I don’t know about you but I feel like April just zoomed by and here we are at another month in review post. So let’s get to it.
This month I read three books: River Road by Carol Goodman, Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina and While the City Slept by Eli Sanders. By far the most powerful read was While the City Slept. I don’t think I got around to mentioning that I was reading this book but it was really good. Normally not my type of read as it is a true crime book but it made me sad and angry and just stayed with me for days.
I currently have five books I’m reading so I would like to focus on those before adding any new books but I’m so tempted by new stuff on my shelf and Kindle.
National Poetry Month is almost over and I didn’t get a chance to go to any spoken word events but I tried to read at least a new poem a day, which was easily accomplished by the daily emails I got from Poets.org. I also started reading a collection by Sonia Sanchez but unfortunately had to return it back to the library before I could finish it. I do know that I’ll be going back to this poet at a later time. I really enjoyed her work.
Looking forward to May I think I’m going to be relying on a lot of comfort reads as I have quite a lot of stuff going on but luckily vacation will be around the corner. In the meantime, did you know that Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day? I was planning to dedicate my weekend to organizing my house a bit but a trip to one of our Indie bookstores might be in the works. I’ll keep you posted.
Anyway, I hope you have a great weekend and I would love to hear how your month was. Any big reading plans for May?
I did ok this month, but not as well as the first three months of the year. I gave up on 4 books after reading well over 50 pages, so that set me back a bit. And, I didn’t read any poetry! 🙁 My plan for May is to read from my library loot that I brought home a couple of weeks ago. Lots of comfort reads in my stack, so I’m excited. I’ll get back to reading from my stacks in June.
I find that 2016 is flying in general!
Too bad you didn’t get to finish the Sanchez collection before you had to return it. Glad you were enjoying it though!
Les in NE – Oh I hate it when I “invest” that much time in a book. I feel like I should still count it somehow. Sometimes I keep track of my DNFs but I probably should be better about it. I need to put a stop on my borrowing as well. It’s just so hard isn’t it! 🙂
Kailana – I know, how is that possible?!
Stefanie – I’m so bummed out I didn’t get to finish it. The good thing is that my library has several of her poetry collections so I plan to follow up. So glad I read your post mentioning her.
April seemed to fly by for me too. I’m not sure why — I wasn’t really that busy — but then all of a sudden it was May. Craziness!