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Missed out on two reads this month but I‘m hoping I‘ll get to them next month! May was a fabulous reading month! And I realized I haven‘t even reviewed all of these here so I‘ll need to catch up. I‘d recommend all of these titles! #bookspinbingo Several bingos!

15 books for May! A good mix, I think. I seem to be reading a lot of memoirs this year. They‘ve been enlightening. #mayreads

Here‘s how many books I read in May. This month, I focused on reading books I borrowed from #kindleunlimited and #primereading. I had a free 3 month trial of #kindleunlimited. I didn‘t read as many books as I wanted to read from #kindleunlimited because I was worried that I was going to forget to cancel my free trial. I haven‘t decided if I want to have a subscription to KU yet. I don‘t know if it‘s better than #primereading or not.

Latest #bookhaul includes the tagged that I picked up at a Little Free Library yesterday while dropping off a couple books. The rest are ones that *somehow* made their way into my cart when I was purchasing a book for the #litsyrecipeswap. Can‘t imagine how that happened 😆

Plus a nice warm weather nightgown and robe because what else am I going to wear while reading 📖

This is incredibly overdue, but I've been kind of "meh" with posting to various social media things. I've been reading...more slowly than normal...but not so much with the online engaging. May was a pretty good month. Revisited some old friends, picked back up a favorite genre, and spent some time with a few debuts.

Now to get caught up posting the things I've read so fast in June...

Books completed during May!
7 total out of 27 this year
6 female authors
3 POC authors
2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1 #booked2020 #panasianauthor
1 #mountTBR
1 #virtualmountTBR
#maystats

It's June!!!! May just flew by, didn't it?

I had the best reading month so far this year! My library finally got Hoopla so getting #audiobooks in now is a breeze.

13 books off my #bookspinbonanza list
1 #ARC
3 library holds
1 DNF

I didn't get all the way through my #TBR but I got a lot of unread books off my shelf and I'm happy with that.

Here's hoping #readyoursign keeps this going into June

@TheAromaofBooks
#MayWrapUp

A pretty solid month for it being the last month of school... bring on summer!

9 books finished

#maystats #magicalmay @Eggs

I continue reading for #NutsinMay Readathon. But first, some power running in the mornings. El Morro in Old San Juan. Today was like a trail running all around El Morro. @Andrew65

#MayTBR #MagicalMay

These are my initial plans for May.

May #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

#bookspin list for May...
@TheAromaofBooks

#BookSpin for May May this be a better month for accomplishing goals. I‘m going for all 20. @TheAromaofBooks 🤞😳

May Stats.
This may be my slowest reading year of the past decade. I‘m struggling to find books I love and it‘s taking forever to finish the ones I start. Mostly 3 ⭐️ reads this month; a few 3.5 or 4 ⭐️s.

#may #stats

Books read: 10
Pages read: 3,495
DNF: 1
Women authors: 9
POC authors: 4
Favorite: A Place for Us
Longest: Queen of Air and Darkness - 880 pages
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⭐️: 0
⭐️⭐️: 2
⭐️⭐️⭐️: 3
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: 4
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: 1

#maywrapup

April was a slow month for me, so I am hoping to get back on track in May! #tbr

My May #TBR pile! On the Docket:
3 Audiobooks
3 physical books
5 Kindle books
I will probably read more but I want to make sure I make a big dent on books I already own!
#MayReads

I enjoyed this middle grade story of a boy who survives a plane crash but can not speak for a time. I felt the family dynamics were realistic and Wayne‘s inner voice was s hoot.

tfw you're getting rid of a few books. 😭

Great YA read, my 7th graders will love it!

My May plans. The top 3 are in progress, the bottom 5 are next. #maytbr #tbr #readinglist

Wayne Kovok survives a plane crash, but suffers a throat injury that leaves him without a voice. This is a serious blow, since he's used to spouting off random facts to fill up the awkward silences in his life. By not talking, he learns to listen, observe, & communicate more effectively. This is also a story about dealing with grief.

The writing is sometimes gimmicky ("true story") but still smart & enjoyable. I laughed, cried, & learned.

Fun fact from Mayday: emu eggs are emerald green. Who knew?!

"That's all she wants to watch sometimes. Movies where people use fake British accents and run through the fields and yell, 'Oh, I think I'll run through this field in search of a husband!'"

Happy St. Joseph's Day!

"I hoped I hadn't perspired too much during the run. I had precalculated the amount of Axe body spray I needed to use to make me smell acceptable by the time Sandy arrived. Two and a half sprays. That's the right amount. Anything more overpowers the bus. You learn this in sixth grade when a mean eighth-grade girl says, 'You smell like you want to be alone.' True story."

The narrator gets told this for wearing too much Axe body spray. I might have to use this sometime.

Meet Wayne Kovok: plane crash survivor, descendant of war heroes, random trivia expert, and above all, just a kid trying to find his voice--literally and figuratively. I've been a Karen Harrington fan since her first MG debut, Sure Signs of Crazy, and her third book is 3 for 3 in awesomeness!