Time for some vacation reading! || MAY TBR 

Reading together should totally be something that people do together, I wish it was more common. That is actually something that I and my parents do frequently when I visit and we're all very happy with that. 🐺

Sounds like a fun TBR! I hope you get some time to read, Angela!!

Friggin' Edgedancer lolol I am the same with reading things for long periods. I just don't do that with books and when something takes multiple weeks to get through it inevitably hurts my overall enjoyment.

I hope Just for the Summer delivers for you like it did for me. It was a definite mood booster. 😊

Bloodchild is fantastic and a great book club pick. I’ll be finishing up the Dandelion Dynasty this month🐺

I understand what you're saying about Gardens of The Moon, I had that at first as well. But I must say that allowing myself to only read Malazan when I'm in the mood and am not tired has helped me to progress at a decent pace throughout the series without being burned out on either reading or the series itself. As for the rest of your reading plans. They sound amazing and interesting, so too bad if GotM does not work out. you'll have a lot of great reading I think!

Pausing books is kinda my bread and butter because I'm such a mood reader 😂 But it's also usually a good indicator that I'm not enjoying something all that much (looking at you Ship of Magic, The Memory of Souls and Crooked Kingdom 👀) Reading wise, since we're _finally_ fully into spring here in Norway, and everything is getting green again, in May I'm hoping to pick up the next book in Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters series, being the master of foresty vibes as she is. And I also have been wanting to try out L.M. Mongomery's other series - Emily of New Moon 🤔 I hope you'll have a lovely reading month! ☺

I hope you have an incredible May reading month! Both my birthday and our daughter's birthday are in May and my husband has 2 weeks off, so I'm hoping between all those exciting things to do a couple re-reads - The Fifth Season and Circe - and continuing in some of my favorite series as a birthday present to myself: the next Liveship Traders book, Words of Radiance, and The First Binding. 😊 ALL the good things packed into a month!

🐺🐺🐺Have fun with your TBR! And I loved Just for the Summer so I hope you get it soon.

I think my plan for May is either continuing Terra Ignota or the Dandelion Dynasty and just fitting easier books around them. I am excited for your thoughts on all of these books but especially Seven Surrenders.

I’ve picked up “SHARDS OF HONOR” by Louis McMaster Bujold - it’s my first read of the Vorkosigan Saga, inspired by you! I’m also listening to “THE SCOURGE BETWEEN STARS” by Ness Brown-more technically I’m immersion reading with the physical book + audiobook. It’s a novella from Tor 😊

🐺🐺🐺 I am participating in the Asian Readathon this year, so my TBR will be focused on that.

I'm a super mood-reader, so all plans are subject to change, but I hope to get to "The Liar's Knot" by M.A. Carrick in May - I loved the first book in this trilogy and can feel the urge to pick up the next book hitting me. :D

I’m reading AAPI for May along with Cindy! Trying to read a bunch of TBR books I own either physically or on kindle.

I'm trying to balance out my outdoor chores and reading time, along with my responsibilities, this month but it hasn't been too challenging. I'll have less reading time in June, for sure, but sometimes I read to ignore my stress so that might happen too 😄 I started Paladin's Grace last night but I don't know. It didn't really catch my interest from the start so I put that aside. Did you read it? What did you think? Enjoy your time off with family! Sounds so nice to be reading in a quiet space with others :) (hmmm, I probably need to visit my library soon)

Ooh I also have The Wolf on my May tbr as my Wheel of Unread books picked it for me. I totally get what you mean with the stop starting with a book, Ive been very slumpy this month because I was busy and thus stop starting most reads, that just really put me off them.

I'm anxiously waiting for the new Abby Jimenez book to come in at the library also. I am so tempted to just buy it because I'm certain I'm going to love it, but budgets.

Omg yes Just for the Summer is Abby Jimenez at her very best, I really hope you can get around to it!! And hope that Ada Palmer continues to blow you away, it sounds like such a cool series! Happy reading and enjoy the vacation 🥰

I read Bloodchild in the fall and loved it, especially the story Amnesty. I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

I'm crossing my fingers for your hold of Just for the Summer to come through. It's so good!!!

Just for summer keeps trying to tempt me to buy it too but so far I’ve resisted

I feel like pausing or stop/starting a book ultimately impacts my impression of the book. That I can't accurately judge it's pacing or emotional impact because of the pause

May is pride month in my country, so i'm gonna try to get a bunch of queer books on the tbr, but first i'll have to finish the many books i'm currently in the middle of, so we'll see how many i'll be able to get to

I'd say that by far the best "break point" in Vorkosigan is after Memory. If you don't want to wait that long, after Brothers in Arms would probably also be good. As an aside, I agree with the person who said you're reaching the point where it goes from good to great

I loved Gardens of the Moon, but I had to reread it 3 times before I felt like I absorbed everything lol. So many intricacies in that book. Definitely not suitable for stutter stops

yeah really extended reading doesn't work for me either. i pretty much only try and keep that for nonfiction -- especially ones that are dense or episodic -- but even still, "too long" just looking at them makes me not want to keep going

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