We are entering the halfway point of 2021 - how did we get here? In a few months, it will be Autumn again (thankfully, because I loathe hot weather), but still, I feel like Christmas just happened.
May was a very successful reading month for me. I was able to at least start every book that I put on my May TBR and I credit this to putting away my phone. I didn’t interact with as many IG posts as I usually do, but it so easy for 30 minutes or more to go by because of mechanical scrolling. May was also a busy work month and I find that when work ramps up, I’m more tempted to scroll on my phone because my brain feels “fried.” However, I combated this a bit (not always, but better than I have in the past), by first listening to something soothing before just jumping into a book. I find that if I’m too tense or wound up before sitting down to read, I can’t focus and end up reaching for my phone.
That being said, June features some new books, as well as two that are rolling over.
- A Legacy - Last Summer, my friend Julia and I read Middlemarch together and it was so much fun! We wanted to buddy read another book and decided on A Legacy - neither of us have read anything by Sybille Bedford, but if Nancy Mitford says it’s good, then it must be good. Who doesn’t love a good family drama?
- Young Anne - I’m a big fan of Dorothy Whipple’s writing and I wish she got more recognition. Young Anne is a coming of age story and I think I may be able to squeeze this one in at the end of the month and let it linger into July.
- The Existentialist Cafe - (I saw this book on IG, I couldn’t resist and had to snag it immediately. I’m actually reading the physical copy in tandem with the audiobook because there are so many passages that I want annotate and I want be able to refer back to the hard copy whenever I’d like. I’m not very far in the book yet, but I’m enjoying it - it’s well written and makes phenomenology and existentialism easier to comprehend.
- The Greek Way - this book is only 250-something pages long, but it’s taken me about two months to finish it. I’m at the end now. I didn’t expect this book to be one I’d want to really take my time with, but I’m enjoying it so much I decided to slow it down. I only need to read 5-10 pages at a time and then chew on it because Edith Hamilton packs so much into this slim volume.
- Crime & Punishment - Another buddy ready with my friend Rebekah and slow burner. I started this in May and I’m not even 100 pages in yet. One doesn’t always needs to rush…
- Outline - I’ve been intrigued by Cusk’s Outline Trilogy for a while now. It seems like my cup of tea…
This is an ambitious stack, but I’m not going to make myself finish all of these books this month. What doesn’t get finished will roll over to the next month and so on. Perhaps I should start referring to my monthly reading lists as “monthly rotations”…
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