I slept all day. I didn‘t wake up until 3 PM. It was raining all day and I stayed in my nightgown. I didn‘t change into regular clothes. Tonight, I ate dinner and then I took a shower after dinner. I read more of Assassin‘s Apprentice by Robin Hobb for the #realmofelderlings buddy read. It‘s midnight right now so I‘m going to journal for a little bit and then get back to reading more of Assassin‘s Apprentice.

#chatterday

1. April 1 was Library Giving Day so I donated $5 to Houston Public Library & $5 to Harris County Public Library.
2. I ordered coffee from an online shop called Kitty Town Coffee. The proceeds from sales feed cats in shelters.
3. I signed up for a webinar about trees.
4. I made more progress in the #realmofelderlings buddy read.
5. I signed up for another webinar about birds.

#5joysfriday

It‘s 3:30 AM and I just finished reading this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m ready for tomorrow‘s discussion.

I made more progress in this book tonight. I was on chapter 6 and I just stopped on chapter 10. I like what I‘ve read so far.

#realmofelderlings

For everyone who is participating in the #naturalitsy buddy read, I was on Facebook and saw an advertisement for this free webinar happening on April 22 that is being hosted by American Bird Conservancy. If you can‘t make it to the webinar, you can RSVP and you‘ll be able to watch it whenever you want to. I signed up for this.

Link to RSVP: https://act.abcbirds.org/a/bold-birds-wbr?ms=web_modal_ev_wbr_gen_rsvp_bold_btn_...

This book is a Netgalley book I was approved for before it was approved but I never got around to reading it. I found out that recently Taylor Swift is older than me by about 6 or 7 months so she‘s not that much older than me. Her birthday is December 13, 1989 and my birthday is July 9, 1990. She turned 35 in December. I‘ll be 35 in July. I like her so I think that‘s really cool.

I‘ve seen Ghost, Beauty And The Beast, Pulp Fiction, Juno, The Blind Side, Up, LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring, LOTR: The Two Towers, LOTR: The Return Of The King, Moulin Rouge, Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon.
I want to see Jerry Maguire, Erin Brockovich, Avatar, The Green Mile. I like Tom Hanks. I found out that he and I share a birthday. Our birthdays are both on July 9 but we were born different years.

#threelistthursday

This is a #roll100 book that was picked in February when the numbers were drawn. I‘ve been reading it since February 17. This was a book I found on Netgalley under the Read Now section and I didn‘t get around to reading it before it was published. Will I finish it this month? I don‘t know. I‘ve been journaling along with this book. This has a lot of blank journal pages and journal prompts. I might not have time to read my other #roll100 books.

Here‘s my #readyourkindle picks for April. I have 1 mood reading prompt and 3 Kindle Unlimited prompts. I don‘t know if I‘ll have time to use Kindle Unlimited or mood read my Kindle that much this month. I have a lot going on with reading this month. I‘m participating in buddy reads, a book club and reading a digital ARC I signed up for as well as finishing a book series for #serieslove2025 and reading 1 of my #roll100 books on my Kindle.

Here‘s my #roll100 picks for April. I‘m still reading My Healthy Noggin. I‘m hoping I can finish it this month. I‘m looking forward to reading the *NSYNC book and reading Party Of One which is about being single. I‘m also looking forward to reading the book about black fashion designers. The only book I‘m not looking forward to is about Josephine Butler and women‘s rights. I‘m not in the mood to read about that but I will read it.

Here‘s my #readyourkindle list for April. I don‘t know if I‘m going to be able to mood read on my Kindle or read anything from Kindle Unlimited this month because I‘m still reading a book on my Kindle that was on my February #roll100 list. Replay is a digital ARC I signed up for from Chasing Books PR and they sent it to me. I signed up for every single ARC they were offering even though I‘m behind on reading my Netgalley books.

Here‘s my #bookspinbingo board for April. I like the background I picked. My theme for my bingo board is Easter/Spring. I also put images associated with Spring on the Free Space spots. The images are: Peeps (the Easter candy), an Easter egg, a bunny, a blue butterfly and the sun. I really like how my board looks. The birds have been singing outside my house over here. They‘re happy. Before I know it, it‘ll be time for them to have their babies.

Here‘s my #bookspinbingo picks. My #doublespin is the book I‘m reading this month for the #christiescapers buddy read and my #bookspin pick is a book I‘m reading for a book club on Fable. There was a poll up on Fable to vote on the book. I was the only person who voted on April‘s book and my choice won the poll. I‘m excited. I‘ve been wanting to read Sorcery Of Thorns for a while. I feel like I should be able to get both of these books read.

