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2025 Bookish Books Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

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7 / 30 books. 23% done!

2025 Cover Lovers Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

2025 Cover Lovers Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

My Progress:


29 / 50 books. 58% done!

2025 Literary Escapes Challenge

- Alabama
- Alaska
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- California (3)
- Colorado (3)
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida (1)
- Georgia (1)
- Hawaii (1)
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- Washington (1)
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International:
- Australia (2)
- Canada (1)
- England (5)
- France (1)
- Puerto Rico (1)
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My Progress:


18 / 51 books. 35% done!

2025 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

My Progress:


11 / 50 books. 22% done!

2025 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

2025 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

My Progress:


21 / 50 books. 42% done!

Booklist Queen's 2025 Reading Challenge

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22 / 52 books. 42% done!

2025 52 Club Reading Challenge

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26 / 52 books. 50% done!

2025 Build Your Library Reading Challenge

My Progress:


13 / 40 books. 33% done!

2025 Craving for Cozies Reading Challenge

My Progress:


13 / 25 cozies. 52% done!

2025 Medical Examiner Mystery Reading Challenge

2025 Mystery Marathon Reading Challenge

My Progress


26 / 26.2 miles. 99% done!

2025 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

My Progress


10 / 100 books. 10% done!

2025 Pick Your Poison Reading Challenge

My Progress:


37 / 109 books. 34% done!

2025 Around the Year in 52 Books Reading Challenge

My Progress


37 / 52 books. 71% done!

Phase Out Your Seriesathon - My Progress


9 / 55 books. 16% done!

The 100 Most Common Last Names in the U.S. Reading Challenge

My Progress:


93 / 100 names. 93% done!

The Life Skills Reading Challenge

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61 / 80 skills. 76% done!
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

The Bookish Books Reading Challenge: April Book Ideas and Link-Up for Reviews


I blinked and, somehow, it's April. Oof! How did March race by so quickly? I didn't have any specific plans to read bookish books in March, but I did manage to get to four of them:


The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan—This book is a murder mystery that revolves around a mythical lost treasure. It's not super bookish, but one of the main characters is a novelist with writer's block who takes on a beachside house sitting gig in the hopes that the beautiful, peaceful surroundings will be the inspiration she needs to get her next book written. Instead, she gets caught up in trying to solve a murder. 


Murder on the Page by Daryl Wood Gerber—In this series debut, a pair of twin sisters are desperately trying to save their family's dying bookshop. Allie Catt, also a caterer, comes up with the idea of hosting mystery-themed dinners to raise needed funds. Things are going swimmingly until Allie's aunt is murdered and Allie's best friend is accused of the killing. The well-read caterer must summon all the knowledge she's gleaned from her favorite literary detectives to solve the puzzling crime and clear her BFF's name.


The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor—Gaynor's newest historical is about a ship carrying British children to safety in Canada during World War II that is sunk by a German U-boat. One lifeboat, carrying several children, their female attendant, and a handful of men is left floating in the ocean, forgotten. The passengers must survive, somehow, until they're rescued, but when—if ever—will that be? Books come into play because the female attendant is a big reader. She entertains the kids in the boat by telling them the story of Moby Dick from memory. 


Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister—The star of this thriller, McAllister's latest, is a literary agent and her husband works as a ghostwriter. On the day she is supposed to return to work after nine months of maternity leave, she awakes to find her husband has left the house without saying goodbye, highly unusual for him. She soon learns that he is involved in a hostage situation taking place in another part of London. To her shock, her laidback, affable husband is not a victim, but the perpetrator. How can the man she loves be holding people hostage at gunpoint? Does she even know him at all?

What bookish books did you read in March?

I'm not sure what I'm going to be reading in April, honestly, but these two look promising:


The Collector of Burned Books by Roseanna M. White (available July 15, 2025)—When the Nazis begin banning books in Germany, exiled German writers start gathering in Paris, where they open a library to safeguard their books and ideas. Corinne Bastien has made the library her second home, but when Paris is overtaken by Nazis, she loses her precious escape. With the help of a reluctant German soldier, it's up to her to protect the precious library and all the secrets it hold from falling into the hands of the enemy.


The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens—A librarian in the Midwest, Hana Babic goes out of her way to live a quiet, unassuming life. Her dark past is something she is desperate to keep hidden. When her best friend is murdered, Hana's afraid the secrets she's keeping about her previous life as a Bosnian militia fighter will make her a killer's next target. With her best friend's young granddaughter now in her care, Hana must protect herself and her charge at all costs. 

What bookish books are you planning to read in April?

If you are participating in the 2025 Bookish Books Reading Challenge, please use the widget below to link-up your April reviews. If you're not signed up for the challenge yet, what are you waiting for? Click here to join the party.

 

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