One more week down, again a very busy week in work but thankfully with far less worries. Life My last couple of months were very busy with work, since I started a new project. While there's more coming up over the next few weeks, I am also hoping that maybe I have passed the point where it stops being a part of every waking moment and allow me to be able to read without interrupting thoughts fluttering around in my head. We'll see. We got enough snow yesterday for the kids to be able to play and make a snow man. All the snow melted by noon but we are getting more overnight so hopefully there's more snow fun to be had. Reading After not being able to stay with a book long enough to be pulled into it for the past couple of weeks, I was desperately looking for a book that was both a fast read and also one that I would love. That was a high bar to meet even under the best of circumstances, but luckily, yesterday morning, I found just the book. I devoured Meichi Ng's Bare
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (Reread - 4 cocktails)
- The Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark (3 cocktails)
- April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers by Roland Lazenby (5 cocktails)
- Columbine by Dave Cullen (5 cocktails : WOW!)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Reread - 5 cocktails)
- The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice (3 cocktails)
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (4 cocktails)
- Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden (4 cocktails)
- A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks (3 cocktails)
- Push by Sapphire (5 cocktails)
Challenge Progress
Challenges completed: 0/12
- 100+ Reading Challenge: 34/100
- Awesome Author Challenge: 1/10
- Support your Local Library Challenge: 18/50
- Flashback Reading Challenge: 5/9
- Audio Book Challenge: 3/12
- 451 Challenge: 1/7
- Women Unbound Challenge: 2/5
- A to Z Challenge: 32/52
- Original TBR Challenge: 4/12
- What's in a name? 3 Challenge: 1/6
- Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge: 3/10
- POC Challenge: 4/10
April Stats
Number of books: 10
Number of pages read: 2664
Number of Audio Books: 1
Hours listened to (completed audio books only): 10 hours, 44 minutes
Re-reads: 2
New-to-me authors: 7
Male authors: 3
Female authors: 7
Book cleared from my physical shelf: 3
Books added to my physical shelf: 8
Number of books added anew to my TBR this month: 115
Ratings
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Comments
I agree with the wow! for Columbine - the back of the book says 'in the tradition of Truman Capote' and its definitely the best true crime I've read since In Cold Blood many years ago.
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Kathy, Push had a huge impact on me. The situations of those various girls were so well written that I seriously want to do something for them.
Emidy, thanks! :)
Stephanie, you will love Push! You should read it!
Helen, I'm dumbfounded too! :P
Sheila, you will LOVE it!! Can't wait to read your review!