April 2019 Recap (Hello Overtime, Goodbye Reading Time)

Posted May 2, 2019 by Sammie in monthly recap / 9 Comments

April showers bring May … well … may God have mercy on my TBR. That’s probably how that statement should end.

This month wasn’t great on the reading front, especially since I’ve been working overtime a lot lately. It’s a bummer. Really impedes on the whole reading thing.

So what things have happened in the past month? Not a whole lot, but a few fun points:

✦ I volunteered at the library and got the worst sunburn of my life. I’m pretty sure there’s a lesson somewhere in there. But I also got ice cream afterward with one of the librarians, so … eh. The lesson is I’m easy to bribe?

✦ My husband proclaimed that he never gets sick … and got sick two days later. He’s been sick for a week now. He will never live this down.

✦ My eight-year-old watched The Mummy for the first time and decided she like Arnold Vosloo’s face (much to my husband’s dismay).

✦ She also wants to be a librarian, after learning that the only feasible way for her to become a princess is to forcefully take over a country.

✦ My muse woke from his long slumber and blindsided me with a high fantasy Aladdin retelling plot idea. Because he’s a jerkface. 



#AmReading Update
Books Read This Month: 8

Challenger Deep            
           


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Challenger Deep (★★★★☆)
The Night Before Krampus (★★★★☆)
The Unbinding of Mary Reade (★★★☆☆)
The Anomaly (★★★☆☆)
I Can’t Date Jesus (★★★★☆)
The Waking Forest (★★★☆☆)
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (★★★★★)
Romanov (★★☆☆☆)
In An Absent Dream (★★★☆☆)

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Here are some great posts this month from other bloggers:

✦ Cait (aka Paper Fury) talks about what it’s like to write an #ownvoices novel since hers released this month.

✦ Lynne at Fictionophile has a really neat infographic about 12 confusing words.

✦ Annemieke at A Dance With Books gives some great advice about taking bookish photos.

✦ Krysta at Pages Unbound talks about the need for a New Adult section.

✦ Briana at Pages Unbound gives some advice on reviving old blog content.

✦ Jen at Jenniely gives advice on how to request ARCs.





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9 responses to “April 2019 Recap (Hello Overtime, Goodbye Reading Time)”

  2. dinipandareads

    This is a great wrap up post of all the bookish things! Quite a few of the books you’ve read this month are on my TBR….that I’ll get to eventually! Lol

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    • Sammie

      Thanks! I hope you enjoy them when you get to them. xD I can so relate to that. I see all these people talking about these books I want to (and should) read. Maybe in another five years, I’ll have caught up just a teensy bit? 😛

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    • Sammie

      I mean, clearly she’s got my good taste (though I did always prefer Oded Fehr), so I can’t fault her for that one.

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  4. Annemieke

    Thanks for sharing my post <3. Eight is still a great number But I hope that May will have much less overtime for you. Just normal time, haha.
    And ah kids, aren't they the greatest with their world domination plans?

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