Tag: Monthly Wrap-Up

MAYbe I’m Amazed!

~ Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader ~ 40 Comments

  1. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
  2. Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
  3. The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein
  4. Maus, Vol. 2 by Art Spiegelman
  5. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
  6. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  7. The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
  8. Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende
  9. Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann
  10. Famous Drownings in Literary History by Kevin Haworth
  11. Kindred by Octavia Butler
  12. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
  13. In The Garden of Stone by Susan Tekulve
  14. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
  15. Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
  16. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
May was good to me. I slowed down a lot, compared to April. I’m not complaining one bit. I read some amazing books this month. 
Holy cow, I read 7 nonfiction books. That’s awesome. How in the world will I pick a favorite for my upcoming Hall of Fame post? Ack!

I hope you had a fantastic month! What were some of your favorite May reads? 

Amazeballs April

~ Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader ~ 54 Comments

So, I read a few books in April:

  1. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  2. Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
  3. The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown
  4. Black Venus by James MacManus
  5. The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister
  6. Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
  7. The Mourning Hours by Paula Treick DeBoard
  8. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  9. Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
  10. The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
  11. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
  12. Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley
  13. However Long the Night by Aimee Molloy
  14. After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey
  15. In The Land of the Living by Austin Ratner
  16. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  17. City of Thieves by David Benioff
  18. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
  19. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  20. The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith
  21. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
  22. Garden of Stones by Sophie Littlefield*
  23. The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald*
  24. Maus by Art Spiegelman*
  25. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*
  26. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

* Read during Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-Thon

I’ll be doing a Hall of Fame post in June. At that time I’ll have to pick my favorite fiction and nonfiction book for April. Right now it hurts my brain to even try. Ouch.

Wasn’t April great for readers? So many fab events! Read-a-Thons, World Book Night, yahoo!

2013 Reading Challenge

2013 Reading Challenge
You have read 83 books toward your goal of 150 books.
 
83 of 150 (55%)
Awesome, you’re 34 books (22%) ahead of schedule!

How was the month of April for you? Do you have a favorite book of the month?

Onward Readers! Let’s make May fabulous!