April 2021 Reading Possibility Pile

Here we are at April already.  Time to switch out my reading choices according to the Read Your Bookshelf Challenge.  March was a bit rough on my reading.  Between getting my Mom's home organized for sale and our beloved dog getting sick my motivation went way down.  I enjoyed reading when I picked up my book, but the actual picking up was hard.  It seemed my mind was too full of other things.  But I did get 2 books read from the challenge of "Friend's Recommendations"  and 2 audiobooks done.  A new month and with nicer weather to take my book outside with me is already motivating me so hopefully I can get back on track for my 50 books in 2021 goal.

So the challenge prompt this month from the Read Your Bookshelf Challenge is "A Book With 5+ Words in the Title".  When I first saw that I thought I would only have a choice or two but as I dug through my unread piles it was clear I had waaaay more than I thought to fit the category.   And I was even able to fit that prompt into my "on hold at the library" and "a book purchased in 2019-2021" monthly challenge.  So here's my possibility pile for April:

( a couple of books didn't make it into the picture)

ON HOLD AT THE LIBRARY:

          ~The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

                 by Anthony Ray Hinton   (finished)

         ~ The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons  (finished)

          ~The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

READ YOUR BOOKSHELF CHALLENGE:  (April prompt: a book with 5+ words in title)

          ~Praying the Names of Jesus by Ann Spangler

          ~Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Morag Prunty   (set aside)

          ~The Pearl That Broke It's Shell by Nadia Hashimi

          ~The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green

          ~A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

          ~A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena

          ~By the Light of a Thousand Stars by Jamie Langston Turner

          ~The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom

          ~The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets by Molly Fader  (finished)

          ~The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

          ~The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

          ~The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin Harmel

          ~Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg

          ~Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg  (finished)

   

BOOKS PURCHASED IN 2019-2021

          ~The Librarian of Boone's Hollow by Kim Vogel Sawyer

          ~As the Light Fades by Catherine West

What are you reading this month?