There's not going to be much to this post. I think I'm in kind of a reading slump. There's usually always something I'm reading. I read a book, write a review and move on to the next one fairly quickly. But there's about a 2 week gap where I read...nothing. It was both nice and frustrating. And it's not like I'm in a slump because the books I've been reading have been bad. I haven't had one, though it's not like there's a lot to pick from, that I didn't fully enjoy this month. I just can't seem to get enthusiastic about reading or blog type things. I normally have at least 10, usually more, posts scheduled at any given time. For the last few weeks it's been 2 tops. I'm hoping to shake this soon. Sigh.
So here's what happened on the blog:
April 2015
I reviewed:
Yours Completely (Reign #2) by Joya Ryan
Apollyon (Covenant #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Once Upon A Dare by Jennifer Bonds
Say My Name (Stark International Trilogy #1) by J. Kenner
Sentinel (Covenant #5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Deal (Off-Campus #1) by Elle Kennedy
The Truth About Jack by Jody Gehrman
Aimee and the Heartthrob (Backstage Pass #1) by Ophelia London
Just for Appearances (Lake Bliss #2) by Jenna Rutland
Changing His Game (Gamers #1) by Megan Erickson
Getting Lucky Number Seven by Cindi Madsen
Favorite read of April:
The Deal (Off-Campus #1) by Elle Kennedy
Though honestly every book that I started and finished in April was really good. So even my least favorite pick is still going to be a good one just not as high on the list as the other 10ish books I read.
Oh. I'm pretty excited about one thing from this month...I finally finished my first audiobook!! I have tried in the past but I'm very picky about a person's voice and how they read the books. Plus when I'm listening I tend to get easily distracted or my mind will wander as opposed to when I actually have to string the words together into sentences and make my brain make sense of everything myself. But I recently got this and freaking loved it and couldn't stop listening!
If you are a fan of the movie I cannot recommend this enough. It was perfect for the fangirl in me plus listening to Cary Elwes speak, sigh. Anyway this should also be in the favorites section! I will be listening to it again. Soon!
Least favorite read of April:
Just for Appearances (Lake Bliss #2) by Jenna Rutland
Even though it's my least favorite read I still think it's worth a read :)
Weekly Memes:
Top Ten Tuesday #57 Characters I'd Like To Check In With
Top Ten Tuesday #58 Inspiring Quotes From Books
Top Ten Tuesday #59 ALL TIME Favorite Authors
Swoon Thursday #46 - Apollyon
Swoon Thursday #47 | That's What HE Said Thursday #28 - Sentinel
Challenge Progress:
My series read for April:
Big. Fat. Fail...
I think I know what the problem was for this one. I had totally planned on reading The Grisha series for April. I even went as far as finishing Shadow and Bone and starting Siege and Storm. And the reason that I haven't kept going is definitely not because I did not like them. Matter of fact I loved the first book and was enjoying the next one. I think...maybe.... it's because February I pushed real hard read a bunch of review books and on top of that binged through the entire Bloodlines series. March I read a bunch of review books and then I also binged on the entire Covenant series. That's a whole lot of books and series to binge read. I think I'm on a series burnout. Here's hoping May will be better.
I actually did get one of these completed for April bringing my grand total to 15/50!
So that's it for April. I'm actually feeling a lot more motivation brewing for May. I certainly hope so because I'm feeling like such a slacker. I guess we all need a little bit of time to decompress and do...nothing. Well I'm off to go read some review books. Happy Friday everyone!!
I also failed at my series for April. I'm trying to do 2 series for May to make up for it... we'll see how that goes. I'm almost done binging the wallflowers series (seriously i'm obsessed). I do want to check out that audiobook!! And, also, i hope you continue the grisha series! it's one of my faves. although siege and storm was slower than the other 2, the series is so good.
ReplyDeleteI gave up for this month as well. Hopefully I can do something in June. I think I am seriously just on a binge burnout because the first 2 series were like 5 & 6 books so my brain is like ENOUGH! It's not even that I was finding Siege and Storm slow either I'm just in a funk but I WILL finish it one of these days because I have to know how it ends!!!
ReplyDeleteOh and I'm gonna have to check out the wallflowers series because I haven't read many Lisa Kleypas books but I did like what I read in the past!! Sooooo glad you're loving HR :D