April 2025 Wrap-up

April TBR Pile (32/33):

1. Bookworms BC: (not reading)
2. Friend BC: The Secret Book of Flora Lee by Patti Callahan Henry ✓
3. Friend BC: Her Last Flight by Beatriz William ✓
4. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Dawn by Octavia Butler
5. Kid Book Club: (not reading)
6. Kid Read Aloud: Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo ✓
7. Kid Read Aloud: Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell ✓
8. Kid Read Aloud: Matilda by Roald Dahl ✓
9. Kid Read Aloud: Willodeen by Katherine Applegate ✓
10. Romance: The Demon’s Queen by Katee Robert ✓
11. Romance: Sweet Obsession by Katee Robert ✓
12. Romance: Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson ✓
13. Fantasy: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett ✓
14. Nonfiction: Kinky History by Esme Louise James ✓
15. Nonfiction: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green ✓
16. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 5 ✓
17. Comics: Sex Criminals Vol. 6 ✓
18. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 2 ✓
19. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 3 ✓
20. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 4 ✓
21. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 5 ✓
22. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 6 ✓
23. Comics: Parasyte Vol. 7 ✓
24. Comics: Parayste Vol. 8 ✓
25. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 1 ✓
26. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 2 ✓
27. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 3 ✓
28. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 4 ✓
29. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1 01 ✓
30. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1 02 ✓
31. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1 03 ✓
32. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 2 01 ✓
33. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 2 02 ✓
34. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 2 03 ✓
35. Comics: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 2 04 ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal

Monthly Total: 8971 pages Pages Remaining: 162,551pages

Current Read - Shiver by Junji Ito; The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (3)

I preordered Katee Robert’s newest book, Sweet Obsession.

At Half Price Books, we sold a ton and I only bought two for myself

• The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
• The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 300
• Books Read: 4
• Books Acquired: 3
• Books Unshelved: 0
• Finishing Number: 299

May TBR Pile: Because of our travel plans, I’m really going to wing my TBR this coming month. We’ll see what happens!

Movies Watched

• The Trouble with Jessica
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire
• A Working Man
• Captain America: Brave New World

TV Shows Watched

• Last Week Tonight
• Clone High (2022)
• Below Deck: Down Under
• Interview with a Vampire S1
• Um, Actually
• Alice in Borderland S1
• Kingpin Katie
• Mythic Quest S4
• The Studio
• Game Changer S7
• Dimension 20 S2: Escape from the Bloodkeep
• Leverage: Redemption
• Doctor Who S
• SKZ Code S1
• Stray Kids Two Kids Room (2019) Vol. 4-5
• Stray Cuts (2017)
• SKZ The 9th (2018)
• SKZ & SKZ (2018)
• SKZ Talker (2018-2019)
• SKZ Talker Go (2018-2019)
• Finding Stray Kids (2019)
• CHOISKZ (2019)
• One Kid’s Room (2019-2020)
• Two Kids Room+1 (2020)
• Finding Stray Kids: God Edition (2020)
• Mysterious Kitchen (2021)
• Kingdom: Legendary War (2021)

Comments - Wow! I may have broken my reading brain, but I have really dove into manga and enjoyed the journey. I imagine that May will also be full of manga. And I watched a lot of Stray Kids content for my television time. A worthwhile month.

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