Reading Wrap Up for May 2022

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May was a good reading month with some hits and only a few clunkers (with one DNF). Let's recap all the books!
Links 💻
LGBTQ in Translation Readalong June/July Results: • Video
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Further Viewing 🎥
My Pride Month Pile of Possibilities: • My June/Pride Month TBR
My Review of Election and Tracy Flick Can’t Win: • Is Tracy Flick Worth R...
My 2012 Pulitzer Controversy Video: • Do Book Prizes Owe Us ...
My Most Anticipated Books of 2022: • My Most Anticipated Bo...
My May Book Haul Part 1: • Book Haul Part 1 for M...
Titles Mentioned 📚
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing, Lauren Hough
Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
Solo Dance, Li Kotomi (translated by Arthur Reiji Morris)
Election, Tom Perrotta
Tracy Flick Can’t Win, Tom Perrotta
Paying the Land, Joe Sacco
Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas (translated by Dolores M. Koch)
Life Went On Anyway: Stories, Oleg Sentsov (translated by Uilleam Blacker)
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[@ameliabarlowbooks]

Train Dreams and Paying the Land both sound fantastic! I spent most of May with Great Circle and loved every second of it, but I did get round to a little bit of non fiction and a re-read of an old favourite too. glad you had a fruitful month, loved the 'eating your greens' analogy!

[@SupposedlyFun]

I admit I cribbed the analogy from Vanity Fair's movie critic Richard Lawson. It really is a good one.

[@CharlesHeathcote]

The only Sacco I have read is Palestine and I had a similar experience - somewhat dense, and perhaps the first time I've found myself taking time with a graphic novel to mull over everything. I'll keep an eye out for Paying the Land. Apart from the Denis Johnson, I hadn't heard of these books before, and I very much appreciated hearing your thoughts on them. I think that my favourite book of May is The Magician by Colm Tóibín. I'm trying to figure out how to discuss it, because it's a book with a steady pace, where the author chooses to take time to tell the tale without cutting any corners. I hope that June brings some new favourites your way, and look forward to hearing how you get on.

[@SupposedlyFun]

Thank you! I’ll have to explore Sacco’s other books. I’ve yet to read a Tóibín but I’ve heard good things about The Magician. I hope your June reading goes well, too!

[@FrankieOlive91]

I leaned into AAPI for May and read Siren Queen, Fiona and Jane, Things We Lost to the Water and the Bad Muslim Discount (great book). I wasn’t planning on reading much for Pride Month but realized how much LGBTQ TBR I actually already have on my shelves. Reading Detransition, Baby right now. I recently purchased Female Husbands: A Trans History recommended to me by Book Riot’s TBR so I’ll slip that in there as well. LGBTQ is my third highest genre behind Literary and Historical on StoryGraph so far this year. I find that interesting because it was not actually intentional. I am very much drawn to read about people who have different life experiences than me, though.

[@SupposedlyFun]

My AAPI read was Ma and Me, so unfortunately, it's carrying into Pride Month (but at least it fits both categories). Book Riot frequently has good recommendations. And I've learned a lot about myself as a reader from Storygraph's stats!

[@erinh7450]

I'm also sliding Disoriental into next month's pile. I'd had it on my TBR for a while, and decided to bump it up when you mentioned it last month - wasn't as interested in the other book. But... still haven't gotten to it. Hope to get to it before the library wants it back!

[@SupposedlyFun]

I'm excited to get back to Disoriental after the feedback on it from the group.

[@readandre-read]

I'm still on the hunt for a nice secondhand hardback of Train Dreams. My favorite book in May was The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois with Jane Eyre and Great Circle tied for second place.

[@SupposedlyFun]

I haven't read Jane Eyre (😱) but the others are unimpeachable.

[@mradcaqbdb]

I read/listened to 10 books in May, mostly very successful. My favorites were (in order of date read):
Train Dreams (audio)
MAUS volume 1
The Hacienda - Isabel Cañas - deliciously creepy
The Fervor - Alma Katsu
Freezing Order - Bill Browder - essential read!
The Problem With My Normal Penis - Obioma Ugoala (audio)

[@SupposedlyFun]

I have the Ugoala saved on Scribd.