Friday, May 23, 2025

*Platypire Read-A-Thon* April 2025 Results


April has been over for almost an entire month, which means it's long past time time to see how my reading went for the rest of the month. You may remember that I didn't build the initial post until the month was already halfway over, so I already had some books listed as read from the start. But let's see what else I finished this month. 

Reviewed
Read
Currently Reading
To Be Read

Reviewed

Read

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell (March '25)
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (March '25) 
Countdown by Johan Ottosen (March '25)
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis (March '25)
Gild by Raven Kennedy
Cross My Heart by Megan Collins (April '25)
I Am Legend: And Other Stories by Richard Matheson (April '25)
Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier (April '25)
Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen (March '25)
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy (April '25)
The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane (April '25)

Currently Reading

The Big Sugar by Mary Logue (August '24) 1%
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (August '24) pg 7
Lizzie by Edward Rand (August '24) 18%
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (August '24) pg 208
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (August '24) 22%
Hitler's Aristocrats by Susan Ronald (August '24) 37%
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (August '24) pg 66
Scarlet City by Rebekah Haas (August '24) pg 21
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (August '24) 17%
Credence by Penelope Douglas (August '24) 1%
You Like it Darker by Stephen King (August '24) 5%
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (August '24) Pg. 171
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (August '24) 6%
Dune by Frank Herbert (September '24) Pg. 15
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (September '24) 9%
The Magus by John Fowles (October '24) Pg. 162
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (October '24) 14%
Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas (October '24) Pg. 12
'Tis the Damn Season by Fiona Gibson (December '24) 41%
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (January '25) 21%
The Book that Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence (February '25) 23%
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (March '25) Pg. 48
A Well-Trained Wife by Tia Levings (March '25) 3%
The Undead Kama Sutra by Mario Acevedo (March '25) Pg. 155
Divergent by Veronica Roth (April '25) 1%
Fairy Tale by Stephen King (April '25) 37%
9001 for Manufacturing or Assembly by Fred Dobb (April '25) Pg. 89
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (April '25) 
Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid (April '25) 59%
Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (April '25)
11/22/63 by Stephen King (April '25) Pg. 120
The Wedding People by Alison Espach (April '25) Pg. 120

To Be Read

Songlight by Moira Buffini (September '24)
The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche (September '24)
Crow Moon by Suzy Aspley (September '24)
The False Pawn by A.E. Asavi (September '24)
Camp Lanier by Sylvester Barzey (September '24)
Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong (September '24)
The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig (September '24)
Sunderworld, Vol. 1 by Ranson Riggs (September '24)
Lonely Places by Kate Anderson (October '24)
The Kiss of the Nightingale by Adi Denner (October '24)
Potions and Proposals by Kate Callaghan (October '24)
Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee (October '24)
Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood (October '24)
This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells (October '24)
My Husband the Murderer by Charlotte Barnes (November '24)
Killing Me SoufflĂ© by Ellie Alexander (November '24)
A Tale Told by Traitors by Renee Dugan (November' 24)
A Story Spun in Scarlet by Renee Dugan (November '24)
Whirly World by Brandon Jones (November '24)
Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairytale by Mark Tullius and Evan Baughfman (November '24)
House of Marionne by J. Elle (November '24)
The Mirror by Nora Roberts (November '24)
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher (November '24)
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (December '24)
Xmas Break by J.E. Rowney (December '24)
Tis' the Season for Secrets by Kate Callaghan (December '24)
A Christmas Wish on Arran by Ellie Henderson (December '24)
Madrigals and Mayhem by Elizabeth Penney (December '24)
Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge by Kjersti Herland Johnsen (December '24)
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (December '24)
Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by Jason June (December '24)
Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters (December '24)
This is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley (December '24)
The Tanglewood Bookshop by Lilac Mills (December '24)
Snow is Falling by Sarah Bennett (December '24)
Gate to Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki (January '25)
The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao (January '25)
A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson (January '25)
Star-Crossed Egg Tarts by Jennifer J. Chow (January '25)
The Rival by Emma Lord (January '25)
The Empress by Kristin Cast (January '25)
No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally (January '25)
The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard (January '25)
Sleep in Heavenly Pizza by Mindy Quigley (January '25)
Circe by Madeline Miller (February '25)
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith (February '25)
The Night Ends With Fire by K.X. Song (February '25)
The Antlered King by Marianne Gordon (February '25)
The Locke Institute: Books 1&2 by A.R. Witham (February '25)
The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor (February '25)
The Viscount St. Albans by Natania Barron (February '25)
The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre by Darcy Ash (February '25)
The Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows (February '25)
A Happy Beginning by B.A. Richards (February '25)
All Better Now by Neal Schusterman (February '25)
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson (February '25)
Identikill by K.R. Alexander (February '25)
Fog and Fireflies by T.H. Lehnen (March '25)
Colliders by Steve Foley (March '25)
eMortal by Steve Schafer (March '25)
Woman of Wolves by Jess McFarlane (March '25)
Kingdom of the Two Moons by Alexandra Thomashoff (March '25)
The Black Shards by Had Phillip (March '25)
The Secrets We Save by Del E Fox (March '25)
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch (March '25)
Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon (April '25)
The Final Wife by Jenny Blackhurst (April '25)
Shake the Jar by Kevin Barry O'Connor (April '25)
The Good Parents by Jessica Huntley (April '25)
The Shivers Collection by Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Catriona Ward, Grady Hendrix, and Owen King (April '25)
A Fellowship of Bakers and Magic by J. Penner (April '25)
Murder Between Friends by Liz Lawson (April '25)
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin (April '25)
Nobody's Fool by Harlan Coben (April '25)
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by AmĂ©lie Wen Zhao (April '25)
Love's Arrival by Amanda Speights (April '25)
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (April '25)


I didn't get a single review posted on the blog in April, and I didn't handwrite very many either. I burnt myself out with all the posts I made the first three months of the year, so now I'm trying to figure out a more balanced approach to the blog that should be less overwhelming when I'm not in a "doing things" season. I also only finished 11 books (which means I have some book club books that weren't read). However, I had to pick between three different book clubs for one meeting time in April, which explains two of them, and then another was a re-read and I just didn't finish it before the meeting, and now it's really not a priority. I'll get back to finish it eventually, but for now, it's in purgatory. 

I will also not be posting a list for May because the month is almost over. I'm just going to skip straight to the results for the month (which are going to be similarly pathetic). - Katie 

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