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April Reading Wrap-Up and May Reading Plans

April was an unexpectedly busy month. I was supposed to be focused on editing the Modern Fae novella that I’m publishing in June, but all I wanted to do was read. My creative brain was hungry, and it devoured seven books this month! Yikes!

Seven books!

Here’s what I read in April:

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells — Murderbot helps solve a murder mystery? What could possibly be better than that? I love Murderbot, and this novella did not disappoint. Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett — ...

March Reading Wrap-up and Q1 Goal Check-in

I read four books in March. Two were tomes (> 500 pages), but only one of those was actually during Tome Topple. I read a super hyped new release. I finished reading a writing craft book that I have been reading on and off since January, and I did a whole lot of critique / beta reading for fellow writers. Not bad for one month.

Here’s what I read (that I can tell you about) in March:

Story Genius by Lisa Cron — I have been recommending this book to all my writer friends. It’s exactly t...

Setting up April in my Reading Journal

Over the weekend, I got out my markers and my washi to make a new spread in my reading journal for the upcoming month. I decided to go with a “spring” theme for April. As you can see from the photo below, things got a little busy and chaotic on the page. It’s not my favorite of the spreads I’ve done so far, but I like it well enough.

Just a cover page and a list to fill in with books read in April.

The biggest change for this month is that I’m not making a TBR for April. I’ve been feeling ...

My (Belated) Tome Topple TBR

This round of Tome Topple is already in progress. It started on the 15th of March and goes through the 28th of March. (If you are unfamiliar with Tome Topple, you can find out more information here.)

I have every intention of participating, and I had this whole blog post drafted and ready to go, talking about my TBR. Then, as it has a tendency to do, life happened. I still plan to participate in this round of Tome Topple, but as I posted over on Instagram, my TBR for this round is down to one...

February reading wrap-up

The shortest month of the year is over. I wish I had something more interesting to say about the past month, but…meh. We’ve been living with this pandemic and staying at home for a year now. I’m getting a little sick of it, and I’m not going to qualify for a vaccine anytime soon. So, I mostly have more staying at home to look forward to. At least I have good books to read and plenty of ideas for stories I want to write.

I may have gone a bit overboard with the hearts…

Here’s what I read in...

March Reading Journal Set-up and TBR

The reading journal experiment continues! This month I couldn’t find anything I wanted to use to decorate my cover page. I was going to go with a shamrock and/or rainbow and pot of gold theme in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, but my rainbow turned into a shooting star after I remembered that I had this Pacific green stars and moon washi tape in my stash. I decided to go with a green and purple star-studded theme instead. Here’s how it turned out…

My niblings could probably draw a better shootin...

January Reading Wrap-Up

I read four books in January, two that I really enjoyed and two that were good but not as good as I’d hoped they’d be. Can you guess which are which?

The January Outbox page in my reading journal…

Here’s what I read in January:

Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas — I love these characters and this story world so much. This was easily my favorite book I read in January. There’s not much I can say here without spoiling earlier books in the series, so I’m probably going to leave it at t...

Setting up for February in my Reading Journal

Well the reading journal is still alive and kicking at the end of January. So I made my cover page for February and pasted in my TBR for this month.

It’s very colorful.

The books I’m planning to read this month are:

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots — This is our “Camp Book Club” pick for this month because we all liked the premise which is supposed to be a different take on the standard superhero story. The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull — This is the group read for the sci-fi and fantasy sec...

2020 Reading — All The Numbers

We are several weeks into the new year, but those weeks have been rather…eventful. Perhaps that’s why it’s taken a bit longer than usual for me to complete my 2020 reading wrap-up? Or maybe it’s because I just haven’t been that excited about sharing my reading stats and goals recap?

I think the ongoing pandemic plus the frustrating political situation (in the U.S.) has been taking its toll on me (like it has on everyone). Most days it feels like: “reading goals? who cares. what’s the point?” ...

December Reading Wrap-Up

I’m going to keep this post short because I’m working on my end of the year wrap-up with all my reading stats and whatnot. But before I can post that one, let’s recap what I read and bought in the final month of 2020.

Outbox

I read four books in December. They were:

Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner — I already posted about how this was one of my top five reads of 2020. This was an excellent end to a series that I love. I really hope, based on the ending of this book, that ...