#April reading

[lavendergoddesstarot]

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑨𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒍 2024?

Pick a pile

Pile 1:

8 of Pentacles: Your hard work & efforts are resulting in quality things and products. You may be investing more into a skill, your education, work, a relationship, etc. Your investments will result in quality results.

Pile 2:

King of Pentacles: You are moving towards more financial stability this month. Or this can be a situation in your life becoming more stable. This could also mean investments from a male figure in your life.

[godzilla-reads]

🌼 April TBR 🌼

🌼 Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

🌼 Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

🌼 Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

[boosreads]

"I’ve discovered that I am very clever when it comes to caring about him, and so I will continue to do so"😭😭😭😭🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 charlottejamie you have moved me so much.

[sasha4books]

[thechaoticreader]

📖🌷🌦️April Reading Wrap🌦️🌷📖

Stats:

Total Read: 3 Avg Rating: 3.8⭐️ Most Read Genre: all different genres<3 Most Read Format: Physical Book (library) DNF Count: 0

Books:

Title: Camp Damascus Author: Chuck Tingle Format: Physical Book (library) Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Started: 03/13/24 Finished: 04/17/24 Quote: "Rose 2:6 And when the morning came she pushed onward because the wicked and the vile bore down from every side, and onward was the only direction she had left." pg 135

Title: Bride Author: Ali Hazelwood Format: Physical Book (Library) Genre: Paranormal Romance Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Started: 04/22/24 Finished: 04/28/24 Quote: " '...at times, there are decisions that feel right, deep in the narrow of my bones.' 'You are one of them'" pg 132

Title: Solitaire Author: Alice Oseman Format: Physical Book (Library) Genre: Y/A Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️.5 Started: 04/29/24 Finished: 04/29/24 Quote: "Sometimes I like to fill my days with little things that other people don't care about. It makes me feel like I'm doing something important, mainly because no one else is doing it." pg 7

[buried-in-an-avalanche-of-books]

With it being the last day of April, I feel disappointed with the amount I’ve read this month. Or should I say didn’t read. This has been such a bad reading month for me. I blame it on the mental heath.

I’ve been so depressed that the act of reading has felt like a chore. I hate it. I hate feeling like my favorite thing to do is a chore.

I have always loved reading. It’s been an escape from reality. I have always been the type to prefer reading over watching tv or movies.

This is the sad reality of struggling with depression. As much as I want to read, long to read, my brain stops me. It makes me feel like I’m doing a chore. It makes me feel like doing nothing but bed rotting.

As much as I want to be mad with myself for not reading as much as I want to, I know there’s not much in my control to fix it. I refuse to force myself to read when I’m feeling like this. I don’t want to ruin my love of reading by making it feel like a chore I have to do. I want reading to stay something I want to do.

I know I’m not alone in this struggle. Mental health matters. Getting help is important and not something you should be ashamed of. This too will pass.

[liliseraph]

♡ ♡ ♡ Hiii ✨ I rarely post readings on here anymore but i’m trying something new. ♡ ♡ ♡

This is my yt channel i just started. I’ve 2 other april readings posted here if you want something retrospective! Otherwise i’ll be adding more vids soon!! the most recent recorded is a pick a pile :) ♡ ♡ ♡

Thank you for watching if you do! 🤗

[missabigailtaylor]

Current April reads even though no one asked 😬

[royalelemental]

I just think it would be funny if Leo was born with the ability to see auras but has 0 idea that this is not normal, and then just naturally assumes when people talk about ‘vibe checks’ they’re checking the mood of someone’s aura.

[aesthetic-uni]

Oh. God.

[shisasan]

April 10, 1927 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[ditzyblues]

this was scarily in character for Casey and Foot Lieutenant. audio from TTG

[godzilla-reads]

🌼 April Reading Wrap-up 🌻

During the month of April I read a total of 10 books, bringing my yearly total to 59 books!

My three favorites have stars next to them on the list:

⭐️ The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales: A Collection of Magical Short Stories by Yoon Ha Lee

🔥 Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges and Trina Schart Hyman

⭐️ Tamamo the Fix Maiden and Other Asian Stories: A Cautionary Fables & Fairytales Book edited by Kel McDonald

🐲 The Dragon Universe by Ablaze Publishing

🧚‍♂️ Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien

👻 Heart Haunt Havoc by Freydís Moon

🏔️ The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen

⭐️ The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

🍃 Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Morgan Beem and Maggie Stiefvater

🌩️ Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

[kaggsy59]

A busy and bookish April! 😊📚 #1940Club

A busy and bookish April! 😊📚 #1940Club

I can’t believe we’re already at the end of another month – at this rate, it will be summer before we know it, although the weather is not doing much to convince me that we’re even in spring… However, April was a bumper month for books, and I once more read some great titles. Here’s my stack for the month, and although there are less in number than usual, there are some fascinating chunksters;…

[teenagenutant]

hi! i finally updated my fic pressure bomb so. doodles +lil' comic for chapter 3 & 4 ^^

[theraininthestars]

Violeta review

Hello darlings, I am very excited about this book. The reading was selected by a friend who had not read the book, but we both read another book by the author. The selected book is Violeta by Isabel Allende. The novel recounts:

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives at the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling...

She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics.

Isabel Allende has a beautiful narrative that describes Latin America from the perspective of someone who loves her land, from its beautiful mountains and charismatic smiles to its ruthless wars and challenging culture. She is able to portray the complexities of Latin American culture while describing historical events, delving into those realities. The characters are interesting and fit the story very well.

There are certain moments where I feel the bad things like misogyny, capitalism, war and other things come to the fore. It's not a bad thing that it's exemplified, but I feel like it could have been a more subtle way.

I loved this book, it is a great reading to delve into Latin American literature. Isabel Allende is an incredible author who deserves all the recognition for her work in literature. I would give this book 4.5 out of 5 stars. An excellent recommendation, and I hope you read the novel.

Have you read any latinx literature, and which do you recommend? How many books have you read thus far this year?