May in life and reading #Monthlywrapup
Hello readers! I hope you are well and had a marvelous May. May has been both good and bad.
Here is how May in life and reading was –
May in Life
I hate summer and high temperatures here. It forces us to coop up in the air-conditioned room but this time we couldn’t even do that. We could tolerate rats and cockroaches but then A.C. stopped working. The house we’re living in is really old and all things including A.C. belongs to the owner which is as dated as the house. We repaired it six times in the past two and half years we were living in the house and now it is in no condition of repair. We were anyhow vacating the house in July thinking we will live at my parents’ home for one month but no A.C. made us move to my parents’ house earlier!
We haven’t moved all things to my parents’ house yet as my brother and his wife are expecting a baby and there will be baby shower on the 11th of this month but once the baby shower is over we will slowly move out things clean the place and handover keys by the end of June.
A week ago the weather improved a lot. A cyclone passed through here that brought rain and for the first time in my life, it snowed in my hometown. My parents said it’s the fourth time in their lifetime. It made us pretty excited. Of course, it’s not going to make much difference, we still need fans and A.C. but the weather has been much much better these last 3-4 days.
We got our house registration papers and we are finally expecting our house keys next week. I also got physical books from publisher, two of which was children’s book that my kid loved. Surprisingly I could read more this month. Here is what I read-
Reading Stats
Books read – 10
Total Pages – 3394
Goodreads Challenge – 38/60
Romance – 3
Fantasy – 2
Contemporary fiction – 2
Middle grade – 1
Children’s book – 2
May in Reading
(click on the title to read full review)
Twisted Games is a gripping, addictive, and swoon-worthy forbidden romance with an amazing plot and characters. I wasn’t comfortable with some scenes but otherwise I enjoyed this even more than Twisted Love. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Twisted Hate is engaging, addictive, touching, and emotive enemies-to-lovers romance with amazing characters and their touching back story. I wasn’t a fan of hate sex in this but I loved the characters, especially Jules and her backstory. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Twisted Lies is gripping, swoon-worthy, slow-burn, fake dating romance with amazing plot and characters. I loved this most in this entire series. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Grabber is an interesting genre mix middle-grade fantasy with an amazing concept and plot but I didn’t enjoy the execution. However, this can surely fascinate young readers. ⭐⭐⭐
In the Bear’s Den and Strangus Derangus are fun, cute, and lovely illustrated children’s stories of the adventures of an Indian boy and his love for animals. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Widow’s Weeds is touching, emotive and heart-wrenching contemporary about domestic abuse but I didn’t enjoy the slow pace and romantic complications. I loved Viola’s story and her perspective but I didn’t enjoy the continuation of Maisie’s story but the theme and layers in this are excellent. ⭐⭐⭐.5
Deadbeat Druid is imaginative, thrilling, and well-written urban fantasy with journey to the underworld and amazing character growth. It took me time to get hooked to the story and I wish certain aspects were more explored. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Daydreams is emotive, realistic, dramatic and fast-paced character-driven reunion contemporary fiction with redemption arc and complex characters.⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
The Lord of Stariel is interesting, dramatic, and fast-paced cozy fantasy with amazing setting and concept but the mysteries and twists and turns were predictable. We know characters are on surface level, I could understand them but there wasn’t much emotional depth. Maybe that is because it’s the first book in a series. I will how next book turns out. I might rate this 3.
Best book of the Month
Best Character of the Month
Christian – Twisted Lies
Jules – Twisted Hate
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Plans for June
Me and Toni are buddy reading Bloodmarked once my kid’s school starts and baby shower is over.
Moving our belongings to my mom’s place.
Read at least 6 books.
Finish the Stariel series.
Start another embroidery project.
Thank you for reading! Let’s chat..,
How was your May?
Have you read any of these books?
What are your plans for June?
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Books Teacup and Reviews
Hi, I'm Yesha, an Indian book blogger. Avid and eclectic reader who loves to read with a cup of tea. Not born reader but I don't think I’m going to stop reading books in this life. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
16 Comments
Carla
Wow, it sure sounds like you have a lot going on in your personal life right now, Yesha. How happy you will be when you finally move into your new home. Good luck with all that upcoming stuff. You had a good reading month as well. I love when I can binge read a series. I hope June is a better month weather wise and that you get everything done you need to do.
Books Teacup and Reviews
Thank you, Carla! These next few months are going to be more busy and looking at how things are going I might have less time to blog but I hope I can manage everything.
Carla
That is understandable, Yesha. I hope it all goes smoothly.
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Eustacia | Eustea Reads
No AC sounds terrible! Good thing you could go to your parents’ house for a cooler environment. I hope your housemoving (this month?) goes well!
Have a fantastic June – both on and off the page!
Books Teacup and Reviews
House moving to my parents’ house is this month. We just got our house keys so interior is working on furniture and lights for next two months. Yes, it’s great we could move to my parents’ house for these couple of month until our house is ready.
Hooked By That Book
Sorry to hear about your AC woes. Hope you love your new house. I like Ana Huang and Twisted Hate was my favorite in that series. I like her latest series a bit more. Hope June is also a great reading month.
Rosepoint Publishing
Sorry about the temps! We’ve been experiencing some high temps as well–at least for the upper mid-west. It’s the humidity that gets to us. You have a very full June coming–take care.
Tessa
I’m so glad you have a place to go with AC. I can’t even imagine not having it in the summer. And I’m not even going to think about the rats and roaches 😳
Books Teacup and Reviews
Yes, living in hometown has its advantages. I happy we are not going to live in that house any more. I can’t wait for y house to get ready, it’s only thing I’m highly anticipating this year.
Lashaan Balasingam @ Roars and Echoes
Living in a place where snow is such a common sight, I always giggle at the thought that some people never actually experienced it hahaha Congrats on your brother for the life achievement and I hope June will turn out to be a cool month of reading. You better find that AC quick, y’all have deadly hot weather!
Books Teacup and Reviews
Summer are worst here. Temperatures are so high that I bet we can survive in Sahara and Senegal. For now we have moved to my mom’s house. My parents have big house that can accommodate us with our belongings and no one is going to rent their house for just two months as we will be moving to our own flat in August end. But I’m happy I no longer have to tolerate rats and roaches.
Teri Polen
Snow – that’s amazing, Yesha! Glad you got a break in the weather and even happier you’re finally getting the new house keys.
nickimags @ Secret Library Book Blog
Wow that sounds like a busy month and the fact that you read 10 books is amazing! Hope you enjoyed the snow and the the move goes really well!
Books Teacup and Reviews
3 of those were short reads but I also didn’t expect to read 7 fulll novels. I think it’s because of twisted series, it was addictive and fast reads. It took me only 2days to finish one book in that series so I could easily finish 3 books in less than two weeks with reviews. It’s one of the reasons I love fast paced and addictive books and series. I hope you had great May and wish you amazing June.