Happy June-Eve, y’all!
I hope everyone had a productive, happy, and sun-filled May! Myself? I’ve been alternating between denial and panic all month. With the start of spring — like, real spring — my brain has switched over the YOLO-IT’S-SUMMER mode. The more logical part of me is keenly aware that — (oh, sweet baby Jesus) — I only have 2.5 months left for data collection. And, thanks to a whole host of technical errors, I haven’t yet started. There have been many stressed out conversations with my mom these past few weeks — and many more late nights / weekend spent in lab.
PhD-angst aside, it’s been a pretty good month for reading. I finished Crown of Midnight late last night, and am starting to appreciate why so many people love Throne of Glass … Fox 8 might just be the single most touching book I read this year … and I’m still surprisingly pleased with how Eleanor Oliphant ended.
Fingers crossed for a word-filled June!
My monthly reading goal:
- The oldest book on my TBR – Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
- Any book on my TBR – Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
- The monthly motif: One Sitting Reads – Fox 8 by George Saunders
- An academic book on my TBR – She Has Her Mother’s Laugh by Carl Zimmer
Other books I read in May:
- Years, Months, and Days by Amanda Jernigan ** from the TBR
- Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman
- Celeste by I. N. J. Culbard
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ** from the TBR
- The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell ** from the TBR
- Whose Boat Is This Boat? “by” Donald Trump
- A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
- The Witch Elm by Tana French ** from the TBR
Tags:
- I’m starting to approach the end of the ABC Book Challenge! Check out my P, Q, R, and S books
- Top 10 Tuesdays: Bookish pet peeves; Books I will NEVER read; Fictional crushes; Books that made me cry; and, Fictional BFFs
- But first: Let me take a shelfie
The Geeky Jock 