Month in Review: May 2021

Here we are again with another monthly wrap-up! It was a great month…it seemed a bit long, but I had a great month of reading, though most of the books were review books. I am shocked at all the great books that continue to be published, though that does make it hard to make time for my own books. I need to get better at balancing that…but hopefully this coming month I’ll be able to sneak in a few.

On the blog front, I finally made the move from blogger to wordpress and I am loving it! I now own the domain and while I’m still getting used to the back-end of things, I think it was a good move.

 

Reading Stats:

• Read this month: 31
• Year to date: 138
  

Books Read:     

1. An Invincible Summer — Mariah Stewart (audio book)
2. A Caller’s Game — J.D. Barker (audio book)
3. The Girl Who Died — Ragnar Jonasson
4. The Newcomer — Mary Kay Andrews (audio book)
5. Random Road — Thomas Kies (audio book)
6. Thief of Souls — Brian Klingborg
7. The Whispering Dead — Darcy Coates
8. It Had to be You — Georgia Clark (audio book)
9. You Will Remember Me — Hannah Mary McKinnon (e-book)
10. Every Vow You Break — Peter Swanson
11. The Photographer — Mary Dixie Carter (audio book)
12. The Last One Home — Victoria Helen Stone
13. Twice a Daughter — Julie Ryan McGue
14. The Summer of Lost & Found— Mary Alice Monroe (audio book)
15. The Woman With the Blue Star — Pam Jenoff (audio book)
16. Local Woman Missing — Mary Kubica
17. The Last Thing He Told Me — Laura Dave (audio book)
18. Legacy — Nora Roberts (audio book)
19. The Savage Instinct — M.M. DeLuca
20. The Dark Corners of the Night — Meg Gardiner
21. House of Crows — Lisa Unger (audio book)
22. Firekeeper’s Daughter — Angelina Boulley (audio book)
23. Dear Seraphina — Avery Bishop (audio book)
24. Every Last Fear — Alex Finlay
25. The Missing Sister — Lucinda Riley (e-book)
26. Little Siberia — Antti Tuomainen
27. Beneath Devil’s Bridge — Loreth Anne White
28. Our Woman in Moscow — Beatriz Williams
29. The Murmur of Bees — Sofia Segovia (audio book)
30. The New Normal — Jennifer Ashton
31. The Stepsisters — Susan Mallery

 
Favorite Books of May:     

• You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon
• Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

 

This year I am all about the numbers. I decided that I am not doing any challenges, but I am going to pay attention to my own stats. This may or may not change as the year goes on…we shall see.

Books read that were published this year:  28  (108 YTD)

And of those, how many were review books:  27  (108 YTD)

Backlist review books read:  0  (11 YTD)

Books read off my own shelf (not review books):  3  (16 YTD)

Books bought/won in giveaways:  5  (26 YTD)