April 2021 WRAP-UP
Phew, this was a busy month, ending with a liturgical marathon, as we finally had our Great Week (Orthodox services are so deep and powerful, and also quite long, especially during this very special week) and Pascha (aka Easter), almost a month after everyone else.
I have been also reading a lot, as much needed time off at the end of the day, but as I’m in the middle of so many books, my stats are actually not very impressive.
The big news was my first participation ever in the Club organized by Simon at Stuck in a Book. This time, in was the #1936Club.
Two other big highlights were
my buddy read of Before the Coffee Gets Cold,
and the beginning of another buddy read: The Archipelago of Another Life
📚 Here is what I read in April:
18 books:
6 in print
= with 1,377 pages, a daily average of 45 pages/day
12 in audio
= 24H39, a daily average of 49 minutes
9 in nonfiction:
- The Book of Micah
- The Book of Joel
- The Book of Obadiah
- The Book of Jonah
- The Book of Nahum
- The Book of Habakkuk
- The Book of Zephaniah
- The Book of Haggai – these first 8 books were as audiobooks, for The Classics Club and the Books in Translation Challenge
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, by George Saunders
5 in mystery:
- Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot #18), by Agatha Christie
- Appointment With Death (Hercule Poirot #19), by Agatha Christie
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Hercule Poirot #20), by Agatha Christie – these first three were as audiobooks, for The Classics Club
- Double Indemnity, by James M. Cain – ebook for the #1936Club and The Classics Club
- Piège pour Cendrillon, by Sébastien Japrisot – French ebook for the The Classics Club
2 in literary fiction:
- The Old Capital, by Yasunari Kawabata – ebook for The Classics Club
- First Person Singular, by Haruki Murakami
1 in historical fiction:
- The Swedish Cavalier, by Leo Perutz – ebook for the #1936Club and The Classics Club
1 in science-fiction:
- How to Mars, by David Ebenbach – ebook received for review
MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH
READING CHALLENGES & RECAP
Classics Club: 47/137 (from November 2020-until November 2025)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 12 books
Total of books read in 2021 = 60/120 (yes, already at 50%!)
Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 11
OTHER BOOK REVIEWED THIS PAST MONTH
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How was YOUR month of April?
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