May in Books

Guys, it's the end of May. In approximately one month (1st July) I will have been in London for a whole year. JEEZ LOUISE. I'm definitely not planning a massive party to celebrate (totally am). Anyway, enough of future times, I'm here to talk about my May reading.

May has been a funny month. I've been super busy on the one hand, but then I've had more reading time than usual because I've actually let myself relax. A few things have suffered because of it, but I was about reaching crazy point so I think it was for the best. 

The Goals...

Knock a book or two off my kindle to read pile

Keep up with the non-fiction reading

Start re-reading The Diary of Anne Frank (it only seems right if I'm going to Amsterdam)

With all that extra reading time I've done semi-ok with the goals I set for myself at the end of April. I've crossed off the non-fiction goal even though I haven't technically kept up with it. I started reading Faulks on Fiction but have been distracted by all the other goodies. I can tell it's going to be a winner so I'll be cracking on with that again. Only one book I read was from my Kindle tbr (The Goldfinch) but three other reads were from my physical tbr so it's swings and roundabouts really.

The Books...

28. Bhalla Strand by Sarah Maine
29. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
30. Stoner by John Williams
31. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary and Bryan Talbot and Kate Charlesworth
32. Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
33. Battle Hymns by Cara Langston
34. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

I'm so pleased with my reading this month. I have been completely blown away by the quality of books I've been reading - Stoner and Sally Heathcote stick out - including two really brilliant debuts. Aside from my disappointment with The Goldfinch, which I still can't really call a disappointment, I have basically wanted to eat up every book on this list. I'd also just like to draw your attention to the variety here: we have a book from my Spring Reading list, a Classics Club choice, a graphic novel and a book from my War Novels project. You can't see but I'm doing a victory jig right now.

Book of the month: this honour goes to Stoner by John Williams. Congrats John!

I had a look at my 2014 in Books page today and realised that I've consistently read 7 books a month since about March. I know that's only really three months but, surely, two is a coincidence and three is a pattern? No? WOW. If that's all I have to talk about then someone please get me a life.

How was your May? Read any good books?

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