Challenge Update, May 2021

Some of these reading goals are looking further and further away. I’ve slowed down more than I thought I would and with a baby coming, I’m not expecting it to get much better. You can look at my progress at any time on my challenge page.

Books finished in May:

Recursion by Blake Crouch
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Only one review behind and it should be up next week! I’m happy with that progress, if I’m being honest. I wish I was doing better on finishing books. This is much slower than normal for me.

When Are You Reading? Challenge

7/12
One more this month with Lady’s Guide fulfilling the 1700-1799 time period. This may be the only challenge I finish and that’s fine. I have time to start targeting my books a bit more as my book clubs drop off in the summer and with the baby.

Goodreads Challenge

15/45
And now I’m three books behind and still not feeling good about catching up on this one. I guess I need some shorter books to make it happen. Though that feels like cheating. Is it cheating? I’m going to try to stick to ones on my TBR but I might have to deviate a bit to catch up on this. I’d love to not be too far behind when Baby arrives.

Book of the Month

Even with a long stop in the middle of it, it’s easy to say that The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee was my book of the month. It was a fun story and though it wasn’t as good as the first in the series, it was still really fun. I’ll probably finish the trilogy eventually but I’m not in any rush.

Added to my TBR

I’m still at 41 but I think it’s a good place to be. I’d like to get to 40 so it fits on two pages, but I’ll live. Only one new book this month!

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I loved The Martian and was OK with Artemis. I’ll give Weir another shot and see how this one goes.

How are your challenges going? I hope your year is starting off well. If you’re interested in the When Are You Reading? Challenge for 2021, I’m hosting again so you can click here to learn more and let me know if you want in.

Until next time, write on.

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