April was a busy month for me so I’ve been feeling shattered but it was a productive month so it was worth it.
My husband had two weeks holiday from work and most of our time was spent shopping for a new car, and it was harder work than I’d envisioned. Our current car is old and we got it before my disability happened so it’s really not practical for me. We’ve now chosen our new car and are awaiting a delivery date.
We then spent a lot of our time binge-watching Line of Duty (I’d seen a couple of series but he’d seen none of it so we watched from the beginning). It was stressful avoiding spoilers for the current series as we were catching up but we finally watched episode 5 of series 5 late on Sunday night so we’re up to date ready for the final episode this weekend!
Here are the books I read in April:
Chickens Eat Pasta by Clare Pedrick
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Sleep by C. L. Taylor
Baxter’s Requiem by Matthew Crow
Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry
The Ringmaster by Vanda Symon
Amazing Grace by Kim Nash
Between the Regions of Kindness by Alice Jolly
The Case of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
The Neighbour by Fiona Cummins
The Tapestry Bag by Isabella Muir
The Blame Game by C. J. Cooke
TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up and The Conspiracy by Jack Cashill
The Blue Bench by Paul Marriner
Mary’s Household Tips and Tricks by Mary Berry
April Blog Posts & Reviews:
That Was The Month That Was… March
Review of Call Me Star Girl by Louise Beech
Review of Sleep by C. L. Taylor
Review of Chickens Eat Pasta by Clare Pedrick
Review of 55 by James Delargy
This Week in Books (10 April)
Stacking the Shelves (13 April)
Review of Amazing Grace by Kim Nash
Review of The Ringmaster by Vanda Symon
This Week in Books (17 April)
Review of Baxter’s Requiem by Matthew Crow
Review of Between the Regions of Kindness by Alice Jolly
This Week in Books (24 April)
Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Samantha Henthorn, Author of Edna and Genevieve Escape From Curmudgeon Avenue (Guest Post)
The state of my TBR:
So my TBR is completely and utterly out of control again! My plan to reduce my TBR by a small number each month so that it would be 200 books smaller by the end of this year has gone awry! Given my plan I should have 2367 or fewer books on my TBR but the actual number is 2526! Ooops! I was aware that I’m accumulating books faster than I’m reading them but I didn’t realise the numbers were so far apart from each other. I think I need to have another book cull and to really think more about the books I’m buying or accepting for review. (Or accept that I’m going to have a TBR mountain that I never get to the bottom of!).
How was April for you? I hope you all had a good month and that you read lots of good books. Did you read many books? What was your favourite book of the month? Please tell me in the comments, I’d love to know. Also, if you have a blog please feel free to leave a link to your month’s wrap-up post and I’ll be sure to read and comment back. 🙂
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I’ve heard many good things about the Hate List and it definitely makes me want to push it up my TBR. It looks like you had a really busy month!
I regularly go through my TBR and get rid of books, especially review books I never asked for. I’ve managed to keep mine under 500. I can’t imagine having to deal with 2000+!
I really hope you’ll enjoy your new car! It is stressful to get one, though, isn’t it? It’s a tiring process. You had a great month of reading, too. And you’ve reminded me that I really want to read that Grisham (and just haven’t yet…).
What a great round up!!! I hope your new car gets there soon! 💕💕
You’ve been so busy, Hayley! I hope you love your new car! I loved seeing all your April reads together, and I hope you are just as happy with your reads in May. ♥️
A great month in books! The Tapestry Bag has me curious. Congrats on the new car. I hope you love it!
I hope the new car works out for you – it so important to be able to get around! You have had a wonderful reading month in April and I hope that May is every bit as successful:))
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