#april wrap up

[literatureaesthetic]

i can't do an april wrap-up/monthly book recommendation post because i only finished one book in april, and it was a short story(🥴)

april was a month of travelling, of exploring, and of heartbreak (having to reject an offer from oxford because i can't afford relocating rn is going to haunt me for the rest of my life). reading, for the first time in a long time, hasn't been a priority for me, and that feels really good??

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Read in April 2025

well, despite being incredibly sick the first half of the month, I managed to read a decent amount of books and I really enjoyed the majority of them. Careless People and the two Handmaid's Tale books were definitely the standouts this month

Nonfiction:

The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose - 4/5

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams - 5/5

Familiar authors:

The Thirteenth Child by Erin A Craig - 3/5

Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson - 4/5

A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall - 4/5

This Stays Between Us by Margot McGovern - 4/5

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay - 3/5

Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen - 4/5

Other reads:

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - 5/5

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - 5/5

Bitter is the Heart by Mina Hardy - 4/5

The Specimen by Jaima Fixsen - 4/5

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon - 4/5

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 3/5

Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang - 4/5

[aliteraryprincess]

April 2025 Wrap Up

This feels like it's been the longest month ever. There's been so much stuff going on. Two of my friends have defended their dissertations (successfully!), and I finished my third chapter and started the final one. I've had to go to a funeral. There's been holidays and birthdays and just SO much! It's as if a whole year has happened just in April.

Books Read: 13

Great reading month, huh? To be fair, five are picture books. Dreamer's Pool was definitely the favorite of the month. And my least favorite was probably Gulliver's Travels.

Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguié - 2.5 stars

Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman - 5 stars

Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman - 5 stars

Swan Lake by Margot Fonteyn, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman - 4 stars

Ghost Cat by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Kevin M. Barry - 4 stars

The Wild Swans by Amy Ehrlich, illustrated by Susan Jeffers - 4 stars

Sappho translated by Mary Barnard - 3.5 stars

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - 2.5 stars

Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier - 5 stars

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali - 4 stars

Lila by Marilynne Robinson - 4 stars

Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan - 2.5 stars

Daisy Miller by Henry James - 3 stars

Books DNFed: 1

And one DNF, which is always disappointing. I've had this one on my shelves forever, so I figured I should give it a try. I'm unhauling it now.

Elmet by Fiona Mozley - I read the first 70 pages and just wasn't into it.

On Tumblr:

Look! There's photos again!

March 2025 Wrap Up

Book Photography: Persephone Books Haul

Book Photography: The Goose Girl // Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier

Book Photography: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Book Photography: Sappho translated by Mary Barnard

Book Photography: The Wild Swans // Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

Book Quotes: Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Book Quotes: Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney

Tagged: 25 in 2025 - April Update

aliteraryprincess' 100 Favorite Books

aliteraryprincess' 100 Favorite Movies

On YouTube:

And the usual assortment on here.

March Wrap Up | 8 books...and only 2 are from my TBR 🫠

Quarter-Year Check-In: A Reflective Book Tag

Book Review | Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The 18th-Century Novel Project | Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

May TBR | my TBR wheels are out to get me

Picture This 2025 Wrap Up

[freckles-and-books]

Not my best reading month, but there were a few gems.

[franticvampirereads]

My tummy hurts and I’m mad at the government. So, here are all the books I read in April that have been keeping me sane in these trying times:

The Flowered Blade (not pictured 🤦‍♀️) 4.5⭐️ {review}

Fence vol 1 4⭐️ {review}

Fence vol 2 5⭐️ {see above}

The Nightmare Before Kissmas 5⭐️ {review}

Fence vol 3 4⭐️ {review}

Fence vol 4 5⭐️ {see above}

Priest 4⭐️ {review}

Fence vol 5 4⭐️ {review}

Fence vol 6 5⭐️ {see above}

Unhinged Titan 4⭐️ {review}

Go Luck Yourself 5⭐️ {review}

Halo -currently reading

A Spell For Heartsickness -currently reading

My favorite books this month were Nightmare Before Kissmas and Go Luck Yourself. I loved them both so much and I cried while reading them! 😊❤️

[books-coffee-and-the-woods]

(Belated) April 2025 Reading Wrap Up!

I read 6 books last month! Not as many as I hoped, but a couple of those were absolute bricks, and another was Eileen, which was a slog.

