The June and May-ea Culpa TBR Challenge Update

Hellooo!

Ok as you may have guessed from a lack of May updates, newsletters and being around online I am rather busy at the moment. I’ve ot just enough time to read and review and I completely forgot the monthly update last month. But while I’m fairly sure this situation will not change over the next few months I can see bright spots ahead. Holidays in August, Edge-Lit in July and a pile (or more) of lovely books to get through.

June though I once disliked I though winter was the time for readers but I like now getting some light after work and as we approach the half year a good time to take stock; what is going well, what is not and what else do you want to do for the next half of the year.

The TBR Update - April and May.

So I’ve read 87 books by the end of last month (prev 52) That breaks down to 25 TBR, and 62 ARCS. My plan is to finish the 7 books i have left for Subject Chaos by the July and then that gives me a lot of TBR time back. We shall see

The two TBR Challenges

Clearly I was bedazzled by coronation crazes and forgot the May Challenge - happily the challenges are designed by the end of ther year not month!

5 - the UK has a lot of bank holidays including a coronation this month so suitably let’s pick a book about revolution or a change of those in power. Just a suggestion nothing meant at all as political commentary I am sure.

For this I choose War For The Oaks by Emma Bull for battles of Seelie and Unseelie Courts in Minneapolis.

The stretch goal was

Stretch Goal - A tale with a member of a royal household in a leading role needs to be completed.

For This I pick To Ride Hell’s Chasm by Janny Wurts

Now onto June’s!

6. - Irrespective of your hemisphere you have time for reading either in the joys of summer or depths of winter. Your challenge here is to find the largest tale on Mount TBR and finish it. Let that monster get off your back

At a hefty 780 pages I’m choosing Echoes edited by Ellen datlow for an anthology of ghost stories

and the stretch goal

Stretch Goal - find the shortest novel in your pile and finish that off too

At 150 pages its a longstanding member of Mount TBR Plague by Jean Ure

So what about you? Tell me here or in the twitters?