This may have been one of the longest-feeling months of my existence. Having left my house maybe four times in the last month, I’m finding that even my home-body nature is being challenged. I think it has to do with the amount of work I’ve been doing and the amount of work I feel like I should be doing since I don’t have a two hour commute for the moment.

I also feel like I’m not reading enough. I want to read more, but have trouble finding time to fit it in between work, other work, and family things. I’m looking forward to May as other work begins to die down. I think my reading life will begin to shift back toward more reading and less staring at the computer.

So in the month of April, I read five books. Or rather, I recorded five books in my journal.

• Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson
• The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay |
• On the Horizon by Lois Lowry | Review
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams | Review
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia