A detailed look at May’s reading habits: I read 33 books in May where all 13 re-reads were above 4-stars and only one book was from my Up Next Shelf.
Overview
| May’s Blog Updates | May’s Bookish Posts |
|---|---|
| 📖 Weekly Wrap: May 3rd to May 9th 📖 Weekly Wrap: May 10th to May 16th 📖 Weekly Wrap: May 17th to May 23rd 📖 Weekly Wrap: May 24th to May 30th | 📚 12 New Books: Maytime Book Haul 📚 36 Romantic Reads in April |
Outline
May Reflection and Into June
My May Wrap Up is yet another Monthly Wrap posted at the end of the following month instead of the beginning 😅. I think I will have to suck it up and post my June Wrap a week or two after this post to break the cycle. Also, as you’ll see later on, there’s no summary of my reviews because I didn’t post any book reviews in May 🤯.
Interestingly, all my 5-stars books in May were re-reads, as well as a majority of my 4-star reads:
- 3 of 4 of my 4.5-stars were re-reads,
- all 3 of my 4.25-stars were re-reads, and
- 5 of 10 of my 4-stars were re-reads.
The remaining (12) books – 3.75-stars and below – were all new reads. Hence, why I’m calling May 2021 the “month of re-reads.” Even though my re-reads weren’t half of the books I read in May (13 of 31), May has the most books in the re-read category in 2021. And, of the 19 books, I rated 4-stars and above, 13 were re-reads – so every single re-read was rated 4-stars or above. Considering how comforting I find re-reads and the pace of change (and stress) I was experiencing in May, it makes sense I re-read so many books.
Only one book I read in May was from my Up Nex Shelf. I’m proud to report I read two of my three books on my minimum to-be-read list: Memory Serves by Lee Maracle and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.
Books I Read This Month
Key: 🔁 re-read | 🤓 reviewed on this blog | 📜 Up Next Shelf
• All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata 🔁
• Scarlett XOXO by Autumn Reed 🔁
• Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, #1) by Ilona Andrews 🔁
• White Hot (Hidden Legacy, #2) by Ilona Andrews 🔁
• Wildfire (Hidden Legacy, #3) by Ilona Andrews 🔁
• The Bombshell Effect (Washington Wolves, #1) by Karla Sorensen 🔁
• The Marriage Effect (Washington Wolves, #3) by Karla Sorensen 🔁
• Tribe (Chosen, #2) by Stacy Jones 🔁
• Tribe Protector (Chosen, #3) by Stacy Jones 🔁
• Memory Serves by Lee Maracle 📜
• Bad Guy by Ruby Dixon
• Merry Inkmas by Talia Hibbert
• Bulky by Jessa Kane
• Souls Unfractured (Hades Hangmen, #3) by Tillie Cole 🔁
• Forbidden (Ward Sisters, #4) by Karla Sorensen
• The Match (It Happened in Charleston, #1) by Sarah Adams
• Vampire Debt (Vampire Debt, #2) by Kelly St. Clare 🔁
• Death Game (Vampire Debt, #3) by Kelly St. Clare 🔁
• Fake (West Hollywood, #1) by Kylie Scott
• Making Her Mine by Ella Goode
• Love You Always by Lucy Darling
• Room for Three by Ivy Fox
• Protecting What’s Mine by Ella Goode
• Make Me a Match by Ella Goode
• His to Keep by MINK
• Talk Wordy to Me (His Curvy Librarian, #1) by Frankie Love with Kaylin Evans
• Bad Girl by Ella Goode
• The Enemy (It Happened in Charleston, #2) by Sarah Adams
• The Hardest Cut by Jamie Bennett @ after Chapter 1
• Expose (Eagle Tactical, #1) by Willow Fox @ 21%
Book Types: Most books were on Kindle Unlimited (23).
Rating Distribution: Most May reads were 4-stars (18).
May Breakdown
Want to Read from this month
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Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh
★
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Finn by E.M. Moore
★
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Most Favourite and Least Favourite*
*Can’t be a re-read
Most Favourite: Memory Serves by Lee Maracle. See why here.
Least Favourite: The Animal Within by Jisa Dean. See why here.
Longest and Shortest Books
Longest Book: All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata at 551 pages
Shortest Book: Talk Wordy to Me by Frankie Love with Kaylin Evans at 68 pages
Statistics
Most Read Genre: HEA Erotica (8).
Origin Breakdown: Most of the books I read were “instant” reads (18), meaning I purchased and immediately read them.
Most Read Author: Ella Goode with four books (4)!
*Person of Colour includes non-white human characters in fantasy novels
Best Performing Bookstagram Posts
My June Hopefuls
As I mentioned earlier, I finished two of my three May Hopefuls; I’m still reading Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. My June Hopefuls comprises three novellas: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange and Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark. I’m like how this selection of books to read includes nonfiction, feminism, anti-racism and historical fantasy.
Anticipated June Releases
To Sir, With Love by Lauren Layne
Releasing June 29th
The Princess Stakes by Amalie Howard
Releasing June 29th
See my Upcoming Release page for more of the books I’m looking forward to in June!
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congrats on such a successful reading month!! wow.
thanks so much!
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