cried and rejoiced and plunged so deep and then felt so full of the light. Light, not lightness, but the weightiness of true piercing Light, and the birth of spring. We are heading into winter in Cape Town, so March reads are different here, but I remember the feeling of March turning that perfect corner to Spring. It does require a specific book, to be sure.

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Viki's avatar

Hi Beth , please can you tell me if the Emma M Lions journals are available on audio ? I am registered blind & would love to listen to them ? Thanks xxx

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Louisa Stinger's avatar

Everything sad is untrue.

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