May 2021 Wrap-up
- monthly wrap-up
May TBR Pile (19/25):
- Book of the Month Club: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
- BOTM: The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George
- Girly Book Club: (already caught up)
- Friend Book Club: The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary ✓
- MMD RC: Still Life by Louise Penny ✓
- MMD RC: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown in progress
- Nonfiction: In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick in progress
- Nonfiction: Buy Yourself the Fucking Lilies by Tara Schuster ✓
- Fantasy: Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark ✓
- Fantasy: Red Queen by Christina Henry ✓
- Fantasy: Cursed edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane ✓
- Comic: Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 ✓
- Comic: Something is Killing the Children Vol. 2 ✓
- Comic: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol. 1
- Science Fiction: The Toll by Neal Shusterman ✓
- Romance: The Sum of All Kisses by Julia Quinn ✓
- Romance: The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy by Julia Quinn ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Frog and Toad Collection by Arnold Lobel ✓
- Added: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo ✓
- Added: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark ✓
- Added: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ✓
- Added: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James ✓
- Added: The Book That Made Me edited by Judith Ridge ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 5469 pages Pages Remaining: 474,527 pages
Current Read - Daring Greatly by Brene Brown; In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick; The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov; Bellamy and the Brute by Alicia Michaels
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books Bought/Received (1) - My BOTM of the month selection was Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. I can’t wait to dive into this one!
UnRead Shelf Progress
- Starting Number: 280
- Books Read: 2
- Books Acquired: 1
- Books Unshelved: 0
- Finishing Number: 279
June TBR Pile: I’m taking a break from the big TBR list and leaving everything open for June. I know there are few books I want to get to (book club selection and library books), but I’m going to let my mood lead my reading this month.
Movies watched
- Mortal Kombat (2021) - Pretty decent action movie.
- Raising Arizona - A rewatch, but it’s been at least 15 years. Still holds up!
- 10 Cloverfield Lane - This was surprisingly good.
- Ghost Rider 2 - How did I miss this ridiculous Nicholas Cage movie? Goodness that was silly.
- Wrath of Man - Back to what Guy Ritchie does best. Oh so good!
- Cruella - I absolutely loved that one!
TV Shows watched
- The Queen’s Gambit S1 - We sped through this one and it was delightful!
- Calls S1 - So incredibly strange, but I loved it.
- Star Trek: Voyager S3 - Still plugging along, watching all of Trek.
- Below Deck: Sailing Yacht S2 - My silly guilty pleasure show.
- Hustle S1-2 - J wanted me to start this one… decent so far.
Comments - May was a great month for books, movies, TV, and all around fun!
Next up on the TBR pile:
