Okay, this month was weird, peculiar! I was at the same time binge-reading books, which is why I read that many books and slumped so hard. For example, I didn’t read a single page during the last week of May.
Due to that, I needed to adapt my Olympus TBR if I didn’t want too many books to lose a life. So after choosing the replacements, I only have one book, which loses a life. However, I didn’t mind as I knew that I would read it at some point like it’s a contemporary romance.
Let’s start with the stats!
Statistics
I’m surprised by how many I read this month; I read 17 books, including 4 re-reads. That means that I read 4,251 pages with an average of 137 pages per day. I spent 14 days reading for a total of 45h58min. The average rating for this month is 4.14 out of 5.
This month, I continue with my romance phase and read mainly that. I still mainly read in physical format, but I also read a lot of e-books which is a good thing as I want to diversify the format I read. The age category was mainly adults with 11 books, but I also read 2 middle grades and 4 young adults. For the author, I discovered three new this month, but mostly it’s some that I had already read.
I still don’t have any bonus card.
Here is the book I read during May with their prompts (if there is one). If you want to read a book’s review, you just need to click on the title.
I put an (x) before the books in the monthly mini-reviews post that will be published on the 02nd of June 2022.
Books
OLYMPUS TBR
Unhinged by Onley James (Indie)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖
I choose this book for an Aphrodite card and the prompt, a book I’m desperate to read. This book replaces It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey. I didn’t wait a lot as after I acquired it, I started to read it right away.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry (Berkley)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖
This book is for Demeter and the prompt paperback. This is the replacement for The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang that I still need to read for the Cliterature Book Club.
(x) Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman (Hodder)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖
This is the replacement for Artemis and the prompt Young Adult. In the beginning, I chose A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow.
OTHER
(x) Psycho by Onley James (Indie)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖
(x) Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman (Hodder)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖
(x) Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman (Hodder)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖
(x) Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman (Hodder)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖
(x) Moonstruck by Onley James (Indie)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖
(x) Headcase by Onley James (Indie)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖.5
(x) Mad Man by Onley James (Indie)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖🫖
READATHONS
(x) Galatea by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury)
Rating: None
This book is the only one that I have read that was in my Olympus TBR. This was for Athena and a historical book. It was also for the prompt gods on the Bookopoly board.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Picador)
Rating: 🫖🫖
I read this book for the Bookoplathon and the prompt colour in the title. I don’t know why, but at the beginning, I wasn’t sure that I could count ‘coffee’ as a colour 🤦🏾♀️.
(x) The Tea Dragon Festival by Kay O’Neill (Oni Press)
Rating: none
This book was for e-books or audiobooks. I read it as an e-book, and I was afraid to read it in this format as I didn’t know how it would look, but I wasn’t bothered by it, so I took the third and last book of the Tea Dragon series in this format too.
(x) The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O’Neill (Oni Press)
Rating: None
As you can guess from my previous statement, yes, I bought it and read it right away. This one was for the small book (<300 pages) prompt. This was one of the first rolls to be done, but I’ve read it in fourth.
(x) Halloween by Carly Spade (Self-pub)
Rating: none
Now I can say that I read a lot in e-book format, but I have an excuse as this one is only available in this format. I used this one for the spooky prompt. I needed to read a book with spooky vibes in it or on the cover. The cover, the title and where the action are set to scream spooky.
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (Pan MacMillan)
Rating: 🫖🫖🫖
I used this book twice. First for the Young Adult prompt (that was in the penultimate roll) and second for water on the cover (there is no water but the colour of my edition is blue.) I knew I couldn’t do all the prompts because when the last two rolls were done, I was only at the beginning of the book, and this book was corresponding to only one out of two.
IN PROGRESS
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey (Avon Books)
Progress: 26%
I started it, but I couldn’t focus on it. I still have no explanations for why it was hard to dive into it and finish it. I don’t know when I will go back to it, but I changed this book for another as it was like cheating as it wasn’t a book I was desperate to read anymore.
Book of Night by Holly Black (Del Rey)
Progress: 8%
Toward the middle of the month, I decided to change the genre of my readings as I was reading romance exclusively. Let me tell you, I tried, but I couldn’t read this book. First, the focus wasn’t there and second, I know this book will be hard to read for me as I have some struggles with believing in this world. Like the fantasy, part is a big question mark for me. I just hope that I won’t DNF it.🤞🏾
LOSE A LIFE
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas (Simon & Schuster)
This book was my pick for Titanomachy in the Olympus TBR game. However, I wasn’t interested in it, and I couldn’t replace it, so it’s the only one of the original Olympus TBR to lose a life.
This month was bizarre as I had two significant periods where I read a lot and two others where I was in a big reading slump. However, with the two readathons, I will be participating in, I hope that this state of mind won’t be there anymore. To be honest, I am so excited to start June (even if I know the big TBR waiting for me.)
And you, which books did you read for this month? Let me know in the comment!
Liz.
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