What did you read in April

[ufcasey]

What books did you finish reading in April, and how did you rate them out of 5 stars? Any stand out favorites you would recommend?

[abs]

I read more books this month than I have in a loonnng time. Most were enjoyable! I was on a YA kick which is an easy way to get more books in.

It's Not Summer Without You- 4*
We'll Always Have Summer- 4*
Dreamland 3*- (much heavier than I expected it to be)
Forever, Interrupted 3.5*- (good writing, hard to read story)
Maybe in Another Life- 4.5*
The One Real Thing- 3*
Every Little Thing- DNF.

I read most of these in the first few weeks of April. Now I have a bunch of holds that should come in soon and I don't know what to read while I'm waiting!

[sarahswim]

I read in April:
Sweetbitter (Stephanie Danler)***
Words on Bathroom Walls (Julia Walton)****
There, There (Tommy Orange)***
Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)****
Tear Me Apart (JT Ellison)***
Among the Brave (Margaret Peterson Haddix)**

[meowmaps]

Our House by Louise Candlish 4*
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 4*
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro 4*
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn 4*
Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson 3*
No Exit by Taylor Adams 1*
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley 4*

[susiebw]

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe: 5 stars

Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah: 4 stars

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan: 4 stars

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green: 5 stars

[travella]

3*
There, There by Tommy Orange (It would have been higher, but the ending ruined it.)

The Women in the Castle, by Jessica Shattuck

2*
Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Feather Thief by Kirk Johnson (I liked this book, but I feel like his investigation into the theft for this book ruined any criminal prosecution that could have been brought against the individuals involved. So I finished the book highly annoyed.)

[estrellita]

Harry Potter #2 ****
Harry Potter #3 *****
True West **
^all audiobooks

Circe *****

[msmerymac]

I guess I only finished 3.

Sharp Objects - I'm so torn on all Gillian Flynn books. I like it, but then I realize I didn't love it?
The Remains of the Day - ****
Hit So Hard - ***

[spedrunner]

Jar of Hearts

by Jennifer Hillier 4 stars *


One of Us Is Lying

McManus, Karen : 2 stars*


All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Greenwood, Bryn *
4 stars

November 9

Hoover, Colleen *
4 stars

Something in the Water

Steadman, Catherine
   3 stars

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

Jackson, Joshilyn *2 stars

[tacokick]

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young ****

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams ****

Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now so I Can Correct it? by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast ****

Good Talk: A Memoir in Coversations by Mira Jacobs ***1/2

As Long as We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney ***

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal ***

When I was White by Sarah Valentine ***

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer **1/2

Too Much is Not Enough by Andrew Rannells ****

Sex Object by Jessica Valenti **1/2

Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell **1/2 (I didn’t love the historical parts)

Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah and Winne Yeung ***

Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business by Ted and Matt Lee ***

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Phillipe ****

All the Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai ***

A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary ****

Not a bad month! Two graphic novels, a couple of YA which is unusual for me. Lots of memoirs.

[wesleycrusher]

4 stars
-Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
-There There by Tommy Orange
-The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston
-Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story by Frederik Peeters (graphic memoir)
-Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
-The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (audio)
-Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
-The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes

3 stars
-Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
-Hope Never Dies (Obama Biden Mysteries #1) by Andrew Shaffer (audio)
-Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley (audio)
-Wildcard (Warcross, #2) by Marie Lu
-Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss (audio)
-A Song for the Stars by Ilima Todd

2 stars
-Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer (I've seen the paperback version of this book at 2 different book stores recently and honestly it was awful)
-The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

[Vespasia]

I only finished 3 books in April but I really enjoyed all of them!


The Seven 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (favorite of the month)
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2) by V.E. Schwab

[ufcasey]

2 stars
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
The Night Before by Wendy Walker

3 stars
Wayfarer's Keep (The Broken Lands, #3) by T.A. White
Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen
Nightingale (The Twelve Systems Chronicles #6) by E.G. Manetti
Spirit Witch (The Lazy Girl's Guide To Magic #3) by Helen Harper
Transcendence by Shay Savage
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

3.5 stars
Falling Into Bed with a Duke by Lorraine Heath
Rapture in Death (In Death, #4) by J.D. Robb

4 stars
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Bond Proof (The Twelve Systems Chronicles #7) by E.G. Manetti
What I Did For a Duke by Julie Anne Long

4.5 stars
Rules of Redemption by T.A. White
Intercepted by Alexa Martin

[litskispeciality]

I only finished "When", it was good, but def a trigger warning to those with parents/family with alcohol addiction. I think that's why it took longer to read. 

I got halfway through To All the Boys I've Loved Before by the end of April, just finished last night.

I started Children of Blood and Bone, but couldn't get into it before it expired.

I started The Miseducation of Cameron Post - hope to finish it later, loan ran out.

I'm at 7/24, hoping May is really good.

spedrunner - I just started Nov 9th last night, I hope it's good, so far it has my interest 18 pages in.

[mrspez07]

5* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Audio and physical book, listened with my family, it’s a great evening activity.

3* My American Duchess - physical book

3* I’ll be Gone in the Dark - Audio

3* The Witch elm - physical book

4* The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - physical book

4* A Rule Against Murder - audio