Monday, May 6, 2019

The Read-at-Home Mom Report: April 2019

I had hoped to slow down my reading a bit this past month so that I wouldn't be so far ahead of my Goodreads challenge goal. But then I received a bunch of picture books for review and my husband was able to find some good vintage Let's Read and Find Out About Science books on inter-library loan, and I finally decided I would just increase my Goodreads goal to allow for the fact that I'm probably always going to read 20 picture books per month. My current goal number is set at 425, and I'm prepared to increase it again at mid-year if necessary.  I also decided not to continue with the Mount TBR challenge.



Books Read



Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

by Rachel Field
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Fantasy (middle grade)
Source: Personal collection
Review: On the blog (⭐⭐⭐⭐)


The Seven Storey Mountain 

by Thomas Merton
Format: Paperback
Genre: Autobiography/Catholic
Source: Inter-library loan
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)


Unplanned 

by Abby Johnson
Format: Audiobook
Genre: Memoir 
Source: Public library (via Hoopla)
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐)


So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018

by Ursula K. Leguin
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Poetry
Source: Public library
Review: On Goodreads (⭐)


The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book

by Wendy Welch
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Memoir
Source: Public library
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Solo 

by Kwame Alexander, with Mary Rand Hess
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Realistic fiction/poetry (YA)
Source: Public library
Review: On the blog (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Format: Hardcover
Genre: Fantasy 
Source: Personal collecton
Follow my #YearOfHarryPotter on the blog (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)


Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

by Billy Collins
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Poetry
Source: Personal collection
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

by Billy Collins
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Poetry
Source: Personal collection
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Murder with Puffins

by Donna Andrews
Format: Audiobook
Genre: Cozy mystery
Source: Public library
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh
Format: Paperback
Genre: Literary fiction
Source: Personal collection
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

by Paul Elie
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Nonfiction
Source: Public library
Review: On Instagram (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Screwtape Letters 

by C.S. Lewis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Religious
Source: Personal collection
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Way of the Cross

by Caryll Houselander
Format: Ebook
Genre: Religious
Source: Public library (Hoopla Digital app)
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Bel Canto

by Ann Patchett
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Literary fiction
Source: Public library
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Come Sing, Jimmy Jo

by Katherine Paterson
Format: Hardcover/Audiobook
Genre: Realistic fiction (middle grade)
Source: Personal collection
Review: On the blog (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Archy and Mehitabel

by Don Marquis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Source: Public library
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐)

Follow My Leader

by James B. Garfield
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Realistic fiction
Source: Personal collection 
Review: On the blog (⭐⭐⭐)

Prince Caspian 

by C.S. Lewis
Format: Hardcover/Audiobook
Genre: Fantasy
Source: Personal collection
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐)

The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

by Julie Bogart
Format: Ebook
Genre: Nonfiction
Source: Public library (via Cloud Library)
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐)

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff
Format: Paperback
Genre: Nonfiction
Source: Public library
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

by Anne Bogel
Format: Audiobook
Genre: Nonfiction
Source: Public library (Hoopla Digital app)
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐)

Everything I Never Told You 

by Celeste Ng
Format: Audiobook
Genre: Literary fiction
Source: Public library (Libby app)
Review: On Goodreads (⭐⭐⭐)

Picture Books (with links to Goodreads reviews):


Blog Posts Published

  • Alphabet Soup: 1 read in April, 19 of 26 read total 
  • Alphabet Soup Author Edition: 1 read in April, 19 of 26 read total
  • #CathLit: 3 read in April, 11 of 19 read total
  • Cloak and Dagger: 1 read in April, 24 of 55 read total
  • Craving for Cozies: 1 read in April, 16 of 51 read total
  • Library Love: 13 read in April, 32 of 60 read total
  • RMFAO Audiobooks: 7 read in April, 25 of 25 read total
  • Goodreads Goal: 44 read in April, 163 of 425 read total
I'll be linking up this post for It's Monday! What Are You Reading? with The Book Date and Unleashing Readers/Teach Mentor Texts and for the April 2019 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up at Feed Your Fiction Addiction. 

9 comments:

  1. I enjoyed The Little Bookstore at Big Stone Gap too

    Have a great reading week

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  2. Nice variety of books. I've been feeling a lack of picture books in my life since I retired. I'm planning to sit at the public library and binge on them one of these days. I'm way ahead of my Goodreads goal too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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  3. Hitty is an old favorite children's book and I liked The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap. Le Guin & Collins are favorite poets, though I'm not sure I've read So Far, So Good. Nice list of picture books, too. I've read beyond my goal, too, but will let it stay for a while. Thanks!

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  4. I really love seeing all the poetry books here. :) And yes, you've done a whole LOT of reading. I enjoyed Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and keep meaning to read this other title. :)

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  5. OMG, you read so many books I love, including Merton's autobiography. I don't often see him mentioned on book blogs! Have you read any other book by him? I have read and loved many of them, but that was in my "previous life", before being a book blogger. His poems are very good too.

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  6. I'm placing Brideshead Revisited on my wishlist through the college. This sounds really good! And your #YearOfHarryPotter is tempting me to start re-reading the series this next year. That's frustrating news about The Brave Learner. If only I could hire a cleaning service to simplify life with all our home learners. HA! Have a great reading month, Katie!

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  7. I don't think you need to worry about going over your goal. Just be happy about it! :-) Looks like you've read some great books this year. I'm off to go read your review of Solo...

    Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction

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  8. I think it's awesome how many books you can read and review for authors. I read everything Kwame Alexander writes. I even listened to an audiobook of his and enjoyed it.

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