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all the books i read in march and what i thought of them

 All the books I read in March and what I thought of them  I want to apologize to my readers because this blog post is unusually late. The problem may be that I have too much to do for school; the problem may also be that I now spend half of my free time constructing crosswords. I also want to extend my thanks to my friend Frank for bugging me to write this blog post.  I read five books this month. I have celebrated Passover 40% as many times in April as I have read a book in March. That's sort of frightening. ✨✨✨ The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My professor kindly peer-pressured me into reading Hisham Matar's entire body of work. At the time of writing, I have read half of his full-length novels and, at the rate things are going, the next one I read is going to be fantastic amazing beautiful, and the one after that is going to be literally the best book I have ever read (from my sample size of two, the quality of each book I rea