Month In Review

This month I fell into a bit of a reading slump. And because of that, I thought I didn't get much reading done until I started writing this post and realized that I didn't do so bad.  That is all thanks to a reading sprint at the beginning of the month and one at the end.  Here are the books I read this month with their GoodReads ratings:

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison *****
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed *****
Dreaming of Elsewhere by Esi Edugyan *****
Adventures in Saying Yes by Carl Medearis ****
The Mother and Child Project by Kay Warren ****
The Year of Taking Chances by Lucy Diamond ****
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen ****
AsapSCIENCE by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown ****

Challenges

 Canadian Book Challenge (3), Diversity on the Shelf (3)

What I'm Looking Forward to in May

  I decided that for the month of May I will be reading only from books I already own.  I was never one to have a very big physical TBR pile, I would always read books as soon as I bought them.  But lately that hasn't been the case and it's been getting out of hand.  So in May it will only be books I own.  I'm looking forward to it!

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 30, 2015 at 6:07 AM

    ASAP Science looks really interesting to me. My kid is on a real science kick right now and I'd love to have interesting factoids for her.

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    1. ShanApril 30, 2015 at 9:05 PM

      This is a great book, it's fascinating for kids and adults. I'm was never good at science but I find it interesting the way science works in the every day things.

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  2. CaroGMay 1, 2015 at 11:52 AM

    You had a great reading month and good job on your challenges too!

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  3. UnknownMay 6, 2015 at 8:24 PM

    I can't wait to read God Help the Child. It won't be for a while because my TBR list is massive already! I'm gonna go check out your post on it now :-)

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