May has been a big month. Firstly, I participated in a 24-hour read-a-thon at the end of April, which put my very behind in my reviewing. I think I went into May with eleven reviews I still needed to write; I know the 24-hour read-a-thon was not the sole reason to be so far behind. I get on a roll with my reading and it is much more fun reading than writing reviews. Also in this month I wrote my book blogging manifesto, which resulted in big changes for myself. I have since started writing every day and this has caused an increase in blog posts. Finally there was Armchair BEA, which I participated in for the third year. All in all, a great month for blogging.
Looking at the Literary Exploration book club, we tackled children’s literature and read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic The Secret Garden. I loved this book, not because it was children’s literature but what it did with the Gothic, the psychological and The Romantic. I’m glad we finally took on children’s literature and look forward to when I do it again. As a reminder next month we are moving onto young adult literature and reading Divergent by Veronica Roth and I’m not looking forward to it but will be reading.
This month has not only been a good month for blogging but also a decent month for reading. I completed 12 books this month and highlights include, not only The Secret Garden but also Young Romantics by Daisy Hay, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P by Adelle Waldman and The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh. However, the book that stuck with me the most was How To Talk To A Widower by Jonathan Tropper, however my review won’t be out for another few days.
Monthly Reading
- Young Romantics by Daisy Hay
- The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P by Adelle Waldman
- Season to Taste by Natalie Young
- Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
- Sex Criminals Volume #1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction
- Literary Theory by Jonathan Culler
- How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
- The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh
- Foreign Soul by Maxine Beneda Clarke
- The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Monthly Posts
- The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham
- How do you pick an imprint for classics?
- The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
- Top Ten Tuesday: Great Covers
- Ransom by David Malouf
- The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
- My Bookish Manifesto
- So this happened
- Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh
- The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Fever by Megan Abbott
- Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
- My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books on Friendship
- Young Romantics by Daisy Hay
- Season to Taste by Natalie Young
- The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P by Adelle Waldman
- Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
- My Next Reading Project – Middlemarch
- ArmchairBEA 2014: Introduction and Literature
- Ten Books I Read to be more Pretentious
- ArmchairBEA 2014: Author Interaction & More Than Just Words
- ArmchairBEA 2014: Expanding Blogging Horizons & Novellas/Short Stories
- ArmchairBEA 2014: Giveaways & Beyond the Borders
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- ArmchairBEA 2014: Topic of Choice & Middle Grade/Young Adult
- Monthly Review – May 2014
- ArmchairBEA 2014: Wrap Up
Very very productive and awesome month! Look at that list of posts 🙂 Your books this month also are pretty eclectic, how ever are you going to top May 2014? Actually, I am sure you can haha
I try to be eclectic in my reading every month.