I’ve updated my May reads to the 2010 Books Read List and am now looking forward to June’s reads. I’m especially keen on starting into some classic reads when school gets out. Yup, at the end of June, classes for little ones finish and I get thinking about summer reading lists.
What I liked about May’s reading:
* Squeezing in a Virago and a Persephone (actually 5, In Wartime), a literary biography, a magazine, a short story AND keeping up the poetry habit inspired by National Poetry Month in April: I like feeling like I’ve sampled everything on the platter and these categories keep my reading diet varied.
* Sustaining the Monday and Thursday installments of Reading in Print, continuing the Saturday habit of kidlit/YA, and starting into Bookish reads for Fridays which will last through July.
* Finishing 2 challenges, reading towards 7 others, starting 2 new ones, and only ignoring 4.
(Hmmm, somehow that seemed more positive when it was just a thought in my head.)
What I liked less about May’s reading:
* I should have set some other reading challenges aside so that I could focus more on the Orange Prize Mondays and Thursdays. If my reading stress level had been tinted, it’d’ve been neon, whereas I’d rather it’d’ve been tangerine.
Library usage: low-to-moderate, currently only 11 borrowed books stacked near the bed (yes, that’s moderate).
Book-buying: medium-to-heavy. (Well you had to know that the library was getting a break for a reason.)
Favourite spam comment for May that I was really close to approving just cuz I liked it: Do you like turtles?
How about you? How was your Reading May?
Thanks for the bookish comments!
I agree, Jenny: the trick with challenges is aligning them with your pre-existing reading plans, or, at least, your intentions, as you’ve done with short stories. I’ve been tossing around the idea of reading nothing but short stories for 2011, but I’m not sure I could do it. I should though…if only to restore the balance because I’m sure I’ve read waaaaaay more novels overall.
Wouldn’t that be awful, Wanda? If my Turtle-spammer took my mention as a mark of interest and released my data to a hoard of like-minded spammers? But so far my only regret in sharing my favourite for May is that no other month’s comment will come up to the Turtle Mark.
Thanks, Olduvai: you had a great May as well, and your graphic novel list had me browsing the shelves at the library last night.
Now that is a great reading month!
A literary taste tester hunh? Well you know what they say, “variety is the spice of life.” 🙂
Tee hee, love that you included your favourite spam comment. Hope it doesn’t encourage more though!
Blimey, that’s a lot of challenges you’ve got! I was a bit cowardly and mostly restricted mine to the kinds of thing that I’ll probably read anyway (with the exception that I really wanted to push myself to read more short story collections).
My May was pretty good book-wise, although I didn’t really know about Persephone Reading Week until a little late! Now that I’m clued-in to the Persephone catalogue, though, I’m really pleased that I found out about it: I’m having my very own belated Persephone reading week, by currently reading Manja, which is excellent.
No interesting spam at my end, though. It’s just all really… long, actually. Why can’t my spammers be concise?