#ThrowbackThursday April 2024 (Red Queen)

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I've seen bloggers doing book memes since the minute I started blogging, but I've never taken part in one myself... until now. The one I selected is monthly, and it's called Throwback Thursday. Here are the rules...

  • The Chocolate Lady’s #ThrowbackThursday takes place on the Thursday before the first Saturday of every month
  • You are encouraged to write a post about anything old that strikes your fancy!
  • If you want to tweet or share this post, or someone else’s post, or the reviews being highlighted, please use #ThrowbackThursday!
  • Please link back to her original page on your post. (here's the link!)
So, without further ado, let's get right into it!

this time last year, i was reading...

On April 3 2023, I finished "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard, and borrowed "Glass Sword" by Victoria Aveyard on the same day.

I have an app on my computer named Sora to read books, and one of the cool features is that it shows a full history of all the books you checked out and when. So I scrolled all the way down to April 2023, and as you can see, I was going through a Red Queen phase back then.

On April 3, I marked "Red Queen" as done, and borrowed "Glass Sword", the second book in the series. Then, ten days later, I marked that as done and checked out "King's Cage", which is the third book.

thank you for joining me!





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