Monthly Wrap-Up | April 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

April 2025 Wrap Up

I’m posting April’s wrap up a little late, it turned into quite a hectic month for me and I have so much to catch up on with the blog! I didn’t finish as many books as I wanted either; I overcommitted to too many buddy reads in the last few months and I have learned my lesson! I’m making good progress in finishing the ones I’ve committed to though, and I’m a lot more careful about signing up for more. I’m also missing a lot of books I want to read that aren’t buddy reads, so I’m excited to make space for them as well. Still, I love buddy reads and I can’t give them up completely. If only everyone else wanted to read the books I want to read at the same time I want to read them! 😂

My April 2025 TBR Intentions

Five out of six of my TBR intentions aren’t bad. And the only reason I didn’t get to Stoner is because the library hold is still 3 weeks out at the time of this writing. I’m probably going to defer it to later since I already missed the deadline for the buddy read, but I’m still very much interested in reading it eventually.

1. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
2. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
3. The Terror by Dan Simmons
4. The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
6. Stoner by John Williams

Books Read in April 2025

1. The Terror by Dan Simmons
2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
4. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
5. The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
6. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Notable Books This Month

The Terror, Little Fires Everywhere, and Sunshine were all really amazing books for me this month!

The Terror was weird and a little trippy, but I was surprised by how invested I got into the characters and what happens to them. It’s a fictionalized account of real events, but I’m not very familiar with the history of the expedition so it was interesting trying to figure out what was real and what was made up.

I watched the adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere with Keri Washington and Reese Witherspoon and loved it, and it was nice to read the book and see that the show stayed quite true to the story. I got a lot out of the book, some of the nuances of the rich and privileged’s thinking processes were quite jarring to see on the page, but so incredibly well-written.

Sunshine was a reread. This is the third time I’m reading it and I’m still loving it! There were definitely some things I didn’t notice the first couple of times that I noticed now. The relationship stuff were… questionable, in that I’m curious as to the kind of relationship Rae actually has with the people in her life, but the story was amazing nevertheless.

May 2025 TBR Intentions

These are some of the books I’m planning to read in May. I read fewer books in April than usual and I’m definitely hoping to read more than five in May, but these are the priorities and after that, I’ll see where my mood takes me!

1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (The Wayfarers #4) by Becky Chambers
2. Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. Every Tool’s a Hammer by Adam Savage
4. The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
5. Rose Madder by Stephen King

How was your month in April? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful May with lots of great books!