Here‘s my April #bookspinbingo list.

I was on Instagram today and I saw an advertisement for this online shop called Kitty Town Coffee so I decided to order a 3 pack of sample size coffee from them. I like that they said that proceeds from online sales help feed cats in shelters. I feel good about that.

Houston Library Foundation posted this on Facebook today. I‘m glad I participated in Library Giving Day on April 1 by giving $5 to Harris County Public Library and $5 to Houston Public Library. I feel good about this.

I was on Kanopy recently and I discovered that PBS documentaries are on there. I typed PBS into the search function and they have so many things from PBS. This is just some of the things from PBS they have but I was sitting here scrolling through all of this and it goes on forever. I never reached the end of the results. I‘m glad I discovered this because I love PBS. PBS has a Roku app too. My mom cut off the cable so I can only stream PBS now.

For everyone participating in the #naturalitsy buddy read, I saw that this online event will be happening on April 8. It‘s all about trees.

Link to register: https://libraryc.org/troypl/71243

I saw that my library has the books in the Shardlake series. It sounds really interesting. I think I would enjoy the books so I added the first book on to my Goodreads TBR. I don‘t have time for more long books right now. I have a lot going on with reading right now. I‘m participating in #realmofelderlings. It‘s a 15 book series. All of the books are over 500 pages and I‘m still reading the first book in that series.

I answered a guided journal prompt that says,” What is a song that always makes you feel a certain way and what emotion does it evoke?”. I filled up 3 pages in my journal answering this prompt but these are some of my answers. I enjoyed this prompt when I did it last week for the first time.

#tuesdaytunes

After I found out that today is Library Giving Day, I gave $5 to Houston Public Library and $5 to Harris County Public Library because I have digital library cards from both of them. I think we should all donate money to our local libraries even if we can only give $5. I hope every library gets a lot of donations today.

I just saw this post today on Instagram and I found out that today is Library Giving Day.

Here‘s how I did on my #bookspinbingo board. I didn‘t get a bingo but I got caught up on the #christiescapers buddy read that I joined and I ended up having all 3 books done by the end of the month when we had our discussion. I won‘t have as many Agatha Christie books to read in April. I‘ll only have 1 to read. They‘re so short. They don‘t take any brain power to read.

Here‘s how I did on my #bookspinbingo picks. I read the short story I was supposed to read for #noplacelikeholmes. I knew I would be able to since the stories are so short and they don‘t take any brain power to read. I wanted to read the books for #naturalitsy. I‘m disappointed that I didn‘t get a chance to but maybe in April, I‘ll get to if I have time. It‘s the perfect time to read books about nature because it‘s Spring.

Here‘s how I did on #bookspinbingo in March. I finished 1 series for #serieslove2025, read a book for a book club and read books for buddy reads. I didn‘t read any more of Assassin‘s Apprentice for the #realmofelderlings buddy read and I didn‘t read any of the books for the #naturalitsy buddy read. I‘m still reading a #roll100 book I started in February and I haven‘t finished it yet but I‘m making progress on it.

Here‘s how I did on March‘s #roll100 picks. I‘m still reading My Healthy Noggin. I‘ve been reading it since February but I‘m making progress in it. Hopefully, I‘ll finish it in April. It looks like I‘m going to be rolling over the books from February and March or maybe I‘ll end up reading these other books another month.

I didn‘t read any of these picks for #readyourkindle. These picks would have been whatever books I decided I wanted to read. I‘m reading a book on my Kindle right now from my February #roll100 list but I‘m still not finished with it yet. Hopefully, I‘ll finish it in April.

Here‘s how I did on #readyourkindle in March. I completed a 3 book series on my Kindle for #serieslove2025 but that‘s it.

This is the last of my March #bookhaul from my Novelly Yours reading journal.

March #bookhaul. I didn‘t have enough room in my Novelly Yours reading journal to write down the rest of my book haul because there‘s only 2 pages for a book haul so I figured out that at the back of each month, it has blank pages and you can write down whatever you want back there so I used the blank pages to write down the rest of my book haul.

March #bookhaul

Here‘s my March #bookhaul. I‘m using the Novelly Yours reading journal.

Here‘s my March #readingwrapup.

