{Wrap up} Books I read in April, including L’Origine by Milgrom, and Hello World by Fry

April has been a quiet month for reading: in total I’ve read only seven books!

It’s also been the hardest month of unemployment since COVID/ lockdown 1.0 began, and I am barely limping on. I miss London, and my family there so much that I wake up having dreamt of wandering around there with them. Hopefully the worst of the homesickness and missing folks has passed (foolish optimism, sustain me!) and I will be back to reading lots, getting back to work, and seeing loved ones soon.

Hilariously I rediscovered the Classics Club (with 3 months to go until my original time slot expired) this month. Instead of trying and probably failing to cram in 50 classics in 3 months, I sent a message politely asking them whether they could update my challenge time-frame so that I could officially restart from 0.

Now on to this month’s reading wrap up!

 

{Readathon} The London Bookshop Crawl – 2nd April- 5th April 2021

This year marks the first year of Ninja Book Box’s London Bookshop Crawl Readathon. Ninja Book Box specialises in spreading the word about independent publishers so I thought that now would be the perfect time to dig out some of the indie books that I’ve been itching to read but haven’t made it to the top of Mount TBR.

I’m hoping to read 2-3 books out of this list over the course of the readathon. In no real order, these are the books I’d love to read this weekend:

1. The Mysterious Death of Jane Austen – Lindsay Ashford
2. Silver Candlesticks – Shirley Shapiro
3. Unfilled Graves – Ah Cheng
4. Ghost Variations – Jessica Duchen
5. The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty – Stowell, Cox & McKnight

This is going to be a wild night in par l’extraordinaire !

Yeah I know that should have been weekend in, but what’s a terrible pun between friends, eh?