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emilyccannings · 1 year

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April 2023 TBR

All the fabulous books I am reading in April!

It is my birthday month! I was too cosy in my mum’s tum and was supposed to come in March but I waited for the supposed sun in April. I love being born in April as it is the month of Easter which is just one big indulgence in chocolate and hot cross buns, my two favourite things in life. In terms reading though, I am keeping it short and sweet, as I know I will be busy seeing friends. However,…

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#April 2023 TBR #April TBR #books #Bookshop.org #EmilyLovesLondon #Foyles #Goodreads #TBR #Waterstones

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deliriousdisquisitions · 1 year

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21.04.2023. Currently re-reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

#deliriousdisquisitions #delirious disquisitions #studyblr #bookblr #gradblr #books #literature #english literature #jane austen #pride and prejudice #book quotes #2023 tbr #april tbr #100 days of productivity

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bookaddict24-7 · 1 year

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New Young Adult Releases! (April 18th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin

Take by Jennifer Bradbury

A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson

Alondra by Gina Femia

Wings in the Wild by Margarita Engle

If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

Hot Dutch Daydream by Kristy Boyce

I Kick & I Fly by Ruchira Gupta

Pardalita by Joana Estrela (Translated by Lyn Miller Lachmann)

The Cherished by Patricia Ward

New Sequels:

The Song of Wrath (The Bones of Ruin #2) by Sarah Raughley

Snow & Poison (Cinder & Glass #2) by Melissa de la Cruz

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Happy reading!

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slaughter-books · 1 year

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Day 1: JOMPBPC: April Goals

My immediate TBR for April, 2023! 💛

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bookthorns · 1 year

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MAY TBR | continuing my percy jackson reread and readalong!!! ⚔️😍🌊

Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! I know I’m a bit late but I would feel weird not posting a monthly tbr so here’s everything I hope to read this month! Yes, there are a lot of Hoemance books on here because my main goal for th month is to get up to date with our Riordanverse readalong we host on the Hoemance discord! (you can also follow our Instagram for any book club updates + book…

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#2023 tbrs #April/May TBR #tbr

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mreeverbatim · 1 year

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#crime and punishment #dostoyevski #reading #april tbr #monthly tbr #tbr 2023 #read in 2023 #dark academia #light academia #bookblr

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girlwithinfiction · 1 year

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✨WHAT'S POPPIN' THIS APRIL (Part 2)✨

The books are:

• Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb

• City of Dreams by Don Winslow

• Games and Rituals by Katherine Henry

• Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar by Jessamyn Violet

• No Place to Hide by J.S Monroe

• Someone is Always Watching by Kelley Armstrong

• Tenkill by Shannon Kirk

• Tauhou by Kotuku Tithula Nuttall

• Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith

• The Recall Paradox by Julian Ray Vaca

• Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe

• Old Flame by Molly Prentiss

• Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee

• The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese

• Advika and the Hollywood Wives by Kirthana Ramisetti

• The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie by Various Authors

• Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys by D.M.S Fick

• Master of Souls by Rena Barron

• The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

• Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

• The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland

• Cleaning Up by Leanne Lieberman

• Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

• The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

• Not Here to Stay Friends by Kaitlyn Hill

• First-Year Orientation by Various Authors

• Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens

• Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker

• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

• The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora

• The House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

• The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly

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#book blog #book recommendations #bookstagram #book recs #bookish #booksbooksbooks #books #booklover #booklr #upcomingrelease #tbr list #april 2023

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kattra · 1 year

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What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF APRIL A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis ** Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead (SS) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers ** VenCo by Cherie Dimaline ** Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey (about a divorce) Abandoned Alberta by Joe Chowaniec (NF) ** Bravely by Maggie Stiefvater ** Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror edited by John F.D. Taff (SS) Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones ** Final Girls by Riley Sager ** Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead Tatouine by Jean-Christophe Réhel Come Closer and Listen by Charles Simic (P)

Graphic Novels: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Vol.4-6 by Aka Akasaka My Dress-Up Darling Vol.7-8 by Shinichi Fukuda **

(61 books read / 125 books goal)

currently reading: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (P) Greedy: Notes From a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston (NF) Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (SS) A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo Only A Monster by Vanessa Len

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook

TBR: Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons (SS) The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead (NF) The Renunciations by Donna Kelly (P) Himawari House by Harmony Becker (GN) Graveneye by Sloane Leong & Anna Bowles (GN)

WHAT ARE YOU READING? :D

Find me on: GOODREADS | THE STORYGRAPH

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missams53 · 1 year

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March Wrap-up and April TBR 2023

Hello everyone: I know that it has been a while since I last posted anything. I have been busy and exhausted this past month. March was not my best month for reading. I was only able to finish one book. That book was The War That Saved My Life. I started the second book and got about halfway through The War I Finally Won. However, I did not find the energy to continue listening to the book. I am…

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#2023 #April #March #TBR #Wrap up

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magical-book-lush · 1 year

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Realmathon TBR/April TBR || Readathons.

