Book Snails Book Group discussion

Got awesome reading plans for the month of MAY?
Discovering any wacky, terrible, or inspiring tomes?

Let us know how your reading month is going :)

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Books Already Finished:
1. The First Four Years
2. On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
3. West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 - I'm officially ready to dive into Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography now!
4. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space - Started in April. What a struggle! Interesting info, but written like a research paper, not a story. I would really like to see the movie though.
5. When All The Girls Have Gone - Just meh. Storyline could have been good, but the writing was awful.
6. The Bird Tribunal - Picked up this "Nordic Noir" book for my Snakes & Ladders challenge (uncommon genre). For those who liked the "twists" (and suspense?) of The Kind Worth Killing, this one did it better. The ending shocked me. I was almost certain I knew what was going to happen, and I was wrong.
7. My Secret Guide to Paris - Read this because I thought it might make a good Christmas gift for my 11 year old niece. I will definitely be buying it for her.

Currently Reading:
1. Strangers on a Train
2. Conviction (for Book Club)
3. A Man Called Ove
4. Life After Life - Probably won't finish this though. It's for Book Club, but I'm getting very annoyed with it because there doesn't seem to be a plot. Girl dies. She's reborn. Girl dies. She's reborn. Repeat again and again and again. What is the point?!?

Up Next
1. Before I Fall
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
3. Eye Contact
4. Prime-Time Pitcher - Potential Christmas gift for my 9 year old nephew.

WOW, Erin! Hope your eyes aren't hurting from all that reading :)

I've finished The Kind Worth Killing and Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II already.

I'm looking to read The Swans of Fifth Avenue next, which, for the past few months, I've been saying I'll read. After that, I'm really not sure.

Velva Jean Learns to Fly is on my list to read, and my mom recently picked up Benedict Hall for me, thinking I would like it. Hopefully I do!

We'll see what I feel like reading after Swans, but I'm hoping to finish that and one more book for May.

4 of the 7 were really short and quick :-P
And I was mostly done with Hidden Figures when the month began...

Wow! Great job with all that reading! :-)

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get as much reading done as I hoped this month. So far, the only book I’ve finished is The Marsh King's Daughter (which was quite good). I’m currently still reading The Handmaid's Tale (trying out audio book version) and also MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II (which is good so far – nonfiction book that reads like fiction). Hope to get both of these done in the next couple days.

Next book I’ll be starting (probably next week) is The Good Earth, which is a BOTM for one of my other book clubs. After that I’ve got a pretty long list of books lined up for end of May, which will likely go into June (depending on the amount of time I end up having to read). On the list so far are -- Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung (a memoir that I had been planning to read back in February/March but never got around to it), On Edge (nonfiction / memoir on anxiety), and The Glorious Heresies (ARC I received).

Haha….I just noticed that this month is primarily non-fiction and classics (definitely wasn’t by design), with 1, maybe 2 contemporary fictions thrown in there. Still trying to sort out June but that month will probably go back to being more fiction-heavy….

It's so much easier to just post this link! Ha!

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This month, I'm focusing on Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Jeff Corwin's 100 Heartbeats: A Journey to Meet Our Planet's Endangered Animals and the Heroes Working to Save Them, and Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train.

For the month of May 2017, I'm reading books in my favorite genre only: SF (Science Fiction)

Finished this month:

2 "normal" Adult SF titles: Shipstar, Children of Time
1 Star Trek book: Missing in Action
1 SF short story collection: The Best of Frederik Pohl
2 YA SF books: Dualed, Frost

All 2 or 3-star reads for me; nothing awful, but nothing great either.

► Have you ever considered reading only one genre, or one author, for an entire month or so? If you've done it, how did it turn out?

Finished: The Kind Worth Killing
Currently Reading: The Swans of Fifth Avenue and Gone with the Wind

I wanted to read one more book, but unfortunately, I don't think that will happen. There's only a week left in May, and I'm just past the halfway point in Swans. I didn't realize how long it was!

To answer StarMan's question, I haven't ever intentionally only read one genre or one author for an entire month, but I'm almost certain that I've done it before. Historical non/fiction are my favorite genres, and the books I tend to read most, so I can guarantee there have been many many months in my life where I've only read historical books! I never plan to do it, though. Whatever I feel like reading next, I'll read, regardless of what it is :)