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I love today's Top Ten Tuesday theme :  May Flowers — Pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt ( books with flowers on the cover, flower names in the title, characters whose names are flower names, stories involving flowers/gardeners ). I mostly went with books with flowers (usually characters' names) or gardens in the title and often on the cover as well. These include some very old and very new favorites of mine, as well as books on my TBR! A Blooming Bouquet of Books  with Flower Names, Covers, and Stories Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott--A classic childhood fav. Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott--One of the few Alcott books I didn't read as a kid but finally got around to in the last several years. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen--Gardening and flowers are central here! The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett--I bet a lot of people will mention this one! The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer-

Pretty decent reading list in April--I finished some books I've been meaning to read for a while. I've also been reading six or seven books at a time (several are nonfiction or poetry) for the first time in a while, and it's some glorious chaos, we'll see whether that continues or not. I may need to not be in four book clubs anymore, although it still feels ok so far--maybe easier to just give myself to permission to give up on a book I'm not feeling. Anyway, happy May! Books I Finished in April 2024  The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman--I finally got to see what all the hype was about--and it was pretty decent. Not the best book I've read ever, but a very solid mystery set in a senior living community in the United Kingdom. I would be interested in continuing to read the series.  The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley (Book club read)--I wouldn't have heard of this except that one of my book clubs picked it. I thought it was fi