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A Rainy Month -- May Wrap Up

The rainy month of May has come and gone. Yes, I know the rhyme is "April showers bring May flowers." However, May was very rainy, maybe even more so than April. While it was a rainy month, therefore creating the perfect mood for doing alot of reading, I really didn't read much. I don't know what was wrong with me. I just wasn't in the mood. Part of it I think was that I had too much on my mind to be able to sit down and focus on a book. Part of it was that I was just more content laying on the couch watching Netflix and napping. I am hoping that now that summer is here and my work schedules have switched up a bit that I will get back into a groove of reading each day, even if it's just a few chapters at a time. I love to read. I need to read. I miss reading when I give it up for awhile. And I have so many good books on my shelves and Nook that I don't want to leave them sitting and collecting dust.

 I wrote a few weeks ago about the Classics Club Spin round #2. But never checked in to share what my title is that I want to try and finish before July 1st, mostly because I haven't had a desire to write or read much. But, the number that was randomly selected was 6 which means that my title is Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. I started it, but only got past the first few pages before moving onto some other titles that I have found far more interesting. Titles that coincide with my passion for social justice, orphans and Christian discipleship. I have a lot going on this June, but hopefully will find a desire to actually sit down and focus on Wives and Daughters. We shall see and I will let you know how it goes. 

 Finally, with it being the first day of a new month, it's time for me to record and share my stats for the month of May. With feeling like I didn't read much and then looking at what I did read, I don't feel that bad about it. I am surprised that I actually read as much as I did! So without further ado, here is what I read last month! 


Books read: 
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
No Longer a SlumDog by K.P. Yohannan 
Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick
Just In Case I Can't Be There by Ron Mehl
The Last Romanov by Dora Levy Mossanen 
I Am a Church Member by Thom S. Rainer  
  A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
    
Favorite book read: 
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Least favorite book read: 
Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick 

Number of pages read this month: 
1,887 
Number of pages read this year: 
11,841
Numbers of books read this year: 
52
Number of Classics read so far: 
14 of 76

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