May Wrap-Up

Did I get anything done in May that I wanted to? No.

Was May a productive month? Also pretty much no.

My plan at the start of the month was to listen to as many audiobooks as I would normally, but also to read at least one physical book, and two ebooks. Granted, I read two short stories on my ereader, but it's not quite what I planned on getting read, and it certainly does not count for three books!

DNF

The Perfect Marriage by Adam Mitzner

FOUR STARS

Until Forever by Mia Sanchez

FIVE STARS

The Echoes of Us by Emma Steele

Murder at Whiteadder House

The Island by Natasha Preston

Secret Summer by Elizabeth Grey

I did, however, read 6 additional books for work, so if we take them into account as well, I read 9 books, and 2 short stories.

This month is the first since I started doing this where I have a DNF category. I started listening to The Perfect Marriage, and got as far as Chapter 8 (nearly 2 hours into the 9 hour audiobook). It just was not gripping me, and had so so so much description, and not much happening. I was getting so bored, I decided it wasn't worth my time to finish listening to it.

The Echoes of Us I primarily listened to on a road trip in a hired van to go and collect some chairs from a closed down pub, to put in my very open pub. Clearly, if the pub is open, the chairs get more worn and end up breaking! It was a book I chose on a whim, and actually ended up being really good. I did really enjoy that one, although the ending... my goodness, the ending. My heart! (I won't spoil it. Go and read it.)

I started reworking an old blog post, with some short story reviews, hence the short stories I read this month. I had already written two reviews for the post, but have now added two more and the post is ready to go. 

Something else I didn't get done this month was finishing the editing of the third of my short stories for publication. I haven't worked through it at all. Maybe this month will be the month. On the plus side, I had a Netgalley promotion for the first book in the series, and got 5 new good reviews.

My goals for next month:

Finally actually edit this book of mine. It's only 5 chapters. It really shouldn't take me too long. I just need to sit down and actually do it.

Hopefully do some writing. I have constant ideas and never write any of it down. Even if it's just a short story, I was to get something written this month.

Get some blog posts out...! I say this every month, and then don't post anything all month. I think maybe if I stop overthinking it so much, I might get something written. Maybe even deviate a little bit from my normal writing/reading stuff and do some stuff about my everyday life instead. That might get me writing maybe.

These wrap ups are turning more and more into what I did and didn't do with my month, and less about what I did or didn't read!

Anyway, that's all for now.

Bye!