April 2020 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

Well, this is more like it: 25 titles, 7290+ pages (there was one e-short story that I didn’t get a page count on)—three thousand more than March. My average rating for the month was 3.56, which isn’t exactly my goal—but it still means I enjoyed just about everything I consumed. I’ve made a more concerted effort to make time to read over the last couple of weeks—and it seems to be paying off.

As with just about every person on the planet, I have no idea what the next month is really going to look like for me day-to-day (and I’m not sure I could tell you what it was like the last month…), so I’m not going to pretend to have an idea what I’ll be reading/writing about. We’ll see, right?

So, here’s what happened here in April.

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		Average =	3.56

“Traditionally” Published: 14
Self-/Independent Published: 11

• The Immortal Conquistador by Carrie Vaughn: Just who is the Vampire Rick, Anyway?
• Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs: Mercy Deals with Unexpected Threats from Every Direction
• Pub Day Post: A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones: Now that’s a first day on the job
• We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker: Hunting for Hope (and Life?) in a Hopeless Place
• Pub Day Post: Cheater’s Game by Paul Levine: Things Get Personal for this Defense Attorney
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK IV., xiv-BOOK V., viii.
• The Identity Thief by Alex Bryant: A Contemporary Hunt for Centuries-Old Power
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK V., ix.-xii.
• Quick Takes on Some Quick Reads: The Time Traveler’s Guide to Dating; Ice by Neil Lancaster; Shall We Gather by Alex Bledsoe
• The Poop Diaries by Abby Ross: These Plumbers have Seen and Smelled it All.
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK VI., i.-iv.
• Robert B. Parker’s Grudge Match by Mike Lupica: Sunny Randall’s Forced to Work for an Enemy as Lupica Settles into the Series
• The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp, Manuel Preitano (Illustrator): A Young Barbara Gordon’s First Case
• Fake Truth by Lee Goldberg: Ian Ludlow, Fake News, and the Return of the Soviet Union?
• Pub Day Post: Of Honey and Wildfires by Sarah Chorn: Love, Family, and Loss in a Western-Flavored Fantasy

Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th)

• • Dryad Teas Inspired by the Dresden Files
  • The Stay at Home Book Tag
  • The Wanderlust Book Tag
  • Down the TBR Hole (4 of 24+)
  • Top 5 Saturday: Sibling Relationships
  • Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Books That Made Me Laugh
  • A Few Quick Questions With…Like the Wolfe Podcast (2 firsts for me: a podcast not an author, and 2 people responding) and Paul Levine (still don’t believe I got him to particpate)
  • WWW Wednesday for April 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th.

How was your month?