books i am planning on reading in may: a tbr

Well, well, well.

I haven’t done one of these TBR posts for a while, but I was feeling festive.

How is everyone going? I hope you are all doing well, staying inside and trying to stay sane.

I thought I would do a quick little may tbr since I have some spare time to write a post. I don’t know about you, but I have read more in the last month than any month of this year. I shouldn’t have…I do have work to do haha.

So this month I am planning on reading a few books. I am not always the best at comitting to a tbr but I’m pretty excited to read most of these, so here’s hoping to staying on course!

I’ll start with blog tour books I need to read.

This month I have three blog tours that I am participating in (from the day that I am currently writing this). The first blog tour is for The Wrongful Death by Kenneth B. Anderson which is the third in the Great Devil War series that I have also read and reviewed in previous blog tours (1 and 2) and thoroughly enjoyed. I am looking forward to seeing what happens the characters in this book and seeing how the story and characters develop.

UPDATE 4th of MAY: Full review here.

The next blog tour I have is for The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks which is a middle grade book that I have just started reading as of when I am writing this. From the first few pages, it’s okay – I am finding that I want the story to move forward slightly more quickly but I am hoping that it will pick up soon.

UPDATE 4th of MAY: I freaking love it. You can read the review here.

The last blog tour for this month is for Elizabeth Hazen’s Girls Like Us which is a poetry collection. I have already read this in April (because I wanted to read it for bookclub) and I didn’t fall in love with it, but poetry is a completely subjective experience so if I didn’t connect with it, doesn’t mean that other’s won’t. I found the writing to be beautiful though, but not enough to emotionally connect me with any of the poems, which I am incredibly sad to say.

In terms of arcs that I want to read – the number one arc I want to get around reading this month is called The Things We Hide at Home by Nem Rowan. This has been out since January but I just have not been able to get around to it because of uni and procrastination. I am quite excited to read this one – I don’t know too much about it other than the fact that it is thriller-esque? I just want to read it because it sounds incredibly interesting but also because of extreme guilt that it has taken me so long to get to it!

I have just noticed that I may have bitten off more than I can chew (is that the correct saying?!).

We shall see if I can finish all these books on my tbr. Anway, the next book I want to read is Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. This is because I low key am hoping to do asian readathon (as well as a reading challenge I set myself) but also because I have seen this book everywhere on book twitter and booktube, and I want to see what it’s about! I don’t actually know much about it. It’s about two families, right? A single mum stays at a white family’s house, or something? I don’t really want to know too much about it before I delve into it, though so don’t attack me haha.

I then really want to read Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu, books one and two. I have been following this web comic for actual years – I think I started reading it online the year it came out, because it absolutely took the tumblr world by storm.

I just love these characters, the world, the writing and story as well as the illustrations. So, last month I finally splurged on the physical copies of each book and I am hoping they come in the post this month! If it doesn’t, I will cry.

The next book I want to read is also on the list of the reading challenge I have set myself. It is called A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor. I actually know nothing about this book. Only that it is considered one of the top 25 best books written by women. Which is the basis of the reading challenge that I set myself for the rest of the year. Let me know if you have read it!

As a part of my classicathon tbr, I want to read (hopefully) Anges Grey by Anne Bronte. I have always wanted to read another Anne Bronte book, so this will herald as my second Anne Bronte book (though I do want to re-read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall). Again, don’t know much but I am ready to be amazed.

UPDATE 4th of MAY: I read this as an audiobook and really enjoyed it! I gave it 3.5 stars. Anne Bronte is a beautiful writer and it made me want to reread The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which I might do next month…

We have made it to the last book I want to read for the month of May. I think. I hope.

It is A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. It’s not really a book…more like a play in a collection of Oscar Wilde Plays that I have. But I read The Importance of Being Earnest in April and absolutely adored it, so I think I want to try and read at least one Oscar Wilde play a month. I just adore Wilde’s writing and I enjoy his wit, intelligence and humour.

UPDATE 4th of MAY: I FREAKING ADORED THIS PLAY HOLY SHIT I LOVED IT.