Reading Stats

Read:

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (...technically, finished April 1)

The Silver Coin - Michael Walsh, Chip Zdarsky, Kelly Thompson, Ed Brisson, Jeff Lemire ⭐⭐⭐

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Don't Sleep with the Dead - Nghi Vo ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Dolphin Diaries vols 1-3 bindup - Ben M. Baglio ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (the nostalgia is real)

Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh ⭐⭐⭐

Currently Reading:

Borne - Jeff Vandermeer (reread)

Acquisitions

I acquired 4 books this month - 3 from the little free library and one from a thrift store. I should probably stop picking up books as my shelves are quite full, but at least I didn't spend much on them this month?

Little Free Library:

Why We Act Like Canadians - Pierre Berton

The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson

Uncertain Voyage - Dorothy Gilman

Thrift Store:

Princess Academy - Shannon Hale

Goals for May

May is going to be a busy month--my aunt and grandma are visiting for a week, and my aunt is staying with me, which is the first time ever I'll have a guest staying for more than one night. So I'm not going to make any wild goals, but I have a few things I'd like to accomplish:

Start reading every day again instead of spending my lunch breaks on social media (...or actually start exercise biking again since I need to build leg muscles for hiking, and read then)

Get into another manga series, probably either Blue Morning (I read books 1-3 at the start of the year, and have books 4-8 on my tbr) or Witch Hat Atelier: Kitchen, which I can get from the library.

Try "daisychaining" inspired by @bigcats-birds-and-books - basically making a short TBR list bases on similar threads between books. My attempts at longer TBR list have fallen through but maybe if I keep it short and themed I can make it work...

Start book journaling again. I stopped sometime last month and haven't picked it up again, but I feel like it's much more helpful to write my thoughts somewhere physical than to just launch them into the ether.

[tolive1000lives]

We’ve hit the halfway mark of the 2024 reading challenge! These are most of my 2024 reads and I’m excited to add to the stack!

[dragonbadgerbooks]

April was a good month for reading! Maybe I'll expand on my thoughts, but also probably not :P

[bloodstaineddarling]

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[read-alert]

April Wrap Up!

My favorite of the month was House of Elephants!

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt- 4⭐️

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire- 2.5⭐️

Afrotistic by Kala Allen Omeiza- 2⭐️

Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina- 1⭐️

Star Trek Volume 2 by Mike Johnson et al- 3⭐️

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova- 5⭐️

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White- 4⭐️

The Fifty Year Mission: The First 25 Years: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek by Edward Gross and Mark A Altman- 2.5⭐️

No. 6 Volume 5 by Atsuko Asano and Hinoki Kino- 4⭐️

Death's Country by RM Romero- 2.5⭐️

Fierce Like a Firestorm by Lana Popović- 3⭐️

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen- 2.5⭐️

Thyme Travelers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction ed by Sonia Sulaiman- 4⭐️

Kindred Spirits: Shilombish Ittibachvffa by Leslie Stall Widener illustrated by Johnson Yazzie- 5⭐️

The Power of Shazam! by Jerry Ordway- 4⭐️

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett- 2.5⭐️

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris- 4⭐️

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett- 3⭐️

House of Elephants by Claribel A Ortega- 5⭐️

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Volume 1: Terrorformer by Robbie Morrison et al- 2.5⭐️

[ismahanescorner]

April Wrapped - 2025

Books:

Ireland: 3/5

Shows:

Julie and the Phantoms: rewatch

The Apothecary Diaries: watching

The Vampire Diaries: rewatching

Eşref Rüya: watching

Sahipsizler: watching

Movies:

Ask Me What You Want: 6/10

Uncle William, Please Say I do: 5/10

Falling Into My Magnate Ex: 4/10

My World Ends With You: 4/10

The Life List: 6/10

Marked Men (Rule + Shaw): 3/10

Her Desired Alphas: 3/10

Say You Remember, Say You Love: 5/10

A Trade of Hearts: 4/10

Drowning in Love: 4/10

Do Me, My Sexy Male Stripper: 4/10

Love Across Time: 6/10

sooo, i’m back in uni to finish up my thesis! hence, i’ve practically done no reading whatsoever and only been binge watching trash movies as a coping mechanism in my down time.

also, my stress and anxiety kinda drove me to watch edits of my past fave turkish dramas which in turn landed new (currently airing) dramas on my fyp. and now, i’ve binged eşref rüya and sahipsizler and i’m literally addicted!!! aaaaah ya rabbim benim canim azdev/eşissan!!!

as for ireland, i think i’ll post a full review when i’m free!

