Hello!

I’ve been here for a little while now, but I realized I never really did a proper introduction.

I’m April, I’m 32, and I’m from Canada. Fantasy is probably my favourite genre, but I try to branch out quite a bit. I also really love science fiction and historical fiction, and I’ve been making an effort to read more non-fiction.

Some of my favourite series are The Lord of the Rings, Throne of Glass, The Cinder Spires, and The Captive’s War. LOTR has been a favourite for a very long time, to the point that my husband and I had a Lord of the Rings themed wedding.

I read a lot and I love keeping track of it all. I have a reading spreadsheet, do different reading challenges, keep a giant TBR, and am always happy to get recommendations. I’m definitely a mood reader, so what I pick up next can be all over the place.

Outside of reading, I run a small stim toy business and several blogs. A lot of my writing focuses on trauma, BPD, disability, relationships, mental health, healthy communication, and realistic positivity. I’m also a writer myself and have been working on books about BPD and trauma.

I love video games and play mostly on PS5. I’m also really into baking, cooking, meal prepping, canning, and generally finding some new project to get absorbed in. I’m one of those people who genuinely enjoys organizing and tracking things, so there is a spreadsheet or system for a surprising amount of my life.

I’m a huge animal person, especially dogs. I have a Japanese Mastiff named Kumi, and I’ve also been fascinated by wolves since I was a kid. I actually started studying them for fun in elementary school and that interest never really went away.

I’m married, spend a lot of time with my husband and dog, and am usually either reading, writing, gaming, baking something, working on one of my businesses or blogs, or planning whatever project I’ve decided to take on next.

I’m on StoryGraph and Instagram under Aprilthebookqueen, and I’d love to connect with more people here. I’m always up for book recommendations, talking about what we’re currently reading, or finding more people with overlapping interests.

Edited: Sep 2026 once I was able to showcase my about me post…

Now that there is markdown and it is easier to post pics, I'd love to see some of your reading buddies if you're comfortable sharing!

I tried searching to see if someone made this post before, and I only saw one from before markdown and pics, so I thought I'd make this! Don't feel pressured if you aren't comfortable of course. I just love the happy little boost I get from seeing pets.

(I strongly encourage kitty toe beans.)

If you don't know, for easy access, this is the code for images (minus the two spaces - one after the ! and one after url)

! [Image](http://url /a.png)

https://freeimage.host/ is a great site to just upload and get the code right away!

I spent way too many hours making a reading challenge spreadsheet for myself, so I figured I'd share it in case anyone else thinks it sounds fun.

I wanted a reading challenge that would take me a really long time to finish. Like, realistically, probably years if I ever decide to go for full completion.

The idea started with a simple question:

What if an alphabet challenge wasn't just one book per letter?

Instead of reading one book for A and moving on, you can keep working on A by finding books with different cover colours.

Maybe your first A book has a red cover. Then later you find a blue one. Then a green one.

The challenge combines an alphabet challenge with a cover colour challenge. Every letter has 12 colour prompts, so you can keep working on a letter instead of immediately moving on to the next one. Or you can jump all around. Whatever you want! There are different achievements and 'tiers' so you can still get them even if you don't complete letters! I did make the rules a bit lax for the letter part to make it more reader friendly. It can come from the title or the author name.

You can play casually and just fill in a few colours here and there, or go completely overboard and try to complete every colour for every letter.

Naturally, I went completely overboard and built a spreadsheet for it.

The spreadsheet includes:

-Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers for every letter -28 achievements (these will fill in automatically if you tick in the tracker) -Automatic progress tracking -Reading statistics -A book log -Achievement tracking

My favourite part is probably the achievement system. It gives the challenge a bit of a game-like feel and breaks things up with goals beyond simply filling in boxes.

I had a lot of fun putting this together, and I'm excited to start using it myself. If it sounds like your kind of thing, feel free to check it out!

Rainbow ABC's Challenge Spreadsheet

I'll include a couple sheet screenshots in the comments!

Edit: Feel free to come back to this post and share when you get achievements or tiers! I’d so love to cheer you on!

Also don’t hesitate to let me know if something doesn’t work! I did my best to test every formula but I could have missed something.