April Reading!⛈️🌬️📚

[adelbert]

It's April! Spring is coming and lots of new books are being released. How was March for your reading? What are you looking forward to reading in April?

Also for everyone with Amazon Prime I highly recommend the movie, American Fiction. It's got some great points about African American literature and how it's perceived but it's also just a very good movie with some nice humor as well. H and I really enjoyed it.

[adelbert]

I read 9 books in March. I started the Oddjobs series which is pretty weird but I really enjoy and I have two books left in that series which I'm looking forward to reading this month. My other favorites were The Last Murder at the End of the World which is by the same author who wrote The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle but I enjoyed this one much more. And The Anxious Generation was also a favorite although it was more scary/depressing in terms of social media and its serious effects on children but it motivated me to be even more strict with my kids and to stop making so many exceptions even though it makes them angry.

March was a good reading month for me.

[marygracerich]

March was a slower month for me which is fine. I think I only finished like 2 or 3 books. I’m not really worried because I am already way ahead of my usual reading schedule.

I am currently reading Empire of the Vampire. It’s taking me some time but I am eager to get through it. I have some other books on deck that I am pretty excited about.

[mathrun]

March was pretty good with 18. Although some of that speed was forced on me by a bunch of holds coming at once. I had a couple 4.5 and 5 stars, which was nice.

The Traitor 3.5⭐️
The Prophet 2⭐️
Lincoln in the Bardo 2⭐️
The House in the Pines 3⭐️
Rebecca 3.5⭐️
House of Flame and Shadow 5⭐️
Murder Road 3.5⭐️
End of Story 3.5⭐️
Interesting Facts About Space 4.5⭐️
A Grave Robbery 4.5⭐️
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur 3⭐️
The Helsinki Affair 4⭐️
Supercommunicators 3.5⭐️
All Systems Red 5⭐️
The Frozen River 5⭐️
The One and Only Ivan 4.5⭐️
The Family Upstairs 3.5⭐️
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 3.5⭐️

In April I’m looking forward to The Great Divide, the new Rebecca Serle, and hopefully a couple more in the MurderBot series.

[caer]

March was good! I read 10 books. The highlights were Nightwatching and The Longest Race but I enjoyed most of the others.

April is absolutely filled with books I’m looking forward to:
- Old Flames and New Fortunes by Sarah Hogle
-She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubrica
- For Worse by L.K. Bowen
- Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda
- The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphic Nova Glass
- How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
- The Gathering by CJ Tutor
- You Know What You Did by KT Nguyen
- One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole
- Funny Story by Emily Henry
- Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
- Happy Medium by Sarah Adler

[abs]

March was pretty good! I read a lot more than I did in January/February. I mostly enjoyed everything.

Listen For the Lie—4.5 stars
Jar of Hearts—4 stars
Little Lies—3.5 stars
The True Love Experiment—3.5 stars
Saving Noah—3.5 stars
The Paris Daughter—3.5 stars

For April I’m looking forward to She’s Not Sorry, Darling Girls, The Vacancy in Room 10, The House on Biscayne Street, Funny Story, and Just For the Summer. So many this month and May looks great, too!! Makes up for nearly nothing in March.

[sudsy]

I had a crappy March. All 3 stars, nothing great. Last night I finished The Missing Hours which was a Blind Date With A Book I received. It started out great and I powered through the first 100+ pages in a day, but man did the ending half suck. I need something good this month.

[nelzie]

March was pretty decent. Favorites were This Could Be Us and The Night Parade

[nelzie]

April is so stacked with new releases I'm looking forward to!

