Stacking the Shelves (46) + April Recap

This month's for-review haul made me cry. Yes, I know, HELLO GOODBYE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

For Review

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between by Jennifer E. Smith (ARC)

Duplicity by N.K. Traver

The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

Something Real by Heather Demetrios

The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

Denton Little's Deathdate by Lance Rubin

We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach (my review)

Burn by Sarah Fine and Walter Jury (ARC)

Deadly Design by Debra Dockter (ARC)

The Pirate Pig by Cornelia Funke (ARC)

5 to 1 by Holly Bodger (ARC)

The Fearless by Emma Pass (ARC)

Nightborn by Lou Anders (ARC)

The Disappearance of Emily H. by Barrie Summy

Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk by Liesl Shurtliff

The Whisperer by Fiona McIntosh

Borrowed

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (ARC) (my review)

Gifted

*signed* The Boyfriend Backtrack by Dawn Lanuza (my review)

Purchased

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

Reality Boy by A.S. King

Thank you to Novl, Jennifer E. Smith, Macmillan International, Simon & Schuster Children's UK, Putnam Juvenile, Penguin Random House, Faye of The Social Potato, Dawn Lanuza, National Book Store, and Fully Booked!

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April Recap

Guys, April kicked my butt. I thought March was insane but obviously, April wouldn't let be beaten. I went somewhere for work where I labored A LOT but it was also fun because ALAS I AM NOT SURROUNDED BY MY CUBICLE AND THE MOUNTAIN OF PAPERWORK I HAVE. Anyway, here's the lowdown on my posts last month!

Blog

Reviews

5 stars | Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | The Martian by Andy Weir | An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

4 stars | Kissing Ted Callahan (and Other Guys) by Amy Spalding | The Boyfriend Backtrack by Dawn Lanuza | Dating Down by Stefanie Lyons

3 stars | Hitched by Dawn Rae Miller

Playlist | The Boyfriend Backtrack by Dawn Lanuza

Under the Radar Friday | Author Sue Duff

Cover Reveals | Loving Dallas by Caisey Quinn | The Summer of Lost Wishes by Jessa Gabrielle | Bounce by Noelle August | Chaos by Jamie Shaw

Spotlight | Interim by S. Walden

Blog Tour Invites | Buqo YA 1: Taking Chances | Buqo YA 2: Sweet Complications | Buqo YA 3: Finding Fairytales

Announcements | Cora Carmack's All Closed Off

Campaigns | #SecretsofAttraction (for The Secrets of Attraction by Robin Constantine) | Hello World! (for Hello? by Liza Wiemer)

I want to share more about myself from now on so instead of just recapping my blogposts, I'm thinking of sharing whatever I listened to and watched in my monthly recap as well.

Music

Since I started noting down songs I got obsessed to every day, I'm including my top songs for April!

Dojo Rising by Cloud Control

This isn't a new song (AT ALL) but I had a Cloud Control binge at the end of March + start of April and this music video guys. It's one of my all-time favorites AND it makes me cry.

Paralyse by Polarheart

I got to know Polarheart thanks to being a Pynch fanatic as their song Hypnotise was a Pynch song according to Maggie Stiefvater. (It really is.) I was so tempted to feature Hypnotise in here but it was the song for March and I really got into Paralyse this April.

Heart and Mind by Winterbourne

New discovery and new it band. AUSSIE + FOLKSY = DIANNE IS PUTTY

I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers

Wake Me by Bleachers was for last month as it was the new addition to the Pynch playlist. But the whole Strange Desire album is so good that I feel like cheating for only featuring one song out of it. But I Wanna Get Better is so anthematic and it's the kind of song you'll blast inside your car and just shout-sing along too. Love it.

Wash It All Away by San Cisco

So obviously, I'm still not done with San Cisco's newest album, Gracetown, as an earworm. It's still a constant feature in my listening queue. 

Raising the Skate by Speedy Ortiz

FOIL DEER IS NOW OUT ALL HAIL SADIE DUPUIS. This song is so feminist and girl power woo that I can't stop singing it.

I'm not bossy, I'm the boss

Shooter, not the shot

On the tip and fit to execute

I'm chief, not the overthrown

Captain, not a crony

So if you wanna row, you better have an awfully big boat

TV

Ohmygod, you guys. I binged How to Get Away with Murder. I watched the first two episodes twice then I watched it every time I can. Then one Friday night, I marathon-ed episodes 7 to 15 from 12MN to 8:30AM. That is how much I can't stop watching it. However, I was a bit disappointed by the finale. Don't get me wrong, I still am hella curious about everything and I will certainly watch the second season. It's just that, I don't like the direction the show is going. This is how Revenge dug its own grave after the first season so sorry not sorry if I'm not particularly enthused about how they're gonna handle it.

How did your April go? Any film or TV recommendations? (I badly need TV recs, preferably cancelled/on-break shows because I have a series-commitment phobia.) More importantly, what great books did you read last April?