Monthly Recap: April

 

TV WATCH

Kinda sorta getting back into the habit.

• Jane the Virgin – I MAY NEVER RECOVER BECAUSE OF THE LAST 30 SECONDS OF THE SEASON FINALE. What in the world, show?!
• The End of the Fucking World – I finally finished it and I’m honestly still not sure if I even like the show. What the fuck was that ending, though?
• New Girl – I can’t believe it’s gonna be over so quickly and that it’s the last season, but I’m loving it so much.
• The Flash – Oh boy, this season has been pretty predictable and there have been way too many average episodes because FUCKING RALPH DIBNEY. Please stop.
• Killing Eve – This is a show that my sister recommended to me and I decided to try it out when she explained what the first episode was about. Boy, did I ended up loving it right from the first minute. Killing Eve is basically about a psychopath female assassin and Eve who’s tasked with catching her. It’s funny, it has gruesome murder scenes and just amazing. 10/10 would recommend!

 

MOVIE WATCH

Oh, boy.

• Ready Player One (6/10) – I honestly had such high hopes because I wanted to have a good time and sigh.

 

LIST OF READS

I honestly tried so hard to be better at reading and almost succeeded.

• Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum – This was a great contemporary! I basically cannot get enough of the whole pen pals but hate each other IRL trope so had to read this.
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi – SO GREAT! I loved Zuri and this is probably gonna be the only retelling of Pride & Prejudice that I will always recommend since I’m not a fan of P&P at all.
• Circe by Madeline Miller – CIRCE, MY LOVE. There were definitely some weird things because Greek gods but overall, it’s beautifully written and I couldn’t get enough of it.
• The Fifth to Die by J. D. Barker – SO TWISTY. Loved it. Although, I’m a bit mad that it introduced too many things and didn’t answer all of them, whyyy.
• The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy – The first book, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, is probably my favorite but this was good, too. I really we get more stories about these queer anarchists demon hunters.
• Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente – So good! There are way too many things and run-on sentences in the sense that a paragraph would start somewhere and end up talking about something completely unrelated. It does take some getting used to but I’m glad I pushed through because THIS BOOK sobs.
• Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time by Saladin Ahmed, Christian Ward – THE ART! Stunning and I loved Black Bolt himself, too.
• Arrivals by Michael R. Underwood – A great start! It’s my first ever foray into reading episodic serials and I’m a fan.

 

LIST OF BOOK ACQUISITIONS

Zero sense of shelf control, ha.

• The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan
• The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy
• Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
• The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
• Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier
• Three Japanese Short Stories by Akutagawa and Others
• The Three Electroknights by Stanislaw Lem
• Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
• The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
• The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
• The Finger by William S. Burroughs
• Lance by Vladimir Nabokov
• Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno
• If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
• The Finger by William S. Burroughs
• Lance by Vladimir Nabokov
• One Way by S. J. Morden
• Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• America Vol. 2: Fast and Fuertona by Gabby Rivera, Joe Quinones, Flaviano, Stacey Lee
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi
• For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig
• Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
• The One by John Marrs
• Arrivals by Michael R. Underwood
• The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 6: Imperial Phase Part 2 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson
• The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
• First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
• One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
• The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde
• Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
• Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
• Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
• What If It’s Us by Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli
• Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
• A Pocketful of Crows by Joanne M. Harris
• Space Unicorn Blues by TJ Berry
• Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
• False Hearts by Laura Lam
• Circe by Madeline Miller

 

PLAYLIST

I actually put it on my to-do to listen to more music and failed quite miserably looking at the state of my playlist.

How was your April?