Devour Your TBR discussion

UPDATE: I'm now going to be grouping the "general info" and TBR thread into one single thread to simplify things ♥



Moody May is all about mood reading! You can create a TBR and post it here, or you can just post progress updates as you work through your May reads.

Every time you finish a book, you can post a new comment with an update (star rating, quick thoughts, or just that you've completed it), or you can go back and edit your original TBR comment!

If you have any questions, check our general FAQ topic and see if it's been answered already. If not, ask away!

Happy reading, friends!

Sounds like a good plan, Destiny!

Of course I’m never going to finish all of these….:

May TBR
Nachtlicht (Cold Skin) —> FINISHED
The Lake of Darkness —> FINISHED
Six of Crows —> FINISHED
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue —> FINISHED
De acht bergen (The Eight Mountains)—> FINISHED
Emma wil leven: Een waargebeurd verhaal over de strijd tegen anorexia —> FINISHED
We —> FINISHED
Seat 7A —> FINISHED
Dear Edward —> currently listening to
Crooked Kingdom —> about to start
Rose Madder
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Winds of Dune

Moody May 2021

Some authors who always make me smile will be my mood reading for May :) Books/authors linked when read.

Punning with Scissors Becky Clark 5/12/21
Beyond a Reasonable Donut Ginger Bolton 5/24/21
The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit Krista Davis 5/30/21
Peaches and Schemes Anna Gerard 5/17/21
Insects, Ivy & Investgations Tonya Kappes 5/4/21
Death in Bloom Jess Dylan 5/28/21
Pint of No Return Dana Mentink 5/23/21
Tall, Dark and Deadly Patti Benning 5/9/21

Since it's me, my Mood is SF.
Read: Talk to Me May 1 NG ARC and for Genreland May Monkey Challenge
When The Blue Shift Comes SF and for HOB Color Coded May Challenge

Reading : Tipping Point Contemporary SF Cli-Fi (May 2-)
And Revelation Space SF Far Future (May 3- )

Read: May 4-5
OF MEN AND MONSTERS, Tom Deady, CLP ARC, release May 28
BEFORE HE WAKES, Mark Allan Gunnells, CLP ARC Release May 7
May 5-6:
TERROR IN THE SHADOWS VOL 14 Horror
THE WHISPERING DEAD NG ARC supernatural
MAKING CONTACT NG ARC 5 UFO +
SAIRO'S CLAW HG ARC
. THE EXTINCTION EVENT 3 SF/APOCALYPTIC

6. TERROR IN THE SHADOWS VOL 14
7. THE WHISPERING DEAD NG ARC
8. MAKING CONTACT NG ARC 5
9. SAIRO'S CLAW HG 
10. THE EXTINCTION EVENT 3 SF/APOCALYPTIC
11. MONKEY WITH A TOOL BELT AND CRAFTIEST CHRISTMAS EVER NG ARC 5 children's Genreland Fantasy
12. THE PLOT NG ARC 3
13. THE COLOR COLLECTOR VIRTUAL/LIBRARY 5 CHILDREN'S HOB MAY COLOR CODED
14. A MASTER OF DJINN NG ARC 5 F MOUNT TBR
15. HOME SS (MURDERBOT) SF
16. SON OF THE STORM NG ARC FANTASY
17. TWISTED FAIRY TALES OCTO-PUSS IN BOOTS NG ARC CHILDREN'S FANTASY 5
18. F IND YOU FIRST NG ARC MOUNT TBR 5
19. MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW NG ARC 5
20. SCREAMS FROM THE VOID NG ARC 5 SF FT
21. 21. THE ALBUM OF DR. MOREAU NG ARC 4 SF MOUNT TBR
22. INTO THE DREAD VOID HG ARC  5 HORROR SF
23. TALES OF THE 🍄 FOLK ARC 5 EDELWEISS
24. GOBLIN NG ARC 5
25. MOTHER MAY I LIBRARY VIRTUAL 4
26. HOWLS FROM HELL ANTHOLOGY NG ARC 4
27. THE REVELATOR NG ARC 5
28. NIGHT TERRORS VOL 14 ARC
29. SPOT THE MONKEY IN THE JUNGLE CHILDREN'S EDELWEISS 4 ARC MOUNT TBR
30. SEW CUTE AND COLLECTIBLE SOCK MONKEYS EDELWEISS ARC 4 MOUNT TBR
31. THE ANDROMEDA EVOLUTION VIRTUAL LIBRARY 5 SF
32. THE THRONE OF ICE AND ASH HG 5
33. THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD NG ARC 5 MOUNT TBR
34. The Monkey Mind Workout for Perfectionism NG ARC 3
35. HARD REBOOT NG ARC 4
36. BEASTS BEFORE US NG ARC 4
37. THE CRETACEOUS PAST NG ARC 4
38. IMPOSTOR SYNDROME NG ARC 4
39. THIEF OF SOULS NG ARC 5
40. SOMEBODY'S VOICE NG ARC MOUNT TBR 5
41. WHY DON'T ASTRONAUTS BURP? NG ARC CHILDREN'S 5
42. FRESH WATER HG 5
43. THE UPLIFT WARS 5 SF
44. TERRORS IN THE SHADOWS VOL 15
45. LAMPREYS

