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I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm recapping the books I read in March.

I read a lot of books. I did not realize how many books I read this month.

In part, you will discover that I read a lot of books in preparation for our spring literary lunch.

So if you missed that event, this is a seasonal event we hosted the bookshelf.

We used to host it in person. Now we host it virtually. I'm hoping this fall we can do both.

But this is a virtual event where I discussed my favorite upcoming titles of the necessary season or the appropriate season.

So this past, I guess two weeks ago, we had a conversation about my favorite spring titles.

So a lot of the reading I did in March was in preparation for that event.

If you missed it, you can actually still buy tickets and all it means is that you're watching a pre-recorded video rather than life.

But it's still, I hope, valuable information.

And if you are just dying to know what books our staff is looking forward to in the next couple of months, basically it covers March to May.

I would encourage you to snag tickets on the website so that you can get access to that video.

Otherwise, I'll be talking about some of the titles that I read in preparation for that event on today's episode.

So I really feel like I should just go ahead and dive in because I read 12 books this month, which means we've got a lot of territory to cover.

So without further ado, the first book that I read and honestly I finished this one late February, but it was too late to feature on last month's reading recap.

So I technically finished it in February, but we're going to count it for March, early morning riser by Catherine Haney.

I love this book. I love Catherine Haney. You know what?

I really, her name may be Catherine Haney. I am not 100% sure, which is a shame because I have been reading her books a long time.

I first read her short story collections, single carefree and mellow, which I loved. If you're a short story fan, I highly recommend that collection.

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