Read in May

So, May is now officially almost gone. I have, all in all, had a pretty good reading month! I did finish a bunch of books that were leftovers from previous months, I did read a lot and even (semi)marathoned some books. So, while I didn't manage to finish all books I set out to finish, I am still happy with my effort.

# of books read: 4

-  A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 
- Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
-  Conventionally Yours (True Colors #1) by Annabeth Albert [ARC]

Best book of the month: I think I'm going to have to surprise myself here - I've always expected A Little Life to be, like, *the* best book I've ever read and while I definitely did like it, I think I'm going to have to go with Conventionally Yours instead. The latter book was fun, cute and light and essentially what I was in the mood for right then! I had so much fun with it, too.

Worst book of the month: Tales of the Madman Underground because of its misogyny, racism, homophobia and fatphobia that added literally nothing at all to the story. Also, I really disliked the main character.

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REVIEW: Conventionally Yours [ARC]

TITLE: Conventionally Yours
AUTHOR: Annabeth Albert
RELEASE DATE: June 2nd 2020

RATING: 5/5

REP: gay MCs, Jewish MC, neurodiverse MC, side lesbian characters, side gay characters, side non-binary character

TWs: homophobia (mentions of, nothing too explicit).

Genre: contemporary NA romance

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E-ARC kindly provided by the publisher.

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As we approached Indianapolis, Conrad became more excited, like a little kid on a field trip. It was sort of...cute. And I didn't find much cute, so that was truly saying something. I wasn't sure what to do with this new desire to make him happy, which had led me to agreeing to this side stop, setting aside my already-strained schedule.  

TBR in May

So, a couple of changes for May. 50% of this challenge will be books from my classics/big books challenge that I picked up other months and didn't finish or didn't even started. So naturally, this means I won't be doing a new book for that challenge this month. Which is fine by me, of course! I think I have to see that challenge in particular as something I should attempt rather than as something I should definitely complete. Other than that, I've decided to include some books from my older TBRs that I never got around to as well as an ARC and a book I borrowed from my mom. Click through to see what books I chose!

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