MONTH IN REVIEW: April 2026

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on May 5, 2026 • ( 0 )

Since I don’t really have anything for the Top Ten Tuesday topic this week, I figured I’d go ahead and get my Month in Review out of the way. April was a weird month, with really high highs and very low lows. Here’s how things went reading-wise:

April Reads

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

Only four books, but that’s sort of been my pace these days, about one book per week (or a little less, in this case).

Challenge Updates

GoodReads Challenge: My goal was to read 52 books this year. As of the end of April, I have 18 books read, which is 1 book ahead of schedule!

GoodReads Choice Awards Challenge: My goal was to read all of the winners of the GoodReads Choice Awards from last year. In April, I read Not Quite Dead Yet, the winner for Best Mystery/Thriller, bringing my total to 4 of 13 read. I need to step up my game on this one, because I feel like I’m slacking a little, but I’m currently reading another one and will hopefully get one more out of the way in May as well.

Beat the Backlist: No new squares to add to my board, as this month was all new books read. I’m still feeling up in the air about this challenge as a whole, so we’ll see if anything else comes of it.

Blog Updates

April started off well enough for the blog, but towards the end of the month, I got super busy and wasn’t able to do as much. Eh, it happens. Breakdown as follows:

Month in Review: 1
Top Ten Tuesday: 2
WWW Wednesday: 3
Book Blogger Hop: 2
Sunday Post: 1
Review: 1

Yeah, only 10 posts, and most of them were the first week.

Shop Updates

As I mentioned before, Tabby Cat Textiles is sort of on hold right now. There are still several things available, and I am working on some new items to post, which will hopefully be done soon. I’m also experimenting with some new patterns in order to get some new options in there. I was going to try and crochet some items for the warmer months, but nothing has really stuck yet. I’m a cool weather girl and I think that will stay the main focus of this shop.

The good news is that I have a few more ideas for other things that might be featured soon. Still working out the details, but I will be sure to let everyone know once that is up and running.