April in Review

My Reading

# of books read: 21

Best(s):  With categories selected solely to highlight my favorites of the month
Best re-read: The Hunger Games. 
Best Graphic Novel: The Silence of Our Friends. 
Best hyped book: Turtles All the Way Down. 
Best debut: Saints and Misfits (and favorite of the month)
Funniest: Evil Librarian

Mt. TBR progress:
Well, all 21 were backlist books, so I'm KILLING IT on that one. Which is kind of why I chose that challenge--much like setting my Goodreads challenge to 52, which I passed sometime last month. SETTING MYSELF UP TO SUCCEED.

15 of them were also Library Love eligible. Because I do, I do! I love my library!

And I've read 21 of the 52 Popsugar categories. Mostly by accident. Pretty soon I'm going to have to start picking books intentionally to fit the categories.

Bookish Events and Happenings

Not much. Sorry folks. I spent a nice afternoon at a library clear across town. I didn't participate in Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon for the first time since I discovered it, and I missed out on going to see Kwame Alexander speak when he was in town. Do either of those count?

On the Blog

Also not much. I posted five times, which is two more than April, so yay! I wrote about the ridiculously specific list of things one needs to check off to be considered "normal" instead of "exotic" or "diverse," and then I wrote a sort of non-explanation of why I'm not posting very much these days.

IRL

My daughter's birthday was fun. I made her annually requested cheesecake, and this year I remembered the night before to start it BEFORE 10 pm. She had a slumber party, and they played outside until dark, then we made food-based facials and they did their nails. Twelve. Sigh.

All right, people. We're in the final count down for school, and if you haven't seen Jen Hatmaker's column on what that's like, go read that.

May the fourth be with you. (And also with you.)

My monthly summaries are always linked to the Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up on Feed Your Fiction Addiction, along with many other terrific blogs' monthly reflections.  Nicole usually puts together a fun scavenger hunt giveaway too, so go check it out!