Read With Keri: Books I Read in March

It happened, guys.

I fell into a book slump in March. It was bound to happen eventually, and I’m not proud of it.

I only read three books, which is still good, I guess, but not great. You win some, you lose some. Here are the books I read in March.

{ONE} Sisters First: Stories From Our Wild and Wonderful Life — Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush (3/5 stars)

Narrated by twin sisters Jenna and Barbara Bush, this book details their life growing up as White House kids. I appreciated their honesty and loved hearing stories of their family life “behind the curtain.” Some of it felt impersonal or too scripted (they both narrate the audiobook) but it was an easy read and interesting to hear their different perspectives about growing up and life after the presidency.

{TWO} The Wartime Sisters — Lynda Cohen Loigman (2/5 stars)

I’m sorry to say it, but this book put me in a reading slump. I just couldn’t get into it and hoped it would get better. I wanted to love this but it missed the mark for me. It’s set in World War 2 and about two sisters’ strained relationship and how they grow closer after conflict. The writing felt amateur and the characters were not likable in my opinion. I should have DNF’d it (‘did not finish’) but powered through anyways.

{THREE} The Woman in Me — Britney Spears (4/5)

The Woman in Me became available in my Libby app after waiting 14ish weeks for it. I feel like this would be hard to read as a physical book, but as an audiobook, it felt conversational and relaxed. Britney does not narrate it, but the narrator does a great job at keeping your interest. I know there are some mixed opinions about this book, but I really enjoyed it. Her story is unbelievably sad and she’s gone through a LOT of abuse. I didn’t grow up listening to Britney Spears and went into this memoir knowing next to nothing about her. There are two sides to every story, but her side is heartbreaking. I respect what she has endured and suspect she’ll go through a lot of therapy and healing in the years to come to help her through the trauma.