Thank you to everyone who entered my 3rd blogoversary giveaway - the winner was Alicia!
The weather this month was unusually rainy, particularly at the beginning and then again at the end of the month. It led to a lot of relaxing and reading inside! We did have a few nice days, and we took advantage of that to start doing some stuff outside to get ready for summer - getting flowers for our planters and putting out the patio furniture. I got an early start to the Memorial Day weekend when we lost power in our office and were sent home early, and the good luck continued into Monday when we had great weather for our barbecue!
I mentioned last month that our niece was born, and this month we welcomed yet another new little niece to the family! So many kids to keep track of! I've been wanting to do a travel wall of some of our vacation photos for years, but we didn't have room for it at our condo. Finally, a year and a half after we moved into our house, I started this project! I can't wait to add to it and keep ticking off states on our scratch map. Also this month, we had a little get-together for family and friends to make blankets for Project Linus. We were able to collect, make, and label 43 blankets for our local chapter!
Starting in June, Austine at NovelKnight and Aly at Of Wonderland are hosting a readalong of all the Game of Thrones books, dubbed #IronThroneReadalong! I've been wanting to reread the books, but they are such a commitment! The readalong breaks down the books into manageable weekly chunks, and I think that's a great way to go. I'm planning on joining in - how about you?
The Books
The Accidental Beauty Queen (audio) // The Paris Wife // Cravings: Hungry for More // As Old As Time
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake // The Secretary (audio) // Signs Point to Yes // Fatal Throne
Thanks to Jennifer ~ Tar Heel Reader for the rec of The Secretary!
Part of Your World // Even If The Sky Falls // Daisy Jones & The Six // The Inbetween Days (review to come)
The Game Can't Love You Back // A Palm Beach Wife (review to come)
The Posts and Reviews
Retellings Mini-Reviews
Bookworm Problems: The Library Edition
Top Ten Tuesday: Characters That Remind Me of Myself
Can't-Wait Wednesday: Passion on Park Avenue
Review: The Girl He Used to Know
Quotables #13
Can't-Wait Wednesday: Recursion
Review: When You Read This
Down The TBR Hole #2
Can't-Wait Wednesday: Time After Time
Try It, You Might Like It #9: Cookbooks
Top Ten Tuesday: A Decade of Favorites
Can't-Wait Wednesday: One Night at the Lake
Bookworm Problems: The Library Edition
Top Ten Tuesday: Characters That Remind Me of Myself
Can't-Wait Wednesday: Passion on Park Avenue
Review: The Girl He Used to Know
Quotables #13
Can't-Wait Wednesday: Recursion
Review: When You Read This
Down The TBR Hole #2
Can't-Wait Wednesday: Time After Time
Try It, You Might Like It #9: Cookbooks
Top Ten Tuesday: A Decade of Favorites
Can't-Wait Wednesday: One Night at the Lake
The Posts I Loved
This month I decided to highlight some book reviews I enjoyed!
How was your May? Any summer plans coming up?
This month I decided to highlight some book reviews I enjoyed!
Di at Book Reviews by Di reviews Romanov
Katie at Doing Dewey reviews Park Avenue Summer
Greg at Book Haven reviews The Blue
Amy at A Magical World of Words reviews Bright Burning Stars
Verushka at POP.EDIT.LIT reviews For Better and Worse
Katie at Doing Dewey reviews Park Avenue Summer
Greg at Book Haven reviews The Blue
Amy at A Magical World of Words reviews Bright Burning Stars
Verushka at POP.EDIT.LIT reviews For Better and Worse
How was your May? Any summer plans coming up?
Glad you had a nice Memorial Day weekend! Aww yay a new niece :-) The travel wall sounds awesome, you should show us a photo when it's set up!
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DeleteSounds you had a lovely month! Congrats on the new niece, and that travel wall sounds like such a great idea.
ReplyDeleteHope your June is just as relaxing as May :)
Thanks, Amy! I really like the way the travel wall came out.
DeleteWow! You had an awesome month. Congrats on the new niece. :) I look forward to your thoughts on A Palm Beach Wife. That one looks like such a fun beach read!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Christina!
DeleteThat’s awesome that you got sent home early before a long weekend. I should probably continue with the GoT books. I’ve only made it through the first 3 so far. Happy June!
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
I know, that was a pleasant surprise! Thanks, Aj!
DeleteSo many wonderful books up there. I hope you are ready for summer reading. I haven’t read any of the Game of Thrones books, I should try them, but I am getting ready for summer and all the craziness, no commitments because then I will feel guilty if I can’t keep them. Yeah for new nieces. I got a new nephew back in November and I am finally going to get to meet him at the end of June. Yeah!
ReplyDeleteAww, that will be nice when you meet him! I think we will meet both of our nieces this month.
DeleteGlad you had such a good Memorial Day weekend. Congrats on the new addition to your family. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Suzanne!
DeleteIt looks like a wonderful month of reading, Angela! Congrats on your new niece!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jennifer!
DeleteWow! You read a lot of books in May and a couple are favorites of mine. On surprise that one is Daisy Jones, but another favorite is The Paris Wife. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Congrats on the two new nieces. Babies are the best!
ReplyDeleteBabies are so sweet! I was surprised by Daisy Jones, too - I've mostly loved all of her books, but I was a little worried about the time period on this one.
DeleteThat Iron Throne Readalong sounds like a lot of fun! Maybe by the time you guys get through the books he'll announce the winds of Winter! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the blankets- that's pretty neat. And your travel wall sounds awesome!
Ha, wouldn't that be nice!
DeleteYes all the rain but it's been nice lately. Awesome with Project Linus! Looks like a great reading month! Hope June is great!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Grace!
DeleteA wonderful month - congratulations on another new niece! The rainy weather must have been good for something... it looks like a banner reading month as well. Happy June!
ReplyDeleteI know, I'm surprised I read this much!
DeleteThanks, JoAnn!
More babies - congratulations! Good luck with that read-a-thon, and I cannot believe you are reading those tomes for a second time. Wow!
ReplyDeleteHaha, for some of them it's more like the 3rd or 4th time!
DeleteCongrats on the new addition to the family! We just found out yesterday that my sister-in-law is having a little girl! <3
ReplyDeleteAww, congrats, how fun!
DeleteCongratulations on the new niece! How wonderful! I hope she and mom are happy, healthy and wonderful! We also put out all of our stuff around then. It was nice. We had to get ready for my daughters graduation and all that, that entailed. It seemed like that never got done. It was weeks in the making!
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We are still doing stuff to get our outdoors ready! We really need to get going on it.
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