What are you reading? {March 2026}

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Hey everyone! 📚

After starting the TV and movie thread, I thought it would be just as fun to chat about books too! I’m always curious what everyone is reading (or listening to). Whether it’s a page-turning novel, a cozy mystery, a self-help book, or an audiobook you’re enjoying on a walk or in the car - I’d love to hear about it.

So tell me… what are you currently reading this month?

Are you in the middle of a book you can’t put down? Listening to a great audiobook? Just finished something amazing that you want to recommend? Or maybe you’re working your way through a series.

Feel free to share things like:
  • Books you’re currently reading
  • Audiobooks you’re listening to
  • Recent reads you loved
  • Hidden gems more people should know about
  • Books you’re planning to start soon
If you enjoy chatting about books, don’t forget we also have the GingerScraps Book Club where members read and discuss a featured book together. It’s a really fun way to discover new books and share your thoughts with the community! You can check it out here:
GingerScraps Book Club: https://forums.gingerscraps.net/forums/hey-good-bookin-the-gingerscraps-book-club.297/

If this ends up being a fun thread, I’ll make a new one each month just like the TV thread so we can keep sharing what we’re reading and recommending new favorites to each other.

Alright book lovers… what are you reading right now? 📖✨

And one last note, if you find yourself ready to jump into the ongoing chatter thread, looking to grow some new friendships, pop into this thread: Everyday Chatting & Waffling {2026} Let's get to know each other!
 
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So for me... I'm currently reading Remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
It is our GingerScraps bookclub book for March. I'm REALLY enjoying it so far!!

I read books that I feel a little shy posting about here, LOL I do love a good spicy romance novel :)

I also love thrillers, mysteries, who done it etc. Stephen King is one of my favorite authors.

I love audio books, so a narrator can really make or break a book.

Can't wait to chat about books and add to my ever growing TBR (to be read) list!
 
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I love that book Remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. They are releasing a movie from the book in May. Sallie Field is in it. I'm so excited! Another book similar to that is "The House in the Cerulean Sea by Travis John. That is very good as well.

I mainly do audiobooks because I multitask. I can't sit down and actually read because it puts me to sleep. My friend taught me that I can get a library card and then download the app "Cloud Library" and check out audio books for free.

I was working on some of the top literary books "of all time", but took a little break from them. The older books are hard to follow sometimes.

I am currently reading a lot of Nora Roberts. Here are the books this year so far:
Under Currents
Brazen Virtue
Hideaway

If you believe in God and want a religious series, I read "One Tuesday Morning" and "Beyond Tuesday Morning" by Karen Kingsbury. It is a fictional story about the 9-11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. It's not super religious, but does talk about how faith helps them.

If you want a lot of 🌶️, "The Hunting Wives" is good. It's a good story, and then you can watch the series on a streaming platform if you want. It has a lot of difference in the plots from the book though.

If you like historical fiction, "The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel is a great book about World War II and the Nazi's. It was very good.
 
laura.dulle said:
I love that book Remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. They are releasing a movie from the book in May. Sallie Field is in it. I'm so excited! Another book similar to that is "The House in the Cerulean Sea by Travis John. That is very good as well.

I mainly do audiobooks because I multitask. I can't sit down and actually read because it puts me to sleep. My friend taught me that I can get a library card and then download the app "Cloud Library" and check out audio books for free.

I was working on some of the top literary books "of all time", but took a little break from them. The older books are hard to follow sometimes.

I am currently reading a lot of Nora Roberts. Here are the books this year so far:
Under Currents
Brazen Virtue
Hideaway

If you believe in God and want a religious series, I read "One Tuesday Morning" and "Beyond Tuesday Morning" by Karen Kingsbury. It is a fictional story about the 9-11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. It's not super religious, but does talk about how faith helps them.

If you want a lot of 🌶️, "The Hunting Wives" is good. It's a good story, and then you can watch the series on a streaming platform if you want. It has a lot of difference in the plots from the book though.

If you like historical fiction, "The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel is a great book about World War II and the Nazi's. It was very good.
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I have The House in the Cerulean Sea on my Libby app (it is a free app connected to my local library), I can't wait to be able to check it out! It has been on my TBR list for a while.

