The books I read this month were:
Tiger Claws by John Speed 3/5
The Gilded Web by Mary Balogh 4/5
Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry 4/5
Marked by PC Cast and Kristin Cast 4/5
Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon 3/5
Don't Bargain with a Devil by Sabrina Jeffries 4.5/5
Coraline by Neil Gaiman 4.5/5
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan 4.5/5
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner 4/5
The Swan Maiden by Jules Watson 5/5
Miranda's Big Mistake by Jill Mansell 4.5/5
The best book was The Swan Maiden by Jules Watson, and the biggest disappointment was Tiger Claws by John Speed.
I didn't do any reviews for April, although I do have a couple that are nearly ready to post! I think it is safe to say that this is a blog about books mostly these days. It's certainly not a review blog anymore!
It wasn't a bad month for reading challenges either.I managed to read two books for the Book Awards Reading Challenge II - Shaun Tan's book was the Winner of the 2008 Aurealis Award for Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel, and Coraline by Neil Gaiman won a whole bunch of awards when it came out.
For the Library Challenge, I have now read 36 books, so only 14 books left to go before I have completed this challenge, and for the 100+ Challenge I have completed 49 out of the 50 books required. Given that I have more than 60 books out from the library at the moment, I should be able to read both of these targets!
This month I read 3 Chunksters - Comanche Moon is 752 pages long, The Swan Maiden is 540 pages and Miranda's Big Mistake is 475 pages long. Only one more book to go and that challenge is complete.
It was a good month for the 2009 Pub challenge as well. The Swan Maiden and Don't Bargain with a Devil are both books that were (or are going to be) first published in 2009. Five more books to go in this challenge. Silver Phoenix was also just released but because it is a YA book it doesn't count for this challenge.
This month I read five books that would count for Once Upon a Time III - Marked, Silver Phoenix, Coraline, Silver Phoenix and The Thief - so in effect I have done all the reading I need to do to call this challenge complete! Yay!
Finally, I did join one new challenge this month - the Love Bites challenge. I think that Marked fits the criteria, so that is one book down, two to go on that challenge.
I was going to do my Library Loot post in this post as well, but I think I will save that for later today instead.
I think the nature of what I blog has changed too Marg, without me being aware of it, or meaning it too happen. Reviews only account for about 25% of my posts now.
ReplyDeleteI seem to be seeing The Silver Phoenix everywhere lately - sounds fab.
ReplyDeleteYou're doing so well with challenges, especially the chunkster. That's quite a page count.
Looks like you're close to being finished quite a few of them!
ReplyDeleteEven if you didn't read as many books as you usually do, you read quite a lot of good ones! It always feels great to strike a chunkster or two off the list, too.
ReplyDeleteWell done!
ReplyDeleteLezlie
Congrats on all that you've done on your challenge and I hope you enjoy many more new challenges too :)
ReplyDeleteGreat list of books you read!
Thanks Julia and Lezlie.
ReplyDeleteMemory, there is definitely a sense of achievement associated with finishing off a chunkster.
Chris, I have a couple of challenges that I am a little concerned about, but most of them should be okay.
Jodie, Cindy Pon is certainly putting a lot of effort into marketing Silver Phoenix.
Kerrie, I think it is inevitable that there will be some changes. I just need to make more of an effort when it comes to actually writing reviews. I start them all, just don't finish many.
Congrats on a great month!
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