I am that person who loves data, charts, and lists. So every month, I recap what I read and what books I acquire along with anything else I think is of value or interest. Let me know if you have any ideas!
Breakdown
• Books read: 12
• Pages read: 3,406 (without audio)
• Time listened: 22 hour 15 minutes
• Percent female authors: 100%
• Percent BIPOC authors: 16.7%
Books read
- The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio | ⭐⭐💫
- Flirty Little Secret by Jessica Lepe | ⭐
- Dear Sister by Michelle Horton 🎧| ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
- The Gathering by C.J. Tudor | ⭐⭐⭐💫
- Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld | ⭐⭐
- The Five Year Lie by Sarina Bowen | ⭐⭐⭐
- Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura | ⭐⭐⭐💫
- Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne 🎧|⭐⭐⭐
- Bass-Ackwards by Erin Adderly | ⭐⭐⭐
- Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams | ⭐⭐⭐
Books in progress
I started three books in April that I plan to finish in May:
- Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda
- Young Rich Widows by Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, & Vanessa Lillie
- On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins & the Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen 🎧
Books acquired
I acquired the following books this month:
Book of the Month
- All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
- A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
- Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
- The Wives by Simone Gorrindo
Aardvark Book Club
- How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
- The Rule Book by Sarah Adams
Gifted Physical Copies
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (Pub: 4/16)
- The Lady Waiting by Magdalena Zyzak (Pub: 5/7)
- The Five Year Lie by Sarina Bowen (Pub: 5/7)
- The Last Time She Saw Him by Kate White (Pub: 5/14)
- Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi (Pub: 6/18)
- Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller (Pub: 6/18)
- Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier (Pub: 7/30)
- One Year Ago in Spain by Evelyn Skye (Pub: 7/30)
- The Manicurist’s Daughter: A Memoir by Susan Lieu
- The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller
- Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee
NetGalley Approvals
- The Hunter’s Daughter by Nicola Solvinic (Pub: 5/14)
- Boyhood by Reuben Fenton (Pub: 5/28)
- Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Cornell (Pub: 5/25)
Book Events & Buys
- A Better World by Sarah Langan
- The Majority by Elizabeth L. Silver
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
- The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
- The Education is an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