Note: May is Moody SF. June is SciFi Summer at Seasons of Reading Readathons. July is SF here at Devour. August is--SF, what Else ¿ September is Space Opera September at SFf180.:D

Reading Reindeer 2021 On Proxima Centauri wrote: "Note: May is Moody SF. June is SciFi Summer at Seasons of Reading Readathons. July is SF here at Devour. August is--SF, what Else ¿ September is Space Opera September at SFf180.:D"

This made me laugh so hard I had to explain to my spouse what I was laughing at. I LOVE these themes! 😂 So many months of sci-fi and all the unique names, that's awesome!

✨ current reads:
- Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
- A Court of Wings and Ruin (re-read)

✨ completed reads:
- Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I plan to read:

- The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

It's a short list but books that i've been meaning to read for a while!

I have been in the mood for some dark romances so I am definitely going to binge read a couple.

Currently Reading:


finished:

Hostage
The Last Graduate
Under the Whispering Door
The Bone Houses
Songs in Ursa Major
The Girl With Stars In Her Eyes
Bath Haus

The Candle and the Flame
The Songbook of Benny Lament
Anxious People
Project Hail Mary
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
Ruin and Rising
King of Scars
Rule of Wolves
Nemesis Games

I just finished reading Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. Here is what I plan on reading and/or finishing this month:

-A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by Reginald Dwayne Betts
-The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
-Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
-Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
-The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE by Simon Schama
-The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
-James Weldon Johnson: Writings by James Weldon Johnson
-Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918-1926 by Ernest Hemingway
Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost
-Kindred / Fledgling / Collected Stories by Octavia E. Butler
-No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics, and the Future by Joerg Rieger

Edit: Ok well turns out I haven't actually been doing any "mood reading" in a while and it turns out my mood changes a Lot XD

The Rise of Magicks

Go the Distance

The Dragon of Ynys

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

And Short the Season

The Cheerleaders

The Girl from the Sea

The Fountains of Silence

Huh, it looks like I actually managed to finish all of the books I planned to this month!!!

The titles that I'm going to pick from this month are:

- Body Positive Power: How learning to love yourself will save your life by Megan Jayne Crabbe
- Bridge of Souls by V.E. Schwab
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- Too Much Is Not Enough by Andrew Rannells

And maybe (though these'll probably bleed into June):

- Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price
- Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
- The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- With You All the Way by Cynthia Hand

My list of books that I'll be picking from this month:

- The Duke and I
- Perfect on Paper
- Cruel Acts
- I Was Anastasia
- The Mothers
- The Project
- You and Me on Vacation
- Malibu Rising
- A Spark of Light
- Only Mostly Devastated
- Priest of Bones
- The Survivors
- Well Played
- Twice in a Blue Moon
- The Viscount Who Loved Me
- The Betrayals

My TBR for this month:

Rick
The House in the Cerulean Sea
ジャッカス! ～触っていいって誰が言ったよ?～ Jackass! - Sawatte Ii tte Dare ga Itta yo?
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
We Are Okay

☆Laura☆ wrote: "My TBR for this month:

Rick
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
The Lost Book of the White"

Oh, I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea! Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!

