My Reading Wrap-up for April 2022

Where the heck did all the time go?

I didn’t do half as much reading as I had hoped..
But there have been a handful of futile attempts to bring our yard under control.

It’s been one of those months where reality demands your attention, time, and patience.
You know how it is.

That is not to say, however, that nothing has happened..

Blog update:

I’ve started the process of giving my blog a make-over. It’s time. So you may notice some changes over the next few weeks as we get all of that sorted out. (Barring any complications that arise, of course)
It’s been exciting.. and frustrating. We’re having to figure out WTH we’re doing along the way but I can’t wait to see what we come up with and share it with you!

I’ve also had several of you (you know who you are) suggest creating a separate social media account that’s specifically for my blog, which does make a lot sense, so I’ll likely be looking into doing that as well. Not really excited about it. I’d like less social media in my life.. not more.

Wish me luck?

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Three books completed:

The Return by Rachel Harrison
Strangers We Know by Elle Marr
Verity by Colleen Hoover

Just started reading:

(ARC) Aurora by David Koepp
Release date: June 7, 2022

I picked this book up and only made it a few chapters in before forgetting it at home..
Now I’m completely absorbed in another book and feel compelled, obsessed even, with finishing it first.

In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.

Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.

Across the country lives Aubrey’s estranged brother, Thom. A fantastically wealthy, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security.

But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckonings—which not everyone will survive . . .

And also..
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

My current addiction.
Have you read this? I wasn’t sure about it because of all the hype, which tends to be misleading, but damn..
I am such a sucker for a good ghost story.

Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.

But there will be no turning back.

Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:

They are not alone.

They’re looking for the truth…
But what if it finds them first?

Two books I won in giveaways:

God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney
Deadman by J.H. Smithson