Books read: 6
Compared to usual, I haven’t had a great month for reading. Of the books I did read, my favourite was probably Flame in the Mist, followed by Magpie Murders and How to Stop Time.

• The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – Hannah Tinti
• Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz
• Vinegar Girl – Anne Tyler
• Flame in the Mist – Renee Ahdieh
• How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
• Blood Wedding – Pierre Lemaitre

Books acquired: 5
I spent less on books this month than usual. Three of these books were reduced on Amazon and I got a couple of ARCs from Netgalley. I also put in a couple of pre-orders for May but I haven’t received them yet.

• Flame in the Mist – Renee Ahdieh
• How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
• The Roanoke Girls – Amy Engel
• Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Blog posts published: 9
April was actually my second best month for blogging in terms of visitor stats since I first began blogging in January 2013 – so thanks everyone for reading my posts and chatting to me! Unsurprisingly, my giveaway of A Court of Wings and Ruin was the most popular post. Other top posts were my discussion post looking at what makes fan fiction and a review of Hannah Tinti’s The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley.

• Top 5: 2017 releases I’m most looking forward to
• March wrap-up
• Giveaway post: A Court of Wings and Ruin
• The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
• The Hangman’s Daughter – Gavin Smith
• ACOTAR/ACOMAF re-read (and giveaway)
• What is ‘fan fiction’?
• Caraval – Stephanie Garber
• The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – Hannah Tinti

 TBR for May:
Realistically I don’t think I’ll get around to reading the last one on this list, as it’s been on my TBR list since January. But you never know, May might be the month I finally get to it. I’m already part way through The Green Road, so hopefully should finish this one off quite quickly.

• A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J Maas
• The Green Road – Anne Enright
• House of Names – Colm Tobin
• The Ice – Laline Paull
• Into the Water – Paula Hawkins
• The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss

Challenge progress:

Goodreads Challenge: My Goodreads reading goal is to read 50 books this year. I’ve now completed 27 books – meaning that I’m currently ahead of schedule by 11 books. (27/50)

Beat the Backlist Challenge: The Beat the Backlist challenge is all about knocking off titles that have been on your TBR for a while. Books need to have been published prior to 2017, and I’m only including books that I actually bought before 2017 and that have been sitting around waiting for me to read them – so no new purchases or library reads.

This month, none of my reads qualified, so my total remains at just two books towards a goal of twelve. (2/12)

How was your April? Did you read anything great? What do you have planned to read in May?