Until next year, April! What a crazy busy month at home and work. I’m glad a new month is coming around and while I don’t think all of a sudden all of the demands will go away, it’s exciting to look forward to a new month. Despite all the busy-ness, my reading went pretty well as I finished six books.

Here are the books I read:

I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh
Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden
The Crooked Inheritance by Marge Piercy
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
Snap by Belinda Bauer
Something New by Lucy Knisley

My two favorites were the poetry collection by Marge Piercy and the thriller by C.J. Tudor. It’s not a surprise to me either that the books I fell back on were mainly mystery/thrillers. At least I did branch out a bit and enjoyed two graphic novels.

So while I didn’t get to post much this month there was a lot of reading going on. I have been enjoying several magazines which have piled up on my nightstand. Lots of World Literature Today and Art Journaling editions.

Did you guys do anything to celebrate World Book Day? I took advantage of the Amazon Read the World promotion and added several new books to my Kindle.

Alright now it’s time to get back to reading. Hope you are all having a wonderful week and here’s to joyful month ahead!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend. Ours was low-key which was so nice given that last week was quite hectic. It all started off with my mom falling and spraining a foot. Luckily she is ok but that was scary and of course she’s been hobbling a bit as she recoups. So I was helping her a bit more with daily things. To top it off my work was all sorts of madness but I was so happy when one of my dear friends ended up coming to Austin for work and we were able to visit for a bit. We caught up over dinner and even enjoyed a delicious wine.

The rest of the weekend was a bit of a blur. We did go to the bookstore but believe it or not, I didn’t buy anything. I wanted to find a book on sketching but nothing caught my eye. Speaking of sketching, I don’t draw but that’s one thing I wish I could do well, so I’ve signed up for a free trial on Skillshare. Have you heard about it? They have some neat classes. I haven’t had a chance to take many but I am doing a course on Urban Sketching. If you’ve taken classes through it let me know if there are any you recommend.

On the reading front I feel like I didn’t make much progress over the weekend but I did finish Snap by Belinda Bauer today. This was a book I had set aside because I couldn’t get into and decided to give it another go. I’m glad I did because I quite enjoyed it.

So I’m way behind on visiting your blogs, posting reviews or posting in general but one of these days I’ll get back into the groove. Thank you for hanging in there with me!