Month in Review: May 2019

Favorite Media

I read a couple of great books last month—The Unhoneymooners and Star-Crossed come to mind—but it was Avengers: Endgame that hit me the most. I remember watching all of the MCU movies that had been released by 2012 so that I could see The Avengers in theaters, and I’ve seen every MCU movie since. I knew going into Endgame that I was going to be emotional, but I legitimately cried multiple times and was pretty much a wreck for the rest of the day. It wasn’t a perfect film, but it was still exactly what I wanted.

Stuff I Added to My Queue

Arcs I picked up at BEA…

• Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
• We Are Lost and Found
• Frankly in Love
• The Grace Year
• The Bookwanderers
• Scars like Wings
• 10 Blind Dates
• The Last True Poets of the Sea
• The Best at It
• Jinxed

While at BEA, I also snagged an arc of The Magicians: Alice’s Story, a completed (and signed!) copy of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, and added Rebel Girls—which I saw on the show floor but wasn’t able to take home.

ICYMI

• Marie posted five reasons why she keeps writing book reviews
• The cons (and pros) of tagging authors in negative reviews continues…
• Chelsea listed 25 middle-grade books by black authors on Book Riot

What were YOU up to in May? Let me know!