My list of books:
Finishing You, and starting Hidden Bodies

We'll see from there how it goes

Susy wrote: "☆Laura☆ wrote: "My TBR for this month:

Rick
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
[book:The Lost Book of the Whit..."

I'm sure I will! TJ KLune has yet to let me down haha. Hope you enjoy your readings too! :)

Library reads:
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Books:
Scherbenseele
The Two Towers
Der Vollstrecker
Der Knochenbrecher
Der Pate
Leah on the Offbeat
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Das Mädchen im Fluss
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Irgendwie anders
Basar der bösen Träume

and mangas:
Electric Hands
歯医者なんてキライだ! Haisha Nante Kirai da!
Only the Ring Finger Knows: Der Ringfinger schweigt
Coyote 2
Fair Blue
Faint Hearts
Boys after Dark
I Will Love You Tenderly

currently reading:


borrowed/on the whim/in betweens/library:


actual TBR:

Ok, this has come at a really good time for me:

- City of Spells
- Wundersmith: Nevermoor book 2
- All the Stars and Teeth
- The Hyena and the Hawk
- Legendary (reread)
- The Hunger Games (reread)
- Catching Fire (reread)
- Mockingjay (reread)

I usually like having a plan, and knowing three or four books ahead what I'm going to be reading. But I'm going to give this mood reading a try. Other than what's already in progress, I'm not going to create a TBR. Instead, I'll update this list as I go.

Currently reading:
1Q84 - FINISHED (finally!)
The Bronze Key - FINISHED
The Song of Achilles - FINISHED
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - FINISHED
The Two Towers
Inkdeath
Rise and Fall - FINISHED

Added along the way:
The Evertree - FINISHED
The Silver Mask - FINISHED
Before They Were Authors: Famous Writers as Kids - FINISHED
Bob - FINISHED
The Golden Tower - FINISHED
1984
The Blending Time - FINISHED
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Tales of the Fallen Beasts

destiny ♡⚔♡ wrote: " Reading Reindeer 2021 On Proxima Centauri wrote: "Note: May is Moody SF. June is SciFi Summer at Seasons of Reading Readathons. July is SF here at Devour. August is--SF, what Else ¿ September is S..."

ROFL! I live to share 📚. Simce Sept. 1 of 2020, I live to share SF [and DEBRIS!]
(SF Obsession is my middle name )

Sophie, thumbs up on Project Hail Mary!
I also recommend The Effort,
We Have Always Been Here,
Sisters of the Vast Black,
And Persephone Station

I am in! Books to follow!

I just finished the Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp graphic novel! It was cute, I definitely recommend it for anyone who grew up on Goosebumps and wants some nostalgia in a newer, more diverse way :)

I finished The Lake of Darkness and started Cold Skin today.

I'm currently reading:
Writers & Lovers
Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Finished De acht bergen /The Eight Mountains and Nachtlicht/Cold Skin. Both quite sad stories.

Finished Six of Crows
Starting The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and still listening to We

Currently reading :
Anna Karenina
Catherine House

Read :
The Vegetarian
Concrete Rose
Yolk
The Valley of Horses
とんがり帽子のアトリエ 5 Tongari Boushi no Atelier 5
Little Brother: A Refugee's Odyssey
Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction

Hopefuls :
Les impatientes
The Midnight Library
The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1

Update:


Nachtlicht (Cold Skin) —> FINISHED
The Lake of Darkness —> FINISHED
Six of Crows —> FINISHED
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue —> FINISHED
De acht bergen (The Eight Mountains)—> FINISHED
Emma wil leven: Een waargebeurd verhaal over de strijd tegen anorexia —> FINISHED
We —> FINISHED
Seat 7A —> FINISHED
Dear Edward —> currently listening to
Crooked Kingdom —> about to start
Rose Madder
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Winds of Dune

Msg. 4 updated. Got all my ARCs for May read :D