May Wrap-Up and June Goals

May Reads

May Wrap-Up

• Finished: 4
• Started/continued but not finished: 3
• Total pages read: 2,278
• Average rating: 3.75

I finished four books in May, and two of them were novels. I read a far-future science fiction The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson (3/5 stars). The writing was good and the world building was interesting, but the book wasn’t for me. I prefer my books with more focus on characters and less on politics and complex world building, but I can recommend it to avid science fiction readers.

I finally finished The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (5/5 stars). As you can see from the rating, I loved the book! It had a huge page count, but it’s a classic well worth reading. The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi (4/5 stars) I finished on June 1, so it will technically part of the June wrap-up, but I have the review up already. Click the links to read my reviews of the novels.

I also finished two non-fiction books, The Search for the Ancient Novel edited by James Tatum and A Companion to the Ancient Novel edited by Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne. As the titles suggest, they were about the ancient Greek novels.

June Hopefuls

June Hopefuls

In May, I started three books that I will finish in June: The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi (already finished, like I said above), Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (also already finished by the time this post goes live), and Collected Ancient Greek Novels (almost there). In addition, I plan to read two more books from my bookshelves: a fantasy novel Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao and a nonfiction book about a year in medieval Finland, Vuosi keskiajan Suomessa by Ilari Aalto and Elina Helkala. And when I go to visit my mother later this month, I try to read one or two books from her bookshelves!

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If you want to see more about the books I’ve read, check out my reading wrap-up video below: