How are we already at April? Is it just me or has 2022 already kind of flew by. I feel like I say that every year though. Time goes so fast, unless it’s when you want time to go fast and it goes as slow as a snail trying to win a track race. So confusing. Well I will admit I started my April reads a little early as I was on vacation this last week of March and figured I finished all my March reads already, might as well start into April. Here are the first few that I hope to read this month. Would love if you want to read along with me! Have you read any of these? What are you looking to read this month?
1. The Neighbor’s Secret by L. Alison Heller
How well do you really know your neighbors? From the outside, Cottonwood Estates looks like the perfect place to raise a family. And anybody who is anybody is in the neighborhood book club. A once a month discussion filled with cocktails, gossip, and murder? When acts of vandalism start targeting members of the book club, in violent and deeply personal ways, they must decide how much longer they can keep their secrets hidden before it’s too late.
2. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Linus Baker leads a life in solitary with his cat in his tiny house. He works for the government in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth where he assists with children living in government sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is assigned an interesting case dealing with six magical youth out on an isolated island, he has to determine whether or not the children are going to destroy the world. When the secrets of the island start emerging it is revealed that not everything is truly as it appears and Linus must decide if it is better to destroy the home or watch the world burn.
3. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
A not so typical genre from the very talented Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell dives into history and explores how technology and intentions come together in the heat of the war. The airplane was often overlooked by some of the top military officials during WWII, but there was a group of strategists knows as the “Bomber Mafia” who questioned what if precision bombing could ruin the enemy. Malcolm studies Hiroshima and Nagasaki and asks was it really worth it?
4. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
When four kids from the same Massachusetts college move to NYC to make their own path, they have pretty much nothing other than their friendship and ambition to carry them on. We see how the friendship changes between Willem, JB, Malcolm and Jude over the decades. Addiction, success, and pride all lighten and darken this friendship at different times. How they all come to realize that Jude will be their greatest challenge even though he once was the glue that held them all together. How it will define all their lives forever.
5. The Show Girl by Nicola Harrison
1927, New York City, Olive McCormick has worked all her life to become one of the show girls for the Ziegfeld Follies. Once she finally makes it on stage, everything she has been working for has finally paid off and she knows she is living the life she was meant to live. Even despite all the sacrifices she had to make to get here. Then she meets Archie Carmichael. They quickly fall in a world win romance and deiced to get married. After they get married though, Archie’s true colors start showing and Olive realizes she doesn’t really know the man she just married. Is he worth giving up the career she has always longed for?
6. Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Do you really know the person you married? Think again. Adam and Amelia Wright have been having some marriage conflicts for a long time. When they win a weekend trip to Scotland, they believe that is exactly what they need to help restore their marriage. Every year on their anniversary they exchange customary gifts, and every year Amelia writes a letter to her husband that she never lets him read. Until now. However, they did not win this trip. One is lying. One does not want Happily Ever After.
Until Next Time, The Library Abroad
The Library Abroad 
Leave a comment