You should look into Libby, it is free and I get audiobooks all the time.
One other cool thing Libby has are a ton of free magazines. There is a scrapbooking magazine (Scrapbooking Memories) you can subscribe and look through each issue. Of course all free :)

Love all the other book suggestions, I will look into them!
 
Just finished my book club and we read "Every Conversation Counts: The 5 Habits of Human Connection That Build Extraordinary Relationships" by Riaz Meghji. From AI... It focuses on the importance of genuine human connections in an increasingly digital world. From the Amazon intro... You are one conversation away from changing your life. We all crave connection. We were never meant to live alone or communicate only in “likes” and retweets. In Every Conversation Counts, TV host and human connection keynote speaker Riaz Meghji digs deep into the dangers of isolation and loneliness, our social pandemic, that have been brought into sharp relief by the coronavirus crisis. He tackles a uniquely modern question: why are we so connected, and yet so alone—and how can we reconnect?
It was a bit "dated", IMO, but great nonetheless. Probably would have been better had we read it several years earlier... sooner after CV.
 
I'm currently re-reading Remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, and I'm waiting for the movie :) I also like romance novels, and the last one that I read it was Problematic summer romance by Ali Hazelwood, and although there are other books of hers that I have liked, and I'm waiting for The love hypothesis, a movie based on one of them, problematic summer romance was a book that I found to be the silliest, I finished to read Run for the hills by Kevin Wilson, it was an interesting book, and the book we read last month, A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon, was one of the historical fiction novels that I really enjoyed.
 
I read Remarkably Bright Creatures and love it. I am planning on re-reading it for our GS Book Club :)

I am also alternating between Winds of War by Herman Wouk and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. They sound like heavy and important reading - but I just fancied them :) I am just as likely to read a cosy mystery.

I have recently read:
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Scent of Hours, In the Midnight Rain, The Art of Inheriting Secrets and Memories of the Lost by Barbara O'Neal
The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth
and a bunch of others.

I read a lot between other things.

I am a huge Harry Potter fan. I listen to them on Audio Book. (Jim Dale and currently the Full-Cast versions). I also watch the moves over and over and over and over as background noise. I always know what is going on.

I am also listening to David Copperfield on Audio. Dickens is such a wonderful wordsmith. Sometimes I just listen to the language and don't even pay attention to the story.

My book club is about to read "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by Jesse Q Sutanto
 
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I'm a HUGE fan of audio books and listen to them during my daily work commute and while I'm out walking. Currently, I'm reading Twelve Months by Jim Butcher. This is the 18th novel in his Dresden Series.

I'm also re-listening to the "LeVar Burton Reads" pod cast. He reads a short story (usually speculative fiction) in each episode and it takes about 45 minutes, so it's perfect for when I'm out walking.
 
AJsRandom said:
I'm rereading Jane Austen's Emma, but I should be reading The Peach Thief for my in-person book club. We read Remarkably Bright Creatures last year. <3
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Ane we are reading Remarkably bright creatures in our book club, if you wish please feel free to comment about the book in this thread
I love J.Austen's books, and I have read Emma, and watching the 2 movies version too.
 
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I started to read An academic affair by Jodi McAlister, so far an interesting book, which I think it would be an excellent romantic-drama movie.
 
AJsRandom said:
I'm rereading Jane Austen's Emma, but I should be reading The Peach Thief for my in-person book club. We read Remarkably Bright Creatures last year. <3
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Hi Ane, my friend and I went through a spell where we watched modern movies based on books. We would watch an older movie that was relatively true to the book, then we would watch a modern take on it. One of those was Emma and Clueless. When you are done with Emma, watch Clueless - you will be surprised at the parallels. Of course, neither movie compares to the lovely language in the book!
 
I posted a new thread for April!
GingerScraps

Thread 'What are you reading? {SPRING 2026} April & May'

What are you reading? {SPRING 2026} April & May
I decided instead of new monthly threads, I will make new threads for watching, reading, crafting, I will post them quarterly.
So they will be
🌸 Spring: March, April, May
☀️ Summer: June, July, August
🍂 Fall (Autumn): September, October, November
❄️ Winter: December, January, February

We already did March in its own thread... so this will now be April & May. Then June I will make a thread for June, July, August.

Looking forward to chatting with you some more <3

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