I’m trying to post a wrap up for the end of each month, mainly to help me to keep track of my reading and at the same time look at what I’m intending to read during the month ahead (inspired by Books Bones and Buffy’s What’s on My Plate.

In this post I shall be looking at the reading I completed for March and what I’m hoping to read during April.

Here’s what I read during March:

1. The Classified Dossier – Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray by Christian Klavier.
2. Murder Road by Simone St James
3. Oracle by Thomas Olde
4. SPFBO F – review to follow
5. SPFBO F – review to follow
6. Play of Shadows by Sebastien de Castell
7. SPFBO – review to follow
8. SPFBO – review to follow
9. Gods of The Wyrd Wood by RJ Barker – review to follow

So far this year I’m managing to stay on track with my review books (fingers crossed).  I’ve also managed to read a backlist book each month and this month I’ve now read the last of the SPFBO finalists.  I managed to read all my review books for March and this month read a total of 9 books.  Gods of the Wyrdwood was my Beat the Backlist book by RJ Barker.  I shall be making a start on one of my April review books for what remains of March – possibly The Fates by Rosie Garland..

What I’m hoping to read during April.

1. The Fates by Rosie Garland
2. The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé
3. The Gathering by CJ Tudor
4. The Hungry Dark by Jen Williams
5. The Redemption of Morgan Bright by Chris Panatier
6. You Are Here by David Nicholls
7. The Silverblood Promise by James Logan
8. Backlist book
9. Backlist book

As with last month, I think this should be manageable and if all goes to plan I’m hoping to squeeze in a couple of backlist titles.

Bookforager‘s Picture Prompt book bingo

This month I’m ticking two books off my Picture Prompt bingo card.  Firstly, my backlist book this month was Gods of the Wyrdwood (my review to follow soon).  I’m using this for the ‘snail’ prompt.  I’m translating the snail into ‘nature’ and the Wyrdwood definitely has nature in spades and places much focus on not abusing the forests.  Secondly I’m using Play of Shadows by Sebastien de Castell for the shadow puppet prompt.  This is definitely a book that focuses on shadows (and indeed you could almost make the case that the characters in the play sometimes become the puppet of the ghosts that are using them to tell their own story.  The covers have almost conspired to feed into the prompts as well this month.

PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2024 (TEXT VERSION)

A heeled shoe decorated with a bow	A microscope	A partially unrolled scroll and a pen	A land snail
An old Roman coin	A fern plant	A simple crown	An armillary sphere
A seashell	A cannon on a gun carriage	A harp (one of the big ones)	Two hands making a shadow puppet dog
An old camera and tripod	A dog (a very good doggo)	A beehive (with four bees flying around it)	Fluffy cumulonimbus clouds

How did you get on during March?