May 2020 Wrap-Up

Well! May was a month, wasn’t it? I suppose we could just stop there and call it a day, but I suppose I’ll go into a little more detail.

Books Read:

I’ve been reading some books from my seasonal TBR! Woo! I still only read nine books this month, but I’ve been whittling down my Spring TBR. Out of the nine books, there were three rereads:

• The Rose Society – Marie Lu (reread)
• The Midnight Star – Marie Lu (reread)
• Malediction – Katerina King
• Red Famine – Anne Applebaum
• Tell Me Everything – Sarah Enni
• Chain of Gold – Cassandra Clare (reread)
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins
• 1453 – Roger Crowley
• Of Silver and Shadow – Jennifer Gruenke

Blog Stats:

I’m currently at 2,204 Twitter followers. I thought I had lost followers this month, but I guess not!

Blog traffic is steady.

Writing:

I’m still publishing my fanfic, Saving Adelinetta, on AO3. There are currently 20 chapters published. I have written 30 chapters, although I expect there’ll be 40-45 chapters total.

Last week, a scene between James Herondale and Cordelia Carstairs kept going through my head and I had to write it. So I also published “Wedding Runes,” a short story, to AO3. I normally don’t write for such a large fandom, so I was fairly surprised, because it’s been getting a lot more hits than I’m used to.

I haven’t done too many edits to The Brightness of Shadow but I’ll get to it again at some point.

Life:

So we are done with school for the year. Hooray! That means more time to read.

We were planning on driving to my mother-in-law’s house in Arizona for my daughter’s 18th birthday later this week. It might be too dangerous to go now. We’ll see. My dh is still unemployed so we’re flexible.

My heart breaks for all the hurting people in this country right now. May was such a difficult month for so many people. So many people out of work, so many people sick, and so many people feeling helpless because of racial injustice.

I’ve been thinking about The Kiss Quotient lately. I identified with the main character, Stella, so much when I read it. When I was in high school, I even thought the only way I might ever get someone to go out with me is if I paid them. I didn’t think so at the time I wrote my review, but since then a part of me wonders if if maybe I actually am a little bit on the autism spectrum. It would explain so much. Some things have happened in the past week that seem to confirm my suspicions. Not that it makes any difference in who I am.

So that was May. I’m really hoping we have good things to say about June? It’s both my and my daughter’s birth month. I think I’ll have some good reading statistics to share, I might get some writing done… but with all the violence going on the past few days, and a pandemic still going on, I’m not sure if the US as a nation will be doing all that well. 🙁