Monthly Wrap Up: April

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I can’t believe we’re at the end of another month already! Two full months of blogging 💪 You’re probably sick of me saying this, but I’m honestly so glad I decided to start this blogging journey. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Here’s to many more months to come ♥

April was a bit of weird month for me. On the bright side it was my birthday month and the start of my 2 favourite seasons (Autumn & Winter #SouthernHemipshereRepresent 🙌) and then on the negative it took me like 2 weeks to be able to read something and my anxiety was really high.

Most importantly though I had so much fun blogging and talking to all of you and spending too much money books.

BOOKS I BOUGHT

Just going to include physicals because this post will go on forever if I mention e-books 😂

Yes, I know I have a book buying problem but

and in my defense A LOT of these were for my birthday.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli // The Haters by Jesse Andrews // 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher // Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard // The Special Ones by Em Bailey // The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor // Possessed, Fire and Leaving Poppy by Kate Cann // The Selection by Kiera Cass // American Gods by Neil Gaiman // Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin // Nightfall by Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski** // You by Caroline Kepnes // Demon Road by Derek Landy // Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas // Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden // Cinder by Marissa Meyer // The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North // Demigods & Magicans by Rick Riordan // Night Film by Marisha Pessl // Frankie by Shivaun Plozza // Seventeen & Gone by Nova Ren Suma // Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

** Recieved from a Goodreads Giveaway via Allen & Unwin

👍💸 I purchased 13 more books than last month. 💸👍

BOOKS I READ/REVIEWED

Like I said above it took me almost 2 weeks before I managed to read a book this month. So I didn’t read as many books as I did in March. To no one’s surprise I only read 2 books that I had on my April TBR 😂 Like last month most of these are graphic novels because I don’t know how to attention span. I’m not including single issues of comics, just trades.

Clicking on a cover = Goodreads.
Clicking on a title = Review.

Total books read: 11

  

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (★★★★★) // Gotham Academy, Vol 1: Welcome to Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan (★★★★★) // We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (★★★★★) // Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (★★★★★)

   

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (★★★★★) // Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (★★★★★) // Asleep by Krystal Wade (★★★★☆) // The Complete Alice in Wonderland [Graphic Novel] by Lewis Carroll & Leah Moore (★★★★☆)

  

Paper Girls, Vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (★★★★☆) // Death House by Carole Avila (★★★★☆) // Amulet, Vol 2: The Stonekeeper’s Curse by Kazu Kibuishi (★★★★★)

Despite not reading many books I did something I rarely do – I COMPLETED A BOOK SERIES! After some serious binge reading (which is also super rare for me) I completed The Raven Cycle series and I am a MESS. I still don’t know how to process everything. I have the biggest book hangover ever.

I’m also calling this month a success because look at all those 5 star ratings???

My favourite reads of this month were: The Dream Thieves, Nimona, Gotham Academy and We Should All Be Feminists. 

👎😔 I read 9 books less than last month. 😔👎

Here’s hoping for a better May! Despite not sticking to a TBR this month I’m going to give it another go next month so my May TBR will be up tomorrow (which is pretty much just all the books that I never got to on my April TBR lmao).

OTHER APRIL POSTS

Weekly Wrap Ups:

March Monthly Wrap Up // April 10 // April 17 // April 25

Discussions:

So… You Want to Star Reading Comics & Graphic Novels? // Let’s Talk: Blogging Anxieties

Book Tags & Awards:

The Sunshine Blogger Award // The F.R.I.E.N.D.S Book Tag // Real Neat Blog Award // The Harry Potter Book Tag // Scavenger Hunt Book Tag // The Inside Out Book Tag // This or That Book Tag (Version 2) // Book Sacrifice // Burn, Rewrite, Reread // This or That Book Tag (Version 1) // Dragon’s Loyalty Award, The Miranda Sings Award & The Entertainer Blogger Award // #FemmeFriday Book Tag

Top Ten Tuesday:

10 Delightful Bookish Posts // 10 Books That Will Make You Laugh (or at least chuckle) // 10 Books to Try Out if You Want to Start Reading YA Horrors & Thrillers // 10 BookTubers People You Should Follow

Top 5 Wednesday:

5 Books You’re Intimidated By // 5 Books with “Hard” Topics (ie mental health, sexual assault, illness, etc)

Misc:

3 Days, 3 Quotes – Day 1 // Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-A-Thon // Waiting on Wednesday – The Merciless II // Sunday Post & April TBR // Stacking the Shelves

Next Month:

• More tags because I’m trash
• I recently discovered a PUBLISHED BOOK OF FAN FICTION IMAGINES BY ANNA TODD and I read it and oh boy, look forward to a post on that one!!
• A discussion about The Raven Cycle series because how do I even BEGIN to review that weird, magical series
• Maybe some reviews lmao

And y’know

If you read any of the books I read this month or are planing to I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Link me to your Wrap Up posts so I can drop by!

I hope you all had a fantastic April and have an even better May xx