April 2022 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

I’m running a day late with this, but it’s that kind of week (I’m just glad I got to this before Friday). In April I finished 23 books, for 5904 pages (or the equivalent), and I gave them an average of 3.8 stars. That’s nothing to sneeze at–a better month than March, too. And that’s with two books under 3 stars.

This month was longer than I realized it was, looking over the list of books from this month, I was thrown a couple of times–I read that this month?

So, here’s what happened here in April.
Books/Novels/Novellas Read/Listened to

Still Reading

Ratings

	2		1
	2		1
	11		0
	4		0
	2
		Average =	3.8

TBR Stacks/Piles/Heaps

Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 19
Self-/Independent Published: 4

Review-ish Things Posted

• Catch-Up Quick Takes: Some Audiobooks from Feb. & March 2022
• Recovering Our Sanity: How the Fear of God Conquers the Fears that Divide Us by Michael Horton
• Payback Is Forever by Nick Kolakowski: There’s a lot of opportunity in doom.
• Duckett & Dyer: Dicks For Hire by G.M. Nair: No case too tough. No case too crazy.
• Citizen K-9 by David Rosenfelt: Things Get Personal for the Team with this Cold Case
• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi: Delivers Everything the Title Promises
• What Are Christians For? Life Together at the End of the World by Jake Meador: A View for Living in Culture and Nature
• Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian: A Modern Take on a Classic Mystery
• Constance Verity Destroys the Universe by A. Lee Martinez: Saying Good-Bye to this Hero
• 20/20 (Audiobook) by Carl Goodman, Louise Brealy: A New DI Finds Herself in a Disturbing Investigation
• Instruction in Christian Love by Martin Bucer, Paul Traugott Fuhrmann (Translator): A 16th Century Classic We Need Today
• The Cutting Season by M. W. Craven: A Fast, Satisfying Read in this Dynamite Series
• Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch: Fear, and Surprise, and Ruthless Efficiency, and two Births.
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger: A Summer In the Valley of the Shadow of Death
• Old Made New by Greg Lanier: A Practical and Engaging Guide for Laypeople
• Force of Nature (Audiobook) by C.J. Box, David Chandler (Narrator): Wyoming Requiem
• Blessed Are the Bank Robbers by Chas Smith: Not as Catchy as a Story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue
• How to Be Perfect (Audiobook) by Michael Schur: Being Ethical/Virtuous and Funny at the Same Time
• Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker: A Curmudgeon to the Rescue?

Other Things I Wrote
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th), I also wrote:

• Highlights from March: Lines Worth Repeating
• First Quarter Check-In: 2022 Plans and Challenges
• Book Blogger Hop: Reader Burnout?
• Book Blogger Hop: Favorite Books?
• Nero Wolfe on Taxes
• Book Blogger Hop: Book Jackets On or Off?
• Spelling the month: April
• Book Blogger Hop: From Beginning to End?
• Opening Lines: Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker
• WWW Wednesday for April 6, April 13, April 20, and April 27, 2028.
• The Friday 56 for 4/1/22 (The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi), 4/8/22 (Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian), 4/15/22 (The Cutting Season by M.W. Craven), and 4/29/22 (A Mint Condition Corpse by Duncan MacMaster).

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?