April 1
The Hollow by Kiersten Modglin

April 2
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
How to Plot a Payback by Melissa Ferguson
She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
Only and Forever by Chloe Liese

April 9
Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda
The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass
The Gathering by C J Tudor
Ghost Station by S A Barnes
Lost to Dune Road by Kara Thomas
How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
A Better World by Sarah Langan

April 16
You Know What You Did by K T Nguyen
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole
When I Think of You by Myah Ariel

April 23
Old Flames and New Fortunes by Sarah Hogle
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Redemption of Morgan Bright by Chris Panatier
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall

April 30
Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur
Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett

[angelashly]

March was just ok for me. I think everything is 3 stars

Good girl bad blood
Little Mercies
Listen for the lie
Bye, baby
Murder road

I have a bunch coming out in April I’m excited for and it’s my birthday month so I’m happy both Darling Girls and just for the summer are BOTM picks!

[angelashly]

I’m excited for my BOTM box for 2 months in a row.

I did:
Just for the summer
Darling girls
Daughter of mine

[dc2london]

March was a bit slow for me in terms of finishing books. Lots of great reads but juat really busy. My favorites were Yellowface and As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow.
I am in the middle of All the Little Raindrops and it is WILD (all the CWs, for real). I can't decide whether I hate it or if it's just too scary.

[cnf]

I only finished 9 books in March. Slow month for me.

Bride
Absolutely Not In Love
The Fifth Season
A Groom Of One's Own
My Lucky Charm
The Obelisk Gate
The Fall Back Plan
Faking It With The Grump
Academically Yours

I should have the third and final book in the broken earth series done today or tomorrow. Those books have been very slow read for me, with the made up language, and world building being hard to wrap my brain around visually, I've been reading slowly and rereading a bit as I go too.

There's quite a bit I'm looking forward to this month, so hopefully I can read a bit faster.

[willow]

I read 8 books in March.



My favorites were The Warmth of Other Suns and The Lost Letters of Aisling. I really enjoyed the first Crescent City book as well.

[Rusty Red]

Definitely not going to hit my 175 books goal this year, I'm slacking. Only 8 books for March, but to be fair, two were The Empyrean series, so long.

Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
Calculated in Death, J.D. Robb
Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
Born of Night, Sherrilyn Kenyon
A Touch of Dead, CH
Iron Flame, RY
Eleven on Top, Janet Evanovich

[emma]

March was an ok month for me. I feel like nothing really grabbed me and i read slower than usual but everything was decent. I finished 7 books, i did start The Hunting Party on audio but only got 25% in before the load expired.
The Chaos Agent (Gray Man 13) - 4 stars
Neon Gods - 4 stars
The Burnout - 3 stars
Bride - 4 stars
Agent of Chaos - 3 stars
Golden Son (Red Rising 2) - 4 stars
A Fate Inked in Blood - 4 stars

I'm going to start Morning Star (Red Rising 3) today and I started City of Brass on audio over the weekend but only got an hour or so in.

[clairefraser]

I finished 5 books in the month of March, would have been more but I had a book hangover after reading The Women and went 1.5 weeks without reading.

The Paris Apartment - 3 stars
Finlay Donovan is Killing It - 3.5 stars
The Women - 5 stars
Fourth Wing - 5 stars
Iron Flame - 4 stars

My brain really wanted me to immediately read Fourth Wing. Then I need to read my BOTM books from last month: Annie Bot, Anita de Monte Laughs Last, Lessons in Chemistry. Then I'll start the ACOTAR series.

[junch817]

I have really dropped the ball with reading this year. January through March is typically my best time of the year, but not this year. I’ve been on my phone and I’ve been busy watching Australian Survivior 3 nights a week, on Twitter afterwards, and sucked into the Kate Middleton rabbit hole. I really hope to get better this month, but who knows. I also randomly decided to watch Dawsons Creek last week 💁🏻‍♀️🫠 I’ve never actually seen it, and I came across another amazing story James Van Der Beek shared on SM and I decided after 25 years, I wanted to actually watch the series (even though I basically known the story already). So yeah, I’m thinking that’s not going to help my reading either 😂

In March I read

The Five Star Weekend (book club pick)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Book Girls Guide Decades Challenge 1920s)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Books Girls Guide ICYMI 2014, and Buzzword - Characters Name)

My other online book club pick was Meredith, Alone, but I had read that one over a year ago. I had been excited to have the chance to get to read a pick up my own in its place, but that didn’t really happen. Last year I read 7 books in March, and in 2022 I read 11. Oh well.

