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May Wrap-Up

It was quite a month for reading, especially comfort reading, as you'll see by my list. I'd been meaning to get to the Grishaverse for a while, but it was on the backburner until it came out on Netflix. After I parceled out the TV show, which I definitely enjoyed, I binged all five of the books the series is/will be based on. The creators of the show made an interesting choice to combine the casts and overlap the plots of Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows, which are separate in the books. It will be interesting to see where that goes. The first trilogy is a much more traditional good hero versus evil villain epic fantasy with some Russian-esque words thrown in for flavor (don't get me wrong, this is the epitome of a comfort read for me!), while the Crows duology is grittier, picaresque heroes coming up in the big bad city. Bardugo is great at characterization, especially biting dialogue, and plays well with the implications of the magical Grisha powers in the universe she's created. After I flew through those, I was pleasantly surprised by a couple of stalwart and insightful book club reads, for two different respective book clubs, then I discovered that Spotify has audiobooks, including the Raven Cycle, so I flew through those again, and then finished up with a nonfiction read I'd been struggling to get through for a couple of months. So, all in all, very successful reading month. 

 Books Read This Month



  1. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
  2. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
  3. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
  4. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
  5. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
  6. The Guest Book by Sarah Blake (book club read; enjoyed more than I expected)
  7. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (other book club read; also enjoyed more than expected)
  8. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (reread)
  9. The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (reread)
  10. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (reread)
  11. The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (reread)
  12. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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