Feature | Goodbye April ~ Hello May

Goodness, these weeks are flying by! I can't believe I'm on my second Goodbye ~

Hello post already.

To recap, this is wrap up post of the month just gone and a look at what I have coming up in the next month.

April has been a busy month personally, but book and blog wise I posted six reviews along with various My Book Corner features and a whole bunch of cover reveals and guest posts for blog tours.

Here are the books I've reviewed, please click on the images to read.

March saw Lozza's Book Corner take part in six blog tours covering a mixture of reviews, guest posts and Q&A's. I would also again like to thank Tracey Sinclair, Helena Sheffield, Laurie Ellingham, Victoria Walters and Isabelle Broom for taking part in the My Book Corner feature.

This feature has really taken off in the last month, as I put a pinned tweet up and I'm now scheduled up until the beginning of August with a host of bloggers and authors taking part!

It's been a good month for receiving books too. 

Thanks to some amazing publishers my TBR is never ending and the new titles added are:

eBooks

The Summer We Danced -Fiona Harper

An Autumn Affair & A Summer of Secrets - Both by Alice Ross

The Summer Flings Travel Club - Aimee Duffy

Something Old, Something New - Darcie Boleyn

Summer at the Cornish Cafe - Phillipa Ashley

The Secret of Orchard Cottage - Alex Brown

Cupcakes and Confetti - Jane Linfoot

Paperbacks

The Assistants - Camille Perri

Martini Henry - Sara Crow

Mad Girl -Bryony Gordon

And finally, March saw the blog have a little makeover. 

I'm one of these that are never happy until it's just right and can now say that I love the new header, ratings image and signature to sign my post's off with. I now just need to decide whether to keep the floral background or revert to one that's not so busy - please let me know your thoughts as you are the ones that read the blog after all!

Moving on to the month ahead then..

As a general rule, I love May. I love seeing the blossom on the blossom on the trees and the feeling that the weather is starting to get warmer, but it's also a bitter sweet month for me too.

It's my birthday month and my late Nan's birthday is the day after mine. We always used to have lunch together and then enjoy tea and cake - she was the only other person I knew that put the milk in first and had her tea milky so it was out treat to have together without the rest of the family passing comment!

I'm not sure what I am doing for my actual birthday yet (other than working...boo!) but I am hoping to go away the weekend after to spend some time with my nieces and nephew.

I've kept the diary fairly empty for this month. I'm on a few blog tours and have a couple of cover reveals planned but I'm concentrating on attacking the TBR throughout May.

As well as the books mentioned in the above TBR list, the following three are right at the top!

The One We Fell In Love With - Paige Toon

Always With Love - Giovanna Fletcher

Lovers and Liars - Nigel May

Wishing you all a fabulous month of reading!

Feature | Goodbye March ~ Hello April

Gosh another month gone already.. time certainly flies doesn't it.

So, welcome to another new feature here on Lozza's Book Corner. I'm been toying with the idea of doing something like this for a while now - a few of my blogging buddies do weekly wrap ups / stacking the shelves features but due to my work hours fluctuating recently I'm not sure I could commit to weekly posts.

Monthly "wrap up/ TBR" posts also seem quite popular but I didn't want to title the post "March Wrap Up & April TBR" like everyone else - especially as I feel thats a little restrictive to purely books I've read and books I plan to read.

Therefore, for the time being, "Goodbye Month.... Hello Month" seems to fit my needs better - best get on with it then eh?!

Lots happened in March actually so here's a summery;

I read and reviewed a total of 4 books and 4 novella's -

Books

Wicked Dix by Monica James

Sleepless in Manhattan by Sarah Morgan

The Night That Changed Everything by Laura Tait and Jimmy Rice

Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel by Jane Costello

Novella's

I'm Not In Love 

Ways To Say Goodbye

One Starry Night

all by Tilly Tennant

The Summer I Met You by Victoria Walters

One book I started reading and yet to finish is Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan. This was kindly provided as a review book from the Love Reading panel and although it isn't my usual genre it does have a really good story line. What I am finding tough though is the writing style - I'm finding myself having to re-read paragraphs as they go off track at times and so it's a slow progress, that said, I shall keep at it as i really want to know the outcome!

I had one guest review also in March from Katrina who read Jane Fallon's Strictly Between Us.

I was lucky enough to receive some fabulous book post this month too - thank you publishers. From now on I'll log what books I get within the month - I was't very organised for this post haha!

March also saw Lozza's Book Corner partake in 7 blog tours... two for Avon with The Woman Who Upped & Left and Mean Sisters, The Love Triangle with Harper Impulse, Faerie Wedding with Neverland Blog Tours and with Brook Cottage Books I took part in all three of the Tilly Tennant books mentioned earlier.

Event wise I popped down the road to Southampton for Catherine Miller's book launch where we enjoyed tea and cake! I also visited London for the Spring Blogger Event and Salisbury just last night for an evening with Joanna Cannon.

Finally, I started off the 'My Book Corner' feature. Two others joined me this month sharing their books and work spaces - thank you again JB from Brook Cottage Books and Kate of Bibliophile Book Club.

I'm going to start Hello April simply with Cover Reveals.

Thanks to Helena at Avon there's quite a few coming up over the next few weeks.

Speaking of the lovely Helena, she joins me on the blog this month sharing her Book Corner. 

My Book Corner is posted on the blog on Sunday's and is open to bloggers, authors and publishers alike - as long as your a avid book reader you can take part.

So far for April I have 5 blog tours planned including The Wedding Date and Shtum to name a couple.

At the end of the month I'm going to an evening with Erica James and there are two book launches I'm hoping to attend - Isabelle Broom's for My Map of You and Victoria Walters for The Second Love of my Life - both of these will also have reviews up this month.

To finish this post then, the books from my TBR other than those mentioned for tours, that I'm hoping to read are;

One in a Million Boy - Monica Wood

The Second Chance Shoe Shop - Marcie Steel

The Summer We Danced - Fiona Harper

Who's That Girl? - Mhairi McFarlane

Wish me luck please?! What do you plan to read during April? Comment below or tweet me @LozzaBookCorner as I'd love to know.

Happy Reading!