In a nutshell: March 2026

Life updates, AYN Thor, Trine, Peak, Project Hail Mary

Life updates

Work has been incredibly busy these days, but I’m proud that I could publish 4 whole posts in March. I was also intending to publish this one earlier, but the last part of March was too chaotic for me, so I had no time to write. It also coincided with the Semana Santa/Holy Week, which people in Spain take very seriously. There were a lot of processions in the week leading up to Easter, where religious brotherhoods carry pasos to the Cathedral and back. An incredible tradition to watch, and we went to watch as much as we could.

There were so many processions, this is just a couple of them

Because my life became a little bit more hectic than I imagined, I didn’t have much time to play more Baldur’s Gate 3. But I’m enjoying what little time I can spare for it, and wrote all my first impressions on it in a previous post — beware of spoilers though, I don’t really hold back in that post!

My Baldur's Gate 3 Experience | Part 1

I’ve also been going to the gym to swim these days, and it has actually helped me feel better, both physically and mentally. Turns out exercising is good for you, who knew?

Games

AYN Thor

Not exactly a “game”, but I figured it belongs in this section. I ordered this back in February and received it very recently. I’ve been refreshing the shipment page almost obsessively, and now it’s here! I’ve been tinkering with it and so far I couldn’t have been happier. I do have my reservations about this amazing device, but I’ll go into detail in my full review of it — which should be coming out soon. But so far, I completed my Dredge playthrough on it, and completed Chants of Sennaar for the Good Game Lobby Gaming Club. Both of these games ran extremely well on the Thor. I’m trying to use the device as much as possible to get a good idea of how it is.

Dredge

This was Good Game Lobby Club’s February game, and one that I enjoyed so so much. The story, the art and the mechanics are fantastic, and the music is probably one of my favorite soundtracks ever. I’m hoping to have a full review out for this game soon. As the first game I finished on the Thor, I think it also deserves a special mention here.

Trine

I’m a big fan of the original Trine, and with my co-op squad, we’ve been playing the games from 1 through 5. We finally finished it the other day, and it has been a blast! I’m going to do a full review on this series pretty soon, but covering 5 games in one post is not as easy as I thought. But it is a great series to play with 3 people, I absolutely recommend it!

PEAK

Another game that we played with the co-op squad is PEAK, and I loved this game SO MUCH. I wrote all about it in a previous post, if you would like to check it out!

Co-op Days: PEAK

Books

Project Hail Mary

As much as I’m looking forward to watching the movie, a little pet peeve of mine is original book covers getting replaced with their movie versions. Nothing against Ryan Gosling though

I became aware of this book when Luna kindly recommended it to me in my previous In a nutshell post. I’m not sure how I managed to miss the hype of this book, but I’m always in the mood for a good sci-fi book so I immediately added it to my TBR list. Luna recommended the audiobook version, but it wasn’t available on my library so I was going to read the e-book version. But as the movie was coming out soon, the waiting time of my library was around 1 month because the queue was so long. Then Sey gave me a heads up about Audible having a trial for just 1€/month, so I decided to jump into the audiobook (and the trial was actually somehow free for me, probably because it’s my first time using it).

And I have to say that I’m REALLY enjoying the audiobook — probably more than I would if I read the e-book. Ray Porter is a fantastic narrator, and I find his storytelling to be very immersive. I listen to the audiobook while I do house chores and I keep wanting to find out more, so I keep wanting to clean the house or cook something.

So thank you Luna and Sey for the great recommendation! My house is cleaner than ever!

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1)

I started this book because I’ve been in a sci-fi mood, and this one has been in my backlog for quite some time as it has won a lot of awards. I’m currently not done with it, I think I’m about 65% in. I will say that the premise is super interesting, and it’s a good book, but it is slow. The first half of the book kind of felt like exposition after exposition, which is not always a bad thing, but it definitely slows things down. But I am determined to finish it since I’m curious as to where the story will go.

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That’s it for March! A super busy month where I didn’t even understand how time went by. We’re already done with the first week of April now, I just don’t know where time goes! But hopefully it’ll be a fun month.

How was your March?