MAY 2022 WRAP-UP

Another busy month, including one week of vacation in the woods, when I mostly did hiking and birding, and was too (good) tired by night to read a lot.
So I didn’t do much blogging, but am happy with the reading amount and content. One unusual aspect: this month, I read 2 books that are more or less in the horror genre, a genre I usually don’t read.

I’m currently 10 books ahead of schedule (49% done) to read 120 books this year.

I have a few book reviews late, but I hope to catch up soon and join again more blog related activities.

📚 Here is what I read in May:

12 books:
8 in print 
=  with 1,846 pages, a daily average of 49 pages/day
4 in audio
= 32H49, a daily average of 1H03/ day

4 in mystery:

1. Les dieux voyagent toujours incognito, by Laurent Gounelle – French audiobook
2. Under Lock and Skeleton Key, by Gigi Pandian – ebook received for review
3. Le Mystère Henri Pick, by David Foenkinos – French audiobook
4. The Last House on Needless Street, by Catriona Ward – more or less horror, ebook received for review

2 in science-fiction:

1. La Nuit des temps, by René Barjavel – read with a French student,
   counts for The Classics Club
2. At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft – more or less horror,
   counts for The Classics Club

2 in children/YA:

1. Stuart Little, by E. B. White – counts for The Classics Club
2. Le Pays où l’on n’arrive jamais, by André Dhôtel – a reread,
   counts for The Classics Club

2 in nonfiction:

1. L’Axe du loup : de la Sibérie à l’Inde, sur les pas des évadés du goulag, by Sylvain Tesson – French audiobook
2. This Holy Man: Impressions of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, by Gillian Crow – Orthodox biography

1 in literary fiction:

1. Le Voyage d’Octavio, by Miguel Bonnefoy

1 in play:

1. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry – counts for The Classics Club

It’s so hard to pick 2 favorites, I loved so many this month!

MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH

 

La Nuit des temps has been translated into English as The Ice People.

READING CHALLENGES & RECAP

Classics Club: 120/137 (from November 2020-until November 2025)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 9/12 books – During the year: 10
2022 TBR Pile Reading Challenge: 3/12 books
2022 books in translation reading challenge: 16/10+

Total of books read in 2022 = 59/120 (49%)
Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 15

 NO OTHER BOOK  REVIEWED THIS PAST MONTH

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Come back tomorrow to see the titles I’ll be reading in June

How was YOUR month of May?

Nicole at Feed Your Fiction Addiction
has created a Month In Review meme
where you can link your monthly recap posts
Thanks Nicole!