April 2026 Reading Wrap Up: reading all the trendy novels in one go & creative burnout
April was a real start and stop reading month for me. Bursts of productivity, stretches of nothing. I only did my March wrap-up on Instagram, but it was a much more productive reading month. I finished 10 books in March, and I think I got a little burnt out. I felt like I needed to be on top of everything in March—reading for the blog and the books I was reviewing for the newspaper, doing all the readings for class and providing feedback, working on my own class assignments. It didn't leave much breathing room, and in April, I crashed. I let myself have a little room to focus on socializing, resting, and letting myself come back to reading as I felt drawn to it, rather than forcing myself to hit metrics like in March. That was part of the reason why there wasn't a March Reading Wrap Up because I was just so overwhelmed at that point with the end of classes. In April, I had trips to London and Galway planned and was trying to get in as much time with friends as possible before w...
