March is over! Time to discuss the books I plan on reading during the month of April. As always, my goal is to read at least 5 novels per month, I tend to surpass that goal so I’ll throw in an extra one for good luck. I’ll most likely add a graphic novel or short story in there as well. I also need to start shrinking my unread ebooks list so I’m going to start adding at least one ebook per month to my reading list.
Here are the books I plan on reading this month:
Half Wild (Half Bad #2)
Author: Sally Green
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Witches
Release Date: March 24th 2015
Page Count: 400
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670017133
Goodreads Synopsis: “You will have a powerful Gift, but it’s how you use it that will show you to be good or bad.” In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted. Now, Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, and he’s on the run–but the Hunters are close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Publisher: Viking
Genre: Classics, Mental Health, Literature, Fiction
Release Date: January 19th 2012 (first published 1962)
Page Count: 277
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670023233
Goodreads Synopsis: A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey’s searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the story through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned. Hailed upon its publication as “a glittering parable of good and evil” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a roar of protest against middlebrow society’s Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them” (Time), Kesey’s powerful book went on to sell millions of copies and remains as bracing and insightful today as when it was first released. This new deluxe hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of the novel on February 1, 1962, and will be a must have for any literature lover.
Coraline
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy, Horror
Release Date: April 24th 2012 (first published January 1st 2002)
Page Count: 160
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780380807345
Goodreads Synopsis: “Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. . . .” When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvellous. But there’s another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Celebrating ten years of Neil Gaiman’s first modern classic for young readers, this edition is enriched with a brand-new foreword from the author, a reader’s guide, and more.
Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Genre: Classics, Literature, Dytopian
Release Date: Published 1958 (first published 1954)
Page Count: 223
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 99780571084838
Goodreads Synopsis: Lord of the Flies , William Golding’s classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, “the boy with fair hair,” and Piggy, Ralph’s chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island’s wild pig population. Soon Ralph’s rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: “He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet.” Golding’s gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. —Jennifer Hubert
Where They Found Her
Author: Kimberly McCreight
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Genre: Fiction, Psychological Thriller
Release Date: April 14th 2015
Page Count: 336
Format: ARC sent by Publisher
ISBN: 9780062225467
Goodreads Synopsis: From the author of the New York Times bestseller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery. At the end of a long winter, in bucolic Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town’s prestigious university campus. No one knows who the baby is, or how her body ended up out there. But there is no shortage of opinions. When freelance journalist, and recent Ridgedale transplant, Molly Anderson is unexpectedly called upon to cover the story for the Ridegdale Reader, it’s a risk, given the severe depression that followed the loss of her own baby. But the bigger threat comes when Molly unearths some of Ridgedale’s darkest secrets, including a string of unreported sexual assaults that goes back twenty years. Meanwhile, Sandy, a high school dropout, searches for her volatile and now missing mother, and PTA president Barbara struggles to help her young son, who’s suddenly having disturbing outbursts. Told from the perspectives of Molly, Barbara, and Sandy, Kimberly McCreight’s taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth about the baby’s death revealing that these three women have far more in common than they realized. And that their lives are more intertwined with what happened to the baby than they ever could have imagined.
Attachments (eBook)
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Release Date: April 14th 2011
Page Count: 314
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781101468005
Goodreads Synopsis: “Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you…” Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives. Meanwhile, Lincoln O’Neill can’t believe this is his job now- reading other people’s e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke. When Lincoln comes across Beth’s and Jennifer’s messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can’t help being entertained-and captivated-by their stories. By the time Lincoln realizes he’s falling for Beth, it’s way too late to introduce himself. What would he say . . . ?
Big City Bookworm 
I also plan on reading Attachments! Happy reading!
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