Good afternoon/evening (it’s so hard to keep a true track of time when it’s light until 10pm!) and welcome to an extremely late and quite long April Wrap Up. I hope you forgive the lateness, I read a lot of books in April and so it has taken me an even longer amount of time to get round to doing my wrap post! I completed the OWLs Readathon and started the Avengers Readathons in April which helped immensely. I am well on course to smash my year target of 100 books too, which is great only a third of the way through the year! It was great to read so many books ahead of May too, the Miserables May readalong was always going to slow down progress.
In April, I read 23 books, which is 6561 pages, and all of which were new reads to me.
I read 19 fiction books, 1 poetry book, and 3 non-fiction books, a mix of childrens, YA and Adult Fantasy and dystopian, memoir, science, and contemporary romance.
By Format, I read 8 Audiobooks, 8 ebooks, 2 eARCS, 2 graphic novel/illustrated and 3 Hardback.
The average rating was 4.6/5 Stars for all of the books that I read in April.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dates Read: 28 Mar 19 – 01 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year, Book Riot Read Harder
Review: Like sitting in a captivating series of lectures…read the full review here.
The Fox and The Star | Coralie Pickford-Smith
Dates Read: 01 Apr 19
Format: Illustrated
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year, Book Riot Read Harder
Giant Days Vol. 1 | John Allison, Max Sarin, and Lisa Treiman
Dates Read: 01 Apr 19
Format: Graphic Novel
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year
Stepsister | Jennifer Donnelly
Dates Read: 01 Apr 19 – 03 Apr 19
Format: eARC
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year
Review: A great example of what a good retelling can be…read the full review here.
Moon Over Soho | Ben Aaronovitch
Dates Read: 01 Apr 19 – 03 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 04 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year
Review: The book combined comedy and romance, dating and working…read the full review here.
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told | Nick Offerman and Megan Mullaly
Dates Read: 04 Apr 19 – 03 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Challenge(s):Book Riot Read Harder
Review: They were funny, as in laugh out loud funny; they were loving in a genuine…read the full review here.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | C S Lewis
Dates Read: 09 Apr 19 – 12 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Beautiful Bastard | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 13 Apr 19 – 14 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Review: Some funny exchanges, some enjoyable friendships, powerful women and powerful men…read the full review here.
Beautiful Bitch | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 14 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 2/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Review: The romantic edge it brought and the fluffiness was too stark a departure from their characters and story…read the full review here.
Beautiful Stranger | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 14 Apr 19 – 16 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Review: Two powerful voices and presences that work together in an enjoyable, respectful, and real story…read the full review here.
Beautiful Bombshell | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 16 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 2/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Review: I probably could have done without it…read the full review here.
Beautiful Player | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 17 Apr 19 – 19 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Vengeful | V E Schwab
Dates Read: 13 Apr 19 – 21 Apr 19
Format: Hardback
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year
Red, White, and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
Dates Read: 19 Apr 19 – 21 Apr 19
Format: eARC
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Review: Simply a special book that I cannot recommend highly enough…read the full review here.
Beautiful Beginning | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 21 Apr 19 – 22 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Becoming | Michelle Obama
Dates Read: 13 Apr 19 – 23 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Beautiful Beloved | Christina Lauren
Dates Read: 23 Apr 19
Format: eBook
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
The Silver Chair | C S Lewis
Dates Read: 23 Apr 19 – 24 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions | C S Lewis
Dates Read: 24 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year, Book Riot Read Harder
Guilt | Amanda Robson
Dates Read: 25 Apr 19 – 28 Apr 19
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Around the Year
Review: I think this book was alright…read the full review here.
The Mime Order | Samantha Shannon
Dates Read: 26 Apr 19 – 30 Apr 19
Format: Hardback
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Challenge(s): None
Best loved poems: A Treasury of Verse | Ana Sampson
Dates Read: 07 Apr 19 – 30 Apr 19
Format: Hardback
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Challenge(s): Book Riot Read Harder
I’ve read some great books this month, but the ‘Book of the Month’ for April is…
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
OK, so the post may have been late, but who cares because I have to say that I was so pleased with the amount of reading I did in April. Sure, I did re-read some books, but I enjoyed reading so much and managed to finish some varied books. I really found my groove with mixing genres and formats and found reading for a purpose, i.e. the readathons, really helped focus my mind and my reading efforts.
How was your April? What did you read?
Have you read any of these books? What did you think?
Holy wow you killed it in April!! Readathons help so much! Looks like you had some great reads too!
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I really did, I was super proud of myself not gonna lie 😂
Readathons really do help so much!!
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