[brightbeautifulthings]

April

J | F | M |

reviews Civil War by Mark Millar (5/5) The Deepest Roots by Miranda Asebedo (4/5) The Golden Raven by Nora Sakavic (4/5) Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes (3/5) Mister Magic by Kiersten White (3/5) Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales (3/5) Spooksville: The Thing in the Closet by Christopher Pike (3/5) Spooksville: Time Terror by Christopher Pike (3/5)

rereads The King's Men by Nora Sakavic (5/5) The Raven King by Nora Sakavic (5/5) The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic (5/5) Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (5/5) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (5/5)

etcetera TMST: New Genres Readalikes: Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block & When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

[aliteraryprincess]

April 2024 Wrap Up

Not me posting my April wrap up over halfway through May...

Books Read: 13

Look at all these! I mean, to be fair, five are picture books. But still. My favorite was, of course, The Sunshine Court. I can't believe that the year of our lord 2024 gave us a new All for the Game book. It was amazing! My least favorite was The Biographer's Tale. A serious disappointment from the author of one of my favorite books. I was also unable to finish Apt Pupil, although I thought it was well-written. Almost too well-written. I was seriously disturbed. Books marked with ® are rereads.

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King - 4 stars

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - 4 stars

In the night I dream of home by Vagelis Iliopoulos, illustrated by Hariton Bekiaris - 4 stars

The Sleeping Beauty retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman - 4 stars

The Idiot by Elif Batuman - 4 stars

Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey - 4 stars

Molly by Joseph S. Bonsall, illustrated by Erin Marie Mauterer - 4 stars ®

Sea Tale by Gail E. Haley - 4 stars ®

An Ellis Island Christmas by Maxinne Rhea Leighton, illustrated by Dennis Nolan - 4 stars ®

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot - 5 stars ®

The Biographer's Tale by A. S. Byatt - 2 stars

The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars

The Ways of Life by Margaret Oliphant - 4.5 stars

Books DNFed: 1

Apt Pupil by Stephen King - due to violent animal death

On Tumblr:

There's not much here, but @thehobbitwithstickyuppyhair helped me find a childhood picture book that I've been trying to find for years, and I am so grateful!

March 2024 Wrap Up

Book Quotes: The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Book Quotes: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Help me find this picture book? - Solved!

More Victorian Novels Connections

On YouTube:

And a good mix here, including a Fairy Tale Friday.

March Wrap Up | 8 reads, 1 DNF

Fairy Tale Friday | The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn

Quarter Year Crisis Book Tag 2024

Currently Reading 4/15/24

The George Eliot Project | Middlemarch

1st Book Haul of 2024 | January to March

May TBR | Mental Health May & more!

What I Read for Picture This 2024

[princessofbookaholics]

April was a productive reading month. And I liked everything that I read so that was great. Also got a 5 star read FINALLY! The Reappearance of Rachel Price was amazing and I'm happy that I got a perfect read after so long! I read the full Defy the Night series which put a good dent in my TBR. Here's the wrap up:

Mexican Gothic ⭐⭐⭐

Four Aunties and a Wedding ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Expiration Dates ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Reappearance of Rachel Price ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Loveless (reread) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Rule Book ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Party ⭐⭐⭐

Everything I Know About Love ⭐⭐⭐

Defy the Night ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Teach Me ⭐⭐⭐

Long Time Gone (ARC) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Defend the Dawn ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bethrotal or Breakaway ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tomb Sweeping ⭐⭐⭐

Only and Forever ⭐⭐⭐

Destroy the Day ⭐⭐⭐

[franticvampirereads]

April has been such a great reading month for me. I think I’ve read almost 12 books this month? Which doesn’t seem real but I guess it is. So here’s what I read in April:

Lazarus (AFTG 3.5) 5⭐️ {story link}

All Hail The Underdogs 5⭐️ {review}

Power Plays & Straight A’s 4⭐️ {review}

Foster In New York 4⭐️

Delinquent Daddy & Tender Teacher vol 1 4⭐️ {review}

The Foxhole Court 5⭐️ {review}

The Raven King 5⭐️ {review}

Mad Man 5⭐️ {review}

Mad Man bonus epilogue 5⭐️

Swamp Thing Twin Branches 4⭐️ {review}

The King’s Men -currently reading

Proficiency Bonus -currently reading

My favorite books this month were the All For The Game books. This reread was so good! It brought back so many memories and little things that I’d forgotten about them.

[lovebooksforeversblog]

April Wrap Up.. I loved this books