May TBR Pile (19/25):

1. Book of the Month Club: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

2. BOTM: The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George

3. Girly Book Club: (already caught up)

4. Friend Book Club: The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary ✓

5. MMD RC: Still Life by Louise Penny ✓

6. MMD RC: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown in progress

7. Nonfiction: In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick in progress

8. Nonfiction: Buy Yourself the Fucking Lilies by Tara Schuster ✓

9. Fantasy: Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark ✓

10. Fantasy: Red Queen by Christina Henry ✓

11. Fantasy: Cursed edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane ✓

12. Comic: Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 ✓

13. Comic: Something is Killing the Children Vol. 2 ✓

14. Comic: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol. 1

15. Science Fiction: The Toll by Neal Shusterman ✓

16. Romance: The Sum of All Kisses by Julia Quinn ✓

17. Romance: The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy by Julia Quinn ✓

18. Kid Read Aloud: Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr ✓

19. Kid Read Aloud: The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate ✓

20. Kid Read Aloud: Frog and Toad Collection by Arnold Lobel ✓

21. Added: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo ✓

22. Added: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark ✓

23. Added: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ✓

24. Added: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James ✓

25. 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!

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