My Nightstand -- April

Well, since I'm not a tidy housekeeper, there are still a few books on my nightstand that I recently finished. Last month I announced that I was going to do a nonfiction only month in April, and I've been doing it! Most of my reviews haven't posted yet (or, um, been written yet), but you can look for them in the coming week. After having it "on my nightstand" for many months, I DID finally read Toxic Friends! I read all of these books last month, reviews to come:

• Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships (Now linked to my REVIEW)
• Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost (Now linked to my review)
• Confessions of a Rebel Debutante
• This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness (Now linked to my review)

These books I finished and DID review (linked to my reviews):

• The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things (VERY fun book -- linked to review and giveaway)
• Never Tell Our Business to Strangers: A Memoir

These are books I am carrying over, two of which I've already started:

• Making Toast
• When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
• Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick

And for May:

• Innocent by Scott Turow
• Secret Daughter by Shilpi Gowda
• As Young As We Feel by Melody Carlson
  
• A Soft Place to Land
• The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World
  
• The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
  
• LEGO: A Love Story

I don't know if I'll finish these two, but would like to get started:

• Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
• Real World Parents: Christian Parenting for Families Living in the Real World

Oh my. These little monthly planning sessions leave me wishing I could just take a reader's retreat somewhere and read for a few days. Fortunately, Spring is here (sort of -- it's cold and rainy today), and I do love sitting on my back deck reading while the kids are outside, and several of these books will be a quick read, so I'm sure that I'll be able to finish them.

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