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#2023 #April #Magical Readathon #My Monthly TBR #Readathon #Realmathon #TBR books #TBR Update

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roseunspindle · 1 year

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April 2023 TBR

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deliriousdisquisitions · 1 year

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06.04.2023. Currently reading Homer's Odyssey Book XII.

Done with Book XI. By far, my favourite section after the bloody encounters with the cannibalistic giants. I've always been fascinated (read: obsessed) with the Hades/Persephone myth and all things related to the underworld. So this has been a treat! I only wish we got to see the goddess herself and Cerberus (who gets a passing mention). It was also quite fun to see the cameos by the other dead legendry figures.

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beckysbook5 · 1 year

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Monthly TBR - April 2023!

Hello, hello! How is it almost April?!? This year is flying by, but I suppose this means it's the perfect time to show you all of the amazing books I'm planning to read next month! #MonthlyTBR

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#April 2023 #monthly tbr

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 6 months

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✨ National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) is celebrated in April. The first Arab American Heritage Day was celebrated on October 25, 1992. NAAHM celebrates the heritage and culture of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking Americans. It also recognizes the contributions of Arab Americans to the United States, including:

🌙 The history of Arab migration to America 🌙 The diversity within the Arab American community 🌙 Important customs and traditions 🌙 The fight for civil rights and social justice

✨ NAAHM also serves as a time to: 🌙 Combat Anti-Arab bigotry 🌙 Challenge stereotypes and prejudices

✨ In 2023, the president declared April National Arab American Heritage Month. However, I felt it necessary to recognize Arab American Heritage Day this year, too. I'm Palestinian 🇵🇸, but growing up, I never saw that word printed on a page, never saw it recognized as a nationality in novels or newspapers. We're here. We exist. We will not be erased, ignored, or silenced.

✨ In celebration of these voices, here are a few books by Arab and 🇵🇸Palestinian authors to consider adding to your TBR.

🌙 A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 The Woman From Tantoura by Radwa Ashour 🌙 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🌙 Crescent by Diana Abu Jaber 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi 🌙 Silence is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan Darwish 🌙 Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited by Kareem Rabie 🌙 My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh 🌙 Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd 🌙 Among the Almond Trees by Hussein Barghouthi 🌙 Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (edited) by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean 🌙 The Book of Ramallah (edited) by Maya Abu Al-Hayat 🌙 Stories Under Occupation: And Other Plays from Palestine (edited) by Samer al-Saber and Gary M. English 🌙 Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy al-Asheq 🌙 Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh 🌙 Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance (edited) by Ahmad Qabaha and Rachel Gregory Fox 🌙 The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion by Akram Musallam 🌙 Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimr 🌙 The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt 🌙 Evil Eye by Etaf Rum 🌙 A Child in Palestine by Naji al-Ali 🌙 Murals by Mahmoud Darwish 🌙 Farah Rocks by Susan Muaddi Darraj 🌙 Halal Hot Dogs by Suzannah Aziz, illustrated by Parwinder Singh 🌙 Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine by Rifk Ebeid, illustrated by Lamaa Jawhari 🌙 The Olive Tree Said to Me by N. Salem 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 Don't Read The Comments by Eric Smith 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 The Lady of Tel Aviv by Raba’i al-Madhoun 🌙 Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said

#palestine #free palestine #arab american heritage month #muslim writers #arab writers #palestinians #books #book recs #book recommendation #book list #reading #book blog #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

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ofliterarynature · 7 months

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AUGUST 2023 WRAP UP

[ loved liked okay no thanks DNF (reread) bookclub*]

I’m late I’m late I’m late! Oops

It’s only a month late, right? ‘Only’ lol, work has been exhausting! Anyways:

At this point I wonder if Ann Leckie can ever do wrong, Translation State was good! I was completely enthralled, which is all I ask, even if I don’t get as passionate about it as the main trilogy.

I continued the KJ Charles reading, with these supposed stand alones that are also kind of related? Honestly it’s no less of a stretch than Society of Gentlemen to Lilywhite Boys, so I don’t know why she can’t officially list them together. Anyways, mostly fine, and Band Sinister is still a delight!

Camp Damascus…I’m thrilled for Chuck, really, and I think he’s a delight to follow, but this one wasn’t for me. Religious trauma is turning out to be a hard no.

Ocean’s Echo was good! In some ways I definitely thought it was better than Winter’s Orbit - miscommunication is the worst I’m sorry, this story was more consistently engaging! I just like the characters from WO a bit more.

Chrestomanci! I’ve been going by the suggested reading order on Goodreads, and while I wasn’t particularly enthused by Charmed Life, once I had a grasp on the world the other books have been fun! Im very sad this might be my last DWJ, as I seem to have exhausted my library’s collection of her audiobooks :(

Grimoire of Grave Fates had a really interesting premise that lured me in, despite my reservations - an anthology where all the stories work together to solve the mystery of a murder at a magic boarding school? I thought it worked fairly well (and could definitely spin itself out into a series of novels), but just ok for me. Maybe one day I’ll finally concede I can’t read YA or boarding school books anymore.

