April Book Report

April 2022, Concord, NH

I finished 13 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

"But Dickens was not a cool customer. He was, in fact, a ripsnorting, raging, egotistical cad, and if he had not also been a supremely great writer he would have been intolerable." --Roberson Davies, "Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto," in One Half of Robertson Davies

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 4 were non-fiction (toward my goal of 25 non-fiction books this year) and 1 counted toward the NonFiction Reader Challenge 
• 2 were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none was poetry (my goal of reading 4 poetry books this year is not coming along too well so far)
•  4 counted toward the Canadian Book Challenge which I have now completed for the current year (this challenge begins and ends on Canada Day)
• 2 were from my Classics Club List and 1 counted toward Back to the Classics

• 3 counted toward the Cruisin' Through the Cozies challenge 
• 1 counted toward the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• none counted toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• 1 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• none were for my Century of Books project

 Here are the books I finished in April 2022: 

1. Death in Cornwall by G. M. Malliett (4-stars)
2. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield  (audiobook, 5-stars)
3. Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction by Neal Wyatt (4-stars)
4. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster (4-stars)
5. The Art of Falling: A Novel by Danielle McLaughlin (3-stars)
6. One Half of Robertson Davies by Robertson Davies (3-stars)
7. Murder Your Darlings by J. J. Murphy (3-stars)
8. Women Writers at Work by The Paris Review (3-stars)
9. Lust for Life by Irving Stone (4-stars)
10. Blizzard of Glass by Sally M. Walker (4-stars)
11. Live and Let Chai by Bree Baker (audiobook, 3-stars)
12. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (4-stars)
13. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (5-stars)

This was a good reading month: I finished a challenge; read two 5-star books, and got to wrap up the month with a whole day of reading.