April Favourites: Top 3 Reads This Month

14 books read; these are the three that came out on top

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I started the month of April in a major reading slump. I finished Maas’s A Court of Wings and Ruin and A Court of Silver Flames, then tried to read contemporary literary fiction. What a bust. My main takeaway for the month: after reading YA fantasy predominately, it can be hard to read contemporary and historical fiction.

Remember when I asked if the books I planned on reading this month would live up to the hype. I’m more disappointed than I thought I would be, that’s for sure. For the first two weeks of the month, nothing appealed to me. I grudgingly finished Chang-Rae Lee’s My Year Abroad and started but didn’t finish Gutter Child by Jael Richardson. I returned The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah) and Elizabeth and Margaret (Andrew Morton) without giving them a chance. I knew I wasn’t in the right mindset.

Then, to update my followers and write this article, I checked on my Goodreads challenge progress . . . Was I ending April on a low note?

As it turns out, I wasn’t in a reading slump. I was in a plain old slump. My head was not in the game. I was not on the ball. I hit 50 books without realizing I hit 50 books. If you asked me before I checked, I would’ve said that I read maybe six or ten books this month…