Q’s Legacy was the last (I think) of the 84 Charing Cross Road books, and honestly the worst. It had its interesting moments, but it lacked the cohesion of the other two, speed,-running the before and during of those stories, to then spend the second half on the adaptations. It was not at all what the descriptions led me to expect. Maybe worth a single read but not a revisit.

I will also be honest, I didn’t really like the first Veronica Speedwell! The plot felt a bit contrived, and Veronica was so blunt as to almost read as rude or mean. Also very unexpectedly…clinically horny? Does that make sense? I’m not quite sure what prompted me to continue, but I’m now several books in and enjoying it! To be blunt myself, the historic setting is just set dressing, the plots can feel contrived, the mysteries are mediocre, but the real draw is the Veronica and Stoker show once they get themselves settled in and comfortable with each other. It’s a hoot.

I’d heard good things about The Art of Prophecy, but I still didn’t know quite what to expect going in. It was wonderful. Maybe a little long, but if you’re looking for a fantastic fantasy with lots of fight sequences, no romance, and some fascinating characters, this is a great read. The sequel comes out soon and I can only hope it doesn’t take as long for my library to get the audiobook as it did for this one.

I don’t know where I first found An Enchanted April, but it’s been on my TBR for a little bit, and I thought it would be the perfect fit for my classics challenge I gave myself this year! It wasn’t what I expected at all - it’s entirely character driven and very focused on their flaws, and the entire first half I thought I was going to hate it. But the second half, there’s a twist, almost, born of some very naïve optimism that nonetheless works out. Very improbably, but I was happy for them, you funky little weirdos.

What can I say about The Angel of the Crows except that it is still very good! It’s maybe lost a little of the shine it held when I got obsessed with it for a few months last year, but it is definitely now one of my comfort books. I really ought to read more canon Holmes though lol.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was, to be fair, one of my suggestions for book club. It was OK, but there were definitely parts that really did not work for me, the frame narrative in particular. The other members of the club really liked it but I don’t have any plans to read more of the authors work.

I’m almost tempted to put The Last Sun last just so I can yell more. I’d heard such good things about this series, but turns out my expectations were a bit skewed - it is not historical or secondary fantasy world, oops. So we got off to a bit of a rough start, not to mention all of the Capital Words. Not usually a good sign. And while I still wouldn’t say I love the worldbuilding necessarily, or that these are the next great work of fantasy, the action is really great, and the characters are flipping fantastic. You’ve got a pair of 30 year olds who are bad ass fighters, have a traumatic past, are immature assholes, can be so so kind, and accidentally adopt a posse of troubled teenagers? Sign me up, I love them, this reminds me so much of my days reading tons of Teen Wolf fanfic AUs.

My history with 2 AM At the Cat's Pajamas is that they cannot stop recommending this thing on the Book Riot podcasts. When I found a copy at Goodwill, I thought surely it’s meant to be! Well. It was not bad, but it was not great. I don’t know. It just wasn’t for me and I will not be keeping my copy. I probably should have DNF’d it, but I continued in hope.

Only one actual DNF this month though, The Mistress of Bhatia House - the newest Perveen Mistri book. I was actually fairly excited for it despite my reservations about the earlier books, but I hit a mental roadblock with this one. There was some contrived feeling tension with her sister-in-law, but really, I realized that one of my main problems with this series is that, despite being in a very precarious social position, Perveen is just incredibly reckless - usually in the name of doing good! - but it just hit all the wrong nerves at the moment. I’m hoping there will be a better time to read this, but not right now.

#bec posts #2023 #book log #wrap up 2023 #translation state #kj Charles #camp Damascus #oceans echo #chrestomanci #diana wynne jones #the grimoire of grave fates #helene hanff #Veronica speedwell #the art of prophecy #the enchanted April #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #tarot sequence #the last sun #2 am at the cats pajamas

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thstarsofsilver · 1 month

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thank you for the tag @fandomloversarah !! xx

last 3 films you watched: elvis, shazam: fury of the gods and forrest gump

4 films on your to-watch list: the menu, bullet train, wedding season and the imitation game (i have now watched all but the last yay)

last 3 songs/artists you listened to: ceilings by lizzy mcalpine, water by kwengface and cry by cigarettes after sex

4 songs/artists on your to-listen list: more rina sawayama (!), more prince, kali claire and brent faiyaz

last 3 books you read: a portrait of the artist as a young man (henry james), desire (frank bidart) and citizen (maggie nelson)

4 books on your tbr: ignoring my required reading (i ignore it anyway lol) - finish crooked kingdom (leigh bardugo), read the secret history (donna tartt), fight club (chuck palahniuk), evelina (frances burney)

tagging: this is from april 2023. instead of tagging i'm gonna reblog with an updated version hehe

#userfiz #reblog #mine #textpost #tag game #misc #tag games are so much fun #it's actually embarrassing how this is nearly a year old #so old that sarah deactivated i'm crying #close the door. i feel a draft coming in #i didn't want queue to be alone

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