May Wrap Up

OK, let me just start this off by saying May was pretty sweet.

I went to a convention, a concert, and the beach. The manfriend and I celebrated our four year anniversary. Overall, I had a good time.

Let’s take a look back!

          

Okay so this was not a good reading month for me at all.

I finished Windwitch, but I didn’t read it all in back to back sittings like I had with Truthwitch. I felt pretty scatter brained this month and kept switching back and forth between A Brief History of Ireland so it could help me relax and sleep haha. And I haven’t even finished the history book, but wanted to include it in attempts to give you a visual excuse for why it took me a month to finish a relatively short fantasy novel. I am the literal worst. 

And guys this had nothing to do with the quality of the novel because it is fairly quick paced and has lots of interesting twists and turns. I just did not have the attention span to sit and read. Frankly, I’m going to have to re-read it to give it the justice it deserves.

I then read Dark Places as quick as I could to make up for lost time. It was a great mystery, by the way! Still debating whether or not I should write a review or not…

                                             

As you can see, WordPress is doing terrible things to my TBR… (too many books, not enough time)

                    

And yes I already have a copy of Emma, but I didn’t have *this* copy and it’s just so cute. Plus, I simply couldn’t pass it up when the price dropped a bit on Amazon.

I had such an awesome month for blogging! I’ve actually had some good conversations with other bloggers. Putting yourself out there when commenting on someone’s blog can be nerve-wracking, but it is also rewarding.

Also, I’ve read a lot of blogging tips and advice posts so I completely re-designed my blog for the millionth time, but I am so in love with it now! (Cats!) I also learned that discussion posts tend to encourage people to start conversations with me so I’ve tried to come up with some good topics this month and I think I succeeded at that.

And that leads me into…

The Unicorn Wishes · Too Much of a Book Nerd

Charlotte and Jackie are very nice and so encouraging and I just love their blogs, ok?! *ugly crying*

Reviews:

The Cat, The Quilt, and The Corpse  · Truthwitch

Tags/Awards:

Top Ten Tuesday: Best Font Design Covers  ·  The Newbie Book Blog Tag  ·  Top Ten Tuesday: Reading Wishlist · Blogger Recognition Award (first ever tag for an award, people!!) · Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Summer Reads · Fierce Fangirl Friday (everyone check out Jackie’s new feature!) · The Sunshine Blogger Award (a second award? What is this sorcery?) · Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Releases

Hauls:

May Book Haul

Discussions:

The Characters You Love to Hate · Book to Movie?

Miscellaneous:

Bookshelf Tour! · April Wrap Up

The Heritage Society:

So, this place is cool as heck. Ryan and I went to tour some of Houston’s oldest buildings that were all moved to this one spot in downtown and there was a FREE museum (free?! in Houston?! Say whaaaa?) that showed a timeline of significant events in Houston and it was all around really interesting.

The Pillot House

Comicpalooza:

This is Houston’s big comic convention and Ryan and I have been going every year for the past 5 years now. Peggy Carter was my first (and so far my only) cosplay that I debuted here. I’ve had lots of great memories here and it’s an event I look forward to each year (along with TRF but that will have to be a future post ).

This print of Daenerys is now adorning my bookshelf thanks to Gabby Ramirez.

And look at this adorable cosplay of Newt Scamander I just! 

Celtic Woman:

I went to see these lovely ladies again (the first time was an entirely different ensemble of women), and it was so, so, so amazing. I waited in line to get one of the tour t-shirts and I just never want to stop wearing it because Irish ladies ❤

Four Year Anniversary:

Aaaand Ryan and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary this year. We went to Comicpalooza together for the first time 5 years ago and later that evening he asked me out (it was cute, guys). So overall, Ryan is my favorite person this month. 

Pirate’s Beach:

Finally went to the beach and got to rock the Torrid bathing suit I mentioned in last month’s wrap up and boy did I look cute af! 

*Obligatory book beach pic*

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Like, straight up I’ve never done this many things in one month. This was insane, but also a lot of fun. Looking back I can see why reading took a back burner so I’m not quite as disappointed as I was when I first started writing this post lol

What were some of your highlights for May?

Are you a Comic Con junkie or a Celtic Woman fan like myself?

Until next time…

                                             And if you read this far into this post, here’s a cookie. Thank you for reading this long-winded rambling of my month