Month in Review - May 2010

This week, I've hopped from book to book - sampling a few pages here and there and then abandoning them all because it was too slow or too boring or too dry or too character-oriented or too-plot-oriented or... You get the drift. Life We had another one of those sick-kids-and-Covid-tests week. My daughter came home from school one day with a runny nose that quickly became chills and tiredness. She had no issues with smell or taste, nevertheless we took her for a test as neither she nor my son would be able to get back to school without a negative test. Thankfully, the test results came negative. This time around, we were all ready for what needed to be done, unlike the first time a month ago. Other than that, my week has been very quiet. My parents and my father-in-law got their first shots of the Covid vaccine in India, so we are finally trying to confirm my parents' travel plans to the US - a year later than originally planned. It's quite exciting to realize we will soon

Month in Review - May 2010

What an amazing month! Halfway through, I read 8 books. I really whooped in delight, since that meant I would be able to read more than my usual target. Of course, Murphy was looking at me from above and decided I shouldn't have a smooth ride after all. Soon after, I fell into a stickly rut, picked up book after book as an intense rescue mission, and at one point, had 6 books going. Yes. 6! So I didn't have such a great latter half in reading, but I had loads of fun with my blogging friends. Thanks to BEA! Who thought that being left behind by the BEA-goers could still be such a good thing? The Armchair BEA kept me and my Google reader really busy. I found so many wonderful blogs and am now trying to fit most of them into my daily schedule. {sigh}. So, here's what I read.

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (3 cocktails)
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman (5 cocktails : WOW!)
The Lumby Lines by Gail Fraser (4 cocktails)
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi (5 cocktails)
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman (4 cocktails)
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (3 cocktails)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (5 cocktails)
The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara (3 cocktails)
Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart (4 cocktails)

Discussion

Challenge Progress

Challenges completed: 0/12

100+ Reading Challenge: 43/100
Awesome Author Challenge: 1/10
Support your Local Library Challenge: 25/50
Flashback Reading Challenge: 5/9
451 Challenge: 1/7
Women Unbound Challenge: 3/5
A to Z Challenge: 35/52
Original TBR Challenge: 4/12
Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge: 3/10
POC Challenge: 5/10
World Party Reading Challenge: 0/12
Orange Prize Project: 0

May Stats
Number of books: 9
Number of pages read: 2259
Number of Audio Books: 0
Hours listened to (completed audio books only): 0

Re-reads: 0
New-to-me authors: 8
Male authors: 3
Female authors: 6

Book cleared from my physical shelf: 2
Books added to my physical shelf: 8

Number of books added anew to my TBR this month: 153 {sigh, this is never going to reduce}