May Reads - 2024

 May Reads:


What a FIVE STAR month of reading which was the plan! After many months of being in a reading slump, the plan was made with my sister to have a chill month reading in May. Lots of great books! Three were new books to me that I really enjoyed and two were tried and true faves. <3

Punching the Air was one that had been on my TBR since September 2020 and I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. It is written in verse and tells the story of an innocent person who was falsely convicted and incarcerated. 

Debating Darcy is a book I picked up while book shopping with my besties in January 2023. And I really loved this retelling of Pride and Prejudice. The new version and the twists on the original characters was excellent. And I loved the modernization of the still incredibly relevant topics from the original.

And now we're going to ignore that it took until the middle of June for me to post my May reads. 😆


Pending Reads:
  • He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
  • David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
  • A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown
  • The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle*
  • [Still Not Officially Pending, but on my priority TBR: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn and The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna]
*(Not Quite) YA Book Club reads

Comments

  1. DeweyJune 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM

    DUDE Punching the Air is such an incredible book. And I forget if we ever talked about this, but Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam made sure that it came out on first publication in paperback, which usually takes a year after release, because there are restrictions on hardcover books in prison libraries.

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    1. Darcy LynJuly 2, 2024 at 6:45 PM

      I do think we've talked about that! It's so fucked up that's limited in the first place, but so awesome that they were mindful of that.

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