April Book Report

April 2021

I finished 12 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

'I feel one shouldn't go into learned societies or libraries smelling of drink,' said Mark, at his most prim. 'It might create the wrong impression.'
'Oh, I hadn't thought of that,' said Miss Clovis, sipping her dark foamy drink. 'I don't suppose anyone would notice. Of course, it's all right for librarians to smell of drink,' she added jovially.

                    --Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym 

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 2 were non-fiction and none were poetry (toward my goal of 10 non-fiction books and some poetry this year) 
• 3 were books I own but hadn't read before (#unreadshelfproject2021) 
• 1 counts toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• none counted toward the Canadian Book Challenge 
• none were from my Classics Club List and none counted toward the Back to the Classics Challenge this month

Here are the books I finished in April 2021: 

1. Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym (3 stars)
2. The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon (audiobook, 3-stars)
3. The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes (3-stars)
4. Tales of Manhattan by Louis Auchincloss (short-stories, 3-stars)
5. Mort by Terry Pratchett (4-stars)
6. Under the Big Top by Bruce Feiler (4-stars)
7. Paw and Order by Spencer Quinn  (audiobook, 3-stars)
8. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (3-stars)
9. Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done by Charlie Gilkey (4-stars) -- I was inspired to read this after hearing the author on the Beyond the To Do List podcast
10. Break In by Dick Francis (4-stars)
11. Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout (3-stars)
12. Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson (4-stars)

I have a classic club book and 2 non-fiction books in progress, one of which is by a Canadian author, and I hope to finish those in May so I will have some progress on those challenges. I abandoned some books in April, including Bring up the Bodies (it was good, but I was not in the right frame of mind for it) and The Liar's Dictionary (which was definitely not for me).