[junch817]

dc2london, I think it was you that recently recommended As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow and reminded me that I wanted to read that. Well it came up as a members favorite this month for BOTM so I think I’m going to go with that 🙂

[dc2london]

Apr 1, 2024 10:55:51 GMT -6 junch817 said:

dc2london, I think it was you that recently recommended As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow and reminded me that I wanted to read that. Well it came up as a members favorite this month for BOTM so I think I’m going to go with that 🙂

You will love it, and it will destroy you <3 such a great book

[CurlieWhirlie]

I read Starter Villain by John Scalzi last week and it was quick and fun.

[sudsy]

Has anyone read Black Cake? My boss gave it glowing reviews but it’s like a bazillion month hold at my library. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth just buying it.

[angelashly]

Apr 1, 2024 11:52:21 GMT -6 sudsy said:

Has anyone read Black Cake? My boss gave it glowing reviews but it’s like a bazillion month hold at my library. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth just buying it.

I haven’t read it yet because of library holds but I did buy it for myself because of the reviews. It’s on my summer read list when I do a lot of sitting on the deck reading

[wedding]

I read 23 books. Some really great and some not.

[melohdy]

I haven't felt motivated to read lately. I bring my book all around the house with me and then find myself mindlessly scrolling instead of opening it. I finished 3 in March:

Punk 57 by Penelope Douglass - 3 stars - I liked the tension and the spice was pretty good, but I really don't love when they're in high school (even if they're 18)
You'll Never Know I'm Here by Kiersten Mogdlin - 2 stars - I think someone else here liked it a lot and that's why I picked it up. I just don't think it was for me
Bride by Ali Hazelwood - 3 stars - It was a fun ride. I enjoyed the relationship between the two main characters

[melohdy]

Apr 1, 2024 11:52:21 GMT -6 sudsy said:

Has anyone read Black Cake? My boss gave it glowing reviews but it’s like a bazillion month hold at my library. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth just buying it.

I read it and remember enjoying it. I rated it 4 stars. 

[thatgolfb]

I read 8 books in March, a little below average, but I made it through half of A Covenant of Water which was the length of a regular sized book, so whatever.


My favorite was Behind Every Good Man, Sara Goodman Confino’s new book (an ARC, comes out August 6). The Women was a close second.

Radium Girls was also great. The blank one is another ARC called Friends with Secrets by Christine Gunderson. It was a fun Finley Donovan-esque drama/thriller.

I’m currently listening to The Risk (Mindf*ck series number 1), and reading The Heiress on Kindle (loving it, almost done).

I haven’t picked up The Island of Sea Women in a while, and I may just return it. I think I’m not quite in the mood for it?

On deck I have One by One by Frieda McFadden. I’m a bit confused about this because I got it as an ARC, but it was originally released in 2020. It looks like a re-release 2024- can someone that reads ARCs regularly explain? imapenguin. I have only just started requesting on NetGalley and I tried Googling to no avail. I did just get accepted for the ARC of Lucy Foley’s newest, A Midnight Feast, so that’s cool.

[thatgolfb]

Apr 1, 2024 11:52:21 GMT -6 sudsy said:

Has anyone read Black Cake? My boss gave it glowing reviews but it’s like a bazillion month hold at my library. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth just buying it.

I loved Black Cake!

[junch817]

I earned a free Aardvark add on this month, so I’m trying to decide what to pick. I think I definitely want James by Percival Everett as my main pick, because the reviews look awesome and people that have already read it on FB seemed to love it, but I can’t decide on my add on. I’m either going to choose Diavola by Jennifer Thorne or How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin.

[imapenguin]

thatgolfb, if it’s a rerelease publishers will often do that to try to create buzz. Did you request it or did they send a widget to your email?