2022: April wrap-up

APRIL 2022 WRAP-UP

April was a super busy month, tons of teaching hours and a lot of time in Church (Great Lent, Great Week, Pascha), which often would leave me very tired for my usual evening reading hours.
So this is the most pathetic month. I can’t even recall a month where I would have read so few pages… Though at least I have almost reviewed them all!
But my first three months were full of books, so I’m still 8 books ahead of schedule (39% done) to read 120 books this year.

I note that of the 7 books I read 3 are in French and 3 were translated from other languages. Quite characteristic.

I wasn’t able to participate in memes, but I hope to be restarting this coming week.

📚 Here is what I read in April:

7 books:
4 in print 
with 823 pages, a daily average of 27 pages/day
3 in audio
= 24H30
, a daily average of 49 minutes

5 in mystery:

  1. Death Going Down, by Maria Angelica Bosco – For the #1954Club
  2. Code Lupin, by Michel Bussi – French audiobook
  3. Vanda, by Marion Brunet – received for review
  4. Code 612: Qui a tué le Petit Prince ?, by Michel Bussi – French audiobook
  5. The Man in the Queue, by Josephine Tey – my Spin for The Classics Club

1 in science-fiction:

  1. Nouvelle Babel, by Michel Bussi – French audiobook

1 in literary fiction:

  1. Moshi Moshi, by Banana Yoshimoto

Yes, you read that right, 3 audiobooks by Michel Bussi!

MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH

Vanda The Man in the Queue

READING CHALLENGES & RECAP

Classics Club: 115/137 (from November 2020-until November 2025)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 9/12 books – During the year: 10
2022 TBR Pile Reading Challenge: 0/12 books
2022 books in translation reading challenge
: 16/10+

Total of books read in 2022 = 47/120 (39%)
Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 3

 NO OTHER BOOK  REVIEWED THIS PAST MONTH

NO GIVEAWAYS

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MOST POPULAR BOOK REVIEW THIS PAST MONTH

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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MOST POPULAR POST THIS PAST MONTH
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My top 8 books for the 1954 Club

BOOK BLOG THAT BROUGHT ME MOST TRAFFIC THIS PAST MONTH

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Come back tomorrow to see the titles I’ll be reading in May

How was YOUR month of APRIL?

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Nicole at Feed Your Fiction Addiction
has created a Month In Review meme
where you can link your monthly recap posts
Thanks Nicole!

40 thoughts on “2022: April wrap-up

  1. Ça va et ça vient. Mai sera mieux. (En Mai fais ce qu’il te plaît)
    120 livres? C’est pas mal. personnellement je ne me mets pas d’objectif. je lis un maximum. Et voilà.
    Mon dernier livre en Français: Frédéric Dard, Les salauds vont en enfer. beaucoup vieilli. Pas trop plu.

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  2. Don’t be so hard on yourself. To have read 7 books is good. I did 11 this months, and that is a very good month for me. More so, since 7 of them came from my own shelves, and 6 of them were nonfiction. I am into a history spree for the moment. I see you have read some of my favourite mystery writers, Bussi and Tey. Always a pleasure. I wish I could read Bussi in French, but alas.

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