April TBR Pile (19/21):

1. Bookworms BC: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden ✓

2. Friend BC: Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave ✓

3. Friend BC: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon ✓

4. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: NONE

5. Kid Read Aloud: Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston ✓

6. Kid Read Aloud: Men at Arms by Terry Prachett ✓

7. Kid Read Aloud: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White ✓

8. Kid Read Aloud: Much Ado About Baseball by Rajani LaRocca

9. Kid Book Club: Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr ✓

10. Fantasy: A Tale Dark and Grim by Adam Gidwitz ✓

11. Fantasy: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman ✓

12. Horror: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White ✓

13. Horror: Empty Smiles by Katherine Arden ✓

14. Horror: Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham ✓

15. Comics: Lore Olympus Vol. 5 ✓

16. Romance: To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt ✓

17. Romance: The Takeover by TL Swan ✓

18. Romance: To Seduce a Sinner by Elizabeth Hoyt ✓

19. SciFi: Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley ✓

20. SciFi: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler ✓

21. Nonfiction: The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 6360 pages
Pages Remaining: 242,952 pages

Current Read - Unmasking Autism by Devon Price: To Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (2): I grabbed two selections from Book of the Month, Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez and A Short Walk Through a Wild World by Douglas Westerbeke.

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 330

• Books Read: 3

• Books Acquired: 2

• Books Unshelved: 0

• Finishing Number: 229

May TBR Pile: Starting with a small TBR for this coming month. I’m certain it will explode soon…

1. Bookworms BC: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

2. Friend BC: The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

4. Kid Read Aloud: Much Ado About Baseball by Rajani LaRocca

5. Kid Read Aloud: Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

6. Kid Book Club: We Dream of Space by Erin Estrada Kelly

7. Fantasy: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall

8. Romance: To Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt

9. Nonfiction: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

Movies Watched

• Steve! (Martin)

• How I Became a Superheo

• Baby Assasins 2

• Hundreds of Beavers

• Dune Part 2

TV Shows Watched

• Shögun

• Below Deck

• A Gentleman in Moscow

• Loot S2

• Twisted Metal S1

• Fallout S1

• The Great Pottery Throw Down S2

• Dinner with the Parents S1

• Dead Boy Detectives S1

Comments - A slightly slower reading month like I predicted. With all the school activities and home chores, my reading was going to slow down no matter what I did. But I still have a very strong reading month. We also watched a few good movies/documentaries and started some new television series. Great month overall!

Next up on the TBR pile: