May Wrap-Up and June Hopefuls

May reads

May Wrap-Up

• Finished: 11
• Started but not finished: 1
• Total pages read: 4,102
• Average rating: 4.25

I read a lot of books in May! Four of them were novels. I read the last two books in Saara El-Arifi’s fantasy trilogy The Ending Fire, The Battle Drum (3/5 stars) and The Ending Fire (4/5 stars). I also read the first book in Hannah Kaner’s fantasy trilogy Fallen Gods, Godkiller (4.5/5 stars). And I reread Suzanne Collins’s YA dystopian fiction The Hunger Games. Since that book is so well-known by this point, I’m not reviewing it. Suffice it to say that it’s still worth five stars. You can find my reviews of the other three books behind the links.

The remaining seven books were nonfiction. I read three writing guides in preparation for the outlining process of my current WIP (you can read more about how I outlined that project here). Two were about the ancient Greek novels, and two were research for my current WIP. A notable nonfiction read in May was David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work and What We Can Do About It (5/5 stars). I highly recommend it if you’ve ever felt like your job is meaningless.

 

June Hopefuls

June hopefuls

In June, my goal is to read five books. I’m currently in the middle of Susan Faludi’s Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women that I started back in April. I’ve also started Sarah Brooks’s steampunk fantasy The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, and I want to read Jacqueline Woodson’s novel in verse Brown Girl Dreaming. The final two books I want to read I’ll pick up from my mother’s bookshelf when I go visit her later this month.

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If you want to hear more about the books I read in May, I have a reading wrap-up video up on YouTube.