🌸 may reading 🌸
It’s time for another monthly reading recap!
I meant to post this two weeks ago, but life happened. I was all excited to get back to blogging, and then my busy schedule tag-teamed me with my mental health. 💀 But I’m making it! May was a mediocre reading month, as it marked the start of a slump that is still kicking my ass several weeks later.
✨ month at a glance ✨
- books completed: 10
- books DNFed: 3
- avg rating: 3.9
- avg pages read per day: 106
- best book(s): Funny Story
- worst book(s): Winter 🙈
✨ ratings ✨
(each title link will direct you to my review for more thoughts!)
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🎁 review copy | 💞 buddy/group read | 🔁 re-read | 🎧 audiobook
5 stars
- Savage Bonds by J. Bree 💞🎧
- Gemina by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff 💞🔁🎧
- Bluejay by Megan Stockton 💞
- Funny Story by Emily Henry 🎁💞🎧
- Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis 🎁
4 & 4.5 stars
- Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image by Siobhan Gallagher 🎁
3 & 3.5 stars
- Thalassophobia by John Durgin
- Reading the Stars: Astrology for Book Lovers by Book Riot
2 & 2.5 stars
- Deceived by Jennifer Rose
- Devil Inside by Kenya Moss-Dyme
1 & 1.5 stars
- nothing this month
DNF
- Winter by Marissa Meyer 💞🎧
- Foxglove by Adalyn Grace 💞🎧
- Murder Road by Simone St. James 🎁💞🎧
✨ hauls ✨
purchases:
My only purchases in May were two pre-orders I placed months ago, my final book sub box, and a cheap ebook! 🥳
- The Proper Thing and Other Stories by Seanan McGuire (pre-order)
- Evocation by S.T. Gibson (Fairyloot pre-order)
- A Curse of Blood and Wolves by Melissa McTernan (Fairyloot)
- Panic Playhouse by Remy Oliver (kindle purchase)
review copies:
- The Truest Sense: A Collection of Horrors by Laura Keating
- Words Made of Flesh by R.A. Busby
- An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
- The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir
- Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations―and Take Over Our Lives by J.W. Ocker
- Against Medical Advice by Ruth Anna Evans
- Give Unto Us by Justin Lutz
- My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine
How was your month? What was your favorite book you read or hauled, or what was something nice that happened in your life?
— destiny ♥
mistysbookspace
June 17, 2024May was my worst reading month so far this year as well. I’m sorry you’ve been fighting a slump and have had some not so great mental heath days. I hope June is treating you better.
Kristina
June 17, 2024Uhoh not a reading slump! Im lucky enough not having fell in one of those yet.. i’m still ahead!
Full of myself & read the stars sounds good