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Podcasts that I am listening/listened to
Alice isn't dead (finished)
The alnerwick files
Badlands cola
Barren (finished)
Bridgewater (finished)
Bombs
The bright sessions
Camp here and there
Clockwork bird (finished)
The dead letter office of somewhere ohio
The deck tapes (finished)
Death by dying (finished)
Desperado
The far meridian
Hello from the hallowwoods
Jar of rebuke
Kakos industries
Knight falls, CA (finished)
Mabel
The magnus archives (finished)
Malevolent
The mistholme museum of mystery, morbidity, and mortality
Neighborly
The night post
Nora
Nowhere, on air
Old gods of appalachia
The penumbra podcast
Spines podcast
The six disappearances of ella mccray (finished)
Station arcadia
Video palace (finished)
The viridian wild
Welcome to nightvale
Woe.begone
"To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.
She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification.
Humans are fundamentally limited generalizing creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time."
~April's Books Reviewed~
April was significantly better than March, but I'm still definitely taking a little longer than standard to get through books. That being said, all the books I did read this month I highly enjoyed!
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
(546 pages)
This was a lovely way to start off the month. The format was a little hard to get into at first, but once I got in the way of it, I found the concept of a murder mystery book within another murder mystery interesting. The story was simple to follow and the characters compelling enough to keep reading about, if a little predictable at times. There were also perhaps slightly too many characters, certainly at the start. It felt that a lot of the mystery of the murder mystery came down to my inability to keep track of the characters at points! However, overall I did really enjoy this book, it was a very gentle reintroduction to reading after the failure of March and I would recommend this to anyone who was wanting an easy book that is a bit of fun and simple enough of a plot line to not fully pay attention to at points.
I gave this book 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
(490 pages)
I strangely enjoyed this book, and I do say strangely as it did fail to fully keep my attention. I didn't find myself desperate to keep reading at night, or reaching for it during the day; however I also didn't struggle to finish it or feel annoyed with the idea of continuing. Like with most books which incorporate multiple storylines or POVs, there was one obviously better one. For me this was the storyline set in the present. I found it easily the most interesting and engaging and as a result I did find myself rushing through the stories set in the past in order to return to it which did mean that the bits in the past were also a little confusing too. I would have happily read an entire novel just following the present though. So all in all, not bad at all and I would definitely still recommend to people who prefer reading more realistic novels.
I gave this book 3 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
(288 pages)
If I had one more person recommend this too my I might have gone mad, but you know what, they were right! This was such a good book! The concept was very clever and so so well written. It was emotional at points and also yet weirdly uplifting. I really really enjoyed it and felt that it achieved exactly what it set out too. I genuinely can't think of anything else to say other than just to strongly recommend it to everyone else too! I will say that a slight content warning should be highlighted here that the protagonist does suffer from depression and as the novel is told through her voice this is very realistically depicted.
I gave this book 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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