May TBR and Posting Plans

Hi everyone! How are things going? Read anything good lately?

I gotta be honest, I don’t think I’ve read That Book yet this year. You know, the one that you love so much that you just KNOW it’s going to be your favourite book of the year no matter what else you read? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve read some great books in the last 4 months, but most have lacked that special wish-I-could-give-it-a-6th-star magic. So far, my top 5 reads of the year stand as follows:

Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney

(I have a special Top Recommendations of 2025 shelf for these books on my Bookshop.org shop, if you’d like to buy any of them from an online retailer that supports local independent bookstores. As an affiliate, I’ll get a small commission from any purchase made through my shop, if you’d like to help me keep the lights on around here.)

May TBR

Here’s hoping that something from my 16-book May TBR will end up at the top of this list! Or maybe I’ll pick up something random and wonderful that isn’t even on my radar yet, who knows? Anyway, here are the books I’m hoping to read (or complete… looking at you, Berlin Alexanderplatz!) in May:

The Magician’s Daughter: A Memoir by Katy Grabel (eARC)
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (eARC)
Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey (eARC)
The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover by Jan Gradvall (eARC)
My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner (new release)
Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes (new release)
The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (new release)
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
This Cursed House by Del Sandeen
Push by Sapphire
Things Go Flying by Shari Lapena
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
The Meanest Doll in the World by Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, and Brian Selznick

Posting Plans

My life is still kind of up-in-the-air right now, so I’m not ready to commit to a definite posting schedule yet, but I’m hoping that throughout May I can switch to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday routine. I’m hoping to review all those ARCs and new releases I listed above, plus there’s a cool embassy-curated list from Diplomatica of Great Reads from Around the World that I’d like to talk about, I definitely need to talk some more about my Top 100 Canadian Reads project, AND I’d really like to get back into my languages/classics project and pick up where I left off with Ancient Egyptian. That all sounds like way too much work for me right now, but we’ll see what happens!

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for things they’d like to see on this blog, please let me know. I’m still new to this format and learning as I go. I’d like this blog to become a place that readers of all types love to visit!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’re having a great day. Happy reading!