April Book Report

The Book Farm, Henniker, NH
April 2023

I finished 7 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 2 were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• 1 counted toward the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge 
• none were from my Classics Club List 
• 1 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• none counted toward the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge -- the Elizabeth Peters could have, but I am trying to read mostly non-mysteries for this challenge.
• none counted toward the 2023 What's in a Name Challenge
• none were from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• 2 were from the mystery series I am trying to make progress on this year

 Here are the books I finished in April 2023:

1. Remembering Orwell by Stephan Wadhams (4-stars)
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (5-stars)
3. Belize by Leslie Jermyn (4-stars)
4. Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters (5-stars)
5. Deep Work by Cal Newport (4-stars)
6. Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris (audio, 4-stars)
7. Final Account by Peter Robinson (3-stars)

I visited a new used bookstore this month -- The Book Farm, which was delightful. I added 2 titles to my shelves and will visit again. There are now 2 great bookstores (Old #6 Book Depot being the other one), a fabulous quilt shop and a very good brewery in Henniker making it a great choice for a day trip.