Monthly Wrap-Up: April Reading 2024

April Reading 2024

It’s once again another month, which means it’s time for another wrap-up! This is a few days later than I had wanted – I’d originally wanted to get this out last weekend. Buuut… I was out of town, you know? Anyway, this monthly wrap-up regarding my reading for April 2024 features my reading stats from The StoryGraph, as per usual.

My reading has been much better than the previous few months – even March. I read 6 books! Which is such a big improvement compared to one or two or none at all. So yeah, I’m kind of satisfied with my reading last month.

Anyway, let’s get on with the reading wrap-up!

April Reading 2024

😐 MOODS: The reading Moods were varied this past month. Adventurous was of course the biggest chunk of the pie in April, but Lighthearted, Mysterious and Dark were also pretty big slices. Tense and Funny were the smallest parts though.

πŸ‘’ PACE: My books from last month were all three kinds of paces: fast, medium and slow.

πŸ”’ PAGE NUMBER: I read a lot of books with different page numbers. But everything I read was between 100 and 650 pages.

πŸ“– FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction this month.

🎭 GENRES: So many Genres in April. Of course, Fantasy was the biggest one – it was the only Genre that was applied to every book I read. Manga surprised me at being the second biggest one, though I probably shouldn’t have been. The third biggest Genre was Young Adult, and then the rest of them were all applicable to one book each and were therefore the smallest lines.

πŸ“„ FORMAT: This little StoryGraph pie chart is almost correct for April. I only read one ebook though.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 3.42. The ratings I gave were between 2.25 stars and 4.25 stars, with two of the ratings being 4.0 stars.

πŸ“‰ PAGES READ DAILY: I didn’t read as much as I’d have liked during the first week or so of April, but I really started reading after that. My highest reading peak was during the 9th thru the 16th, but I had little reading spikes after that for the rest of the month.

The Books I Read in Aprll

One Piece: Skypiea Arc (Volumes 25, 26 & 27) by Eiichiro Oda

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One Piece: Skypiea Arc (Volumes 28, 29 & 30) by Eiichiro Oda

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One Piece: Skypiea Arc (Volumes 31, 32 & 33) by Eiichiro Oda

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Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens

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Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw

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Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

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Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, I improved my reading stats for April! Just like I had intended to do. I’m hoping I read even more this month, and the months that are coming up the rest of 2024 too.

May has a couple of books releasing that I’m interested in, but I still have a couple new releases  from April that I haven’t read yet that I still might check out as well. My spouse and I are still making our way through One Piece, and are planning on reading the next arc this month too. I’m so glad we started reading it again – it’s a fun and easy read and it got me out of my slump! Though… I’ve had a bit of a mini-slump happening for the past few days, but I’m chalking that up to reading two 2.5 star novels in a row plus the going out of town thing last weekend.

So yeah, thank you to everyone for reading, and I hope you have an awesome day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Birthstone Book Covers: April 2024

Hey all! How’s everyone been doing? Reading a lot of good books, I hope!

Leslie @ Books Are the New Black created a fun monthly post called Birthstone Book Covers. Each month, she features book covers that are either the same color of that month’s birthstone or include the color in the title.

April has one birthstone – Diamond.

Diamond is a weird birthstone to do this post for. A lot of people have trouble with it, I’ve noticed. The norm seems to be picking books with white covers, though even that can be difficult sometimes. I know I had trouble with it last year. But for whatever reason, I didn’t struggle at all with April this time around.

Rules:

πŸ“š Mention the creator (Leslie @ Books Are The New Black ) and link back to her so she can check out your post.
πŸ“š Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone.
πŸ“š HAVE FUN!
πŸ“š Nominate people if you want!

Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Tithe by Holly Black
The Whisper Man by Alex North
The Lost World by Michael Crichton