April Wrap-Up and May TBR

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a lovely May. How are your reading and writing journeys going?

I was able to read 10 books in April, as well as continuing my progress on my BookTube channel. My novel is percolating on a back burner. 🙂

here’s what I read in April:

5 star reads – highly recommend!

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co. #2) by Jonathan Stroud
I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race – edited by Jesmyn Ward
The Bush Still Burns: How Spirituality and Organizing Transformed a Pastor and Congregation by Terry Allen Moe

4 star reads

Rebel (Women Who Dare #1) by Beverly Jenkins
The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur #1) by Elly Griffiths
Evil Dead Center: A Mystery by Carole laFavor

3.5 star reads

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

For May …

I am reading the following – composed of books chosen by prompts in the #asianreadathon, winners of Edgar Awards in 2021, and a few other bonus books:

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong
Even This Page is White by Vivek Shraya
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart
Who’s Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing by Arnie Graf
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B.Alston

What have you been reading? What do you recommend? Do you agree/disagree with my ratings?

You can check out my YouTube Videos here for more in depth reviews – (most recent on top):