For #weeklyfavorites, I chose The Mysterious Affair At Styles as a favorite for week 3. For the last week of the month, I chose the tagged book. I‘m participating in the #christiescapers buddy read. We‘re reading Agatha Christie books in publication order. I feel like you can‘t go wrong with any of her books. They don‘t take a long time to read so when you read one of her books then you feel like you‘re at least finishing something.

I haven‘t been to any indie bookstores in my area. I live in TX and I found out we have 25 indie bookstores here. I didn‘t know we had so many. 4 of them are close to where I live. I don‘t drive because I don‘t know how. My mom drives me if I want to go somewhere. I‘m supporting Village Books in The Woodlands on bookshop.org and I‘m supporting The Book Attic in Tomball on Libro.FM.

#sundayfunday

Tonight, I watched this movie about Taylor Swift on Kanopy. I might as well use Kanopy since it‘s free through my local library. I‘ve found a lot of stuff I want to watch. If your local library has Kanopy to watch stuff, you should take advantage of it. It just depends on what you like to watch. I also watched Fathom tonight on Apple TV. Fathom is a documentary about humpback whales and their songs. It was so interesting.

I‘m posting #5joysfriday on a Saturday.

1. I participated in a Facebook group answering a question about journal discoveries.
2. I live in TX and I saw this list of 25 independent book stores that was posted on Instagram. I didn‘t know we had so many independent bookstores.
3. I caught up on the #noplacelikeholmes buddy read
4. I caught up on the #christiescapers buddy read
5. The Fable app has reader summaries now.

Here‘s my review for a book I just finished reading for #christiescapers. Now, I‘m caught up on the buddy read and I‘m ready for the discussion on Sunday.

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m caught up on the buddy read and I‘m ready for the discussion on Saturday.

I‘ve started journaling this year because I‘m reading a book called “My Healthy Noggin” by Bokinia Colbert that‘s about mental wellness journaling right now. The book has guided journal prompts and blank journal pages. Taylor Bradshaw asked this question in his Facebook group and this was my response.

#journaling

#christiescapers

I‘ve seen Hello, Dolly! and Fatal Attraction. I liked Hello, Dolly! but I didn‘t like Fatal Attraction. I watched Fatal Attraction with my mom and she asked me what I thought about it after we watched it and I said,”This movie was something else.”
I want to watch E.T, Mary Poppins, Funny Girl, Fiddler On The Roof and Cabaret.

#threelistthursday

According to Google, I have 4 independent bookstores near my location here in TX. It wouldn‘t be too long of a drive for my mom to take me to any of these bookstores but it‘s more convenient for me to support independent bookstores online because I don‘t have to worry about transportation when I do that.

Good Books In The Woods - 19 minute drive
Buy The Book - 18 minute drive
Village Books - 17 minute drive
The Book Attic - 26 minute drive

I didn‘t know we had so many independent bookstores in Texas. Now that I found that list of independent bookstores, I‘m going to make sure I remember to follow all of them on social media. I probably have more than 2 of these stores that are closer to me than I think.

I‘m following this independent bookstore in Tomball, TX and they just posted this on their Instagram. I live in TX. April 27 is Independent Bookstore Day. I‘m supporting The Book Attic in Tomball on Libro FM and I‘m supporting Village Books in The Woodlands on Bookshop.org. Both bookstores aren‘t very far from where I live. I can‘t drive there myself because I don‘t know how to drive but my mom can drive me.

This was my first Agatha Christie book. I‘m participating in the #christiescapers buddy read and I want to reread this book. I listened to it on Audible and it was narrated by Dan Stevens. He did really good. I liked his voice. He has the perfect voice for this type of book. I will listen to him narrate again.

I just started the tagged book for the #christiescapers buddy read. I like it so far. I didn‘t realize that when I read Murder On The Orient Express that the detective is Hercule Poirot in that book. That was my first Agatha Christie book and I would recommend it if you want to try out her books. I actually want to reread it since I‘m participating in this buddy read of her books.

I just saw this Instagram reel from a Bookstagram account and I‘m sitting here laughing at it at 2 AM. It‘s the way the guys are reacting that‘s making me laugh. I wanted to share the link to the reel here so everyone else can laugh at it with me.

Link to reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHobVc5g_Z7/?igsh=ZmFzdzh3dzJvMnVx

Here‘s my review for a book I just finished reading for the #christiescapers buddy read. I‘m going to start reading The Murder On The Links next.

The American Library Association also posted this on their Facebook page.

#savelibraries