🌸Things I Enjoyed in MAY (May wrap-up) 🌸

Hello everyone 

I cannot believe how fast the month of May has sailed by. Despite still being in lockdown, the days seem to be moving faster than ever and I'm managing to fill my time. 


🌸 Books 🌸

I've had a really good month books and reading wise - the best this year so far - and it has also been a really good month for my blog and for my Instagram account, where lots of follower milestones have been hit! I'm currently planning my June TBR, which will be posted over on Instagram soon. Maybe head over and follow if you don't wanna miss it ;) 

Books read: 13

I managed to read everything on this stack, plus 2 books on my Kindle which were A STUDY IN SCARLET/SHERLOCK HOLMES #1 by Arthur Conan Doyle and MARROW BOOK ONE by Alex Blythe. I'm so pleased I am finally getting into ebooks and I plan to read quite a few books on my Kindle in June. 

Here are my Goodreads ratings for the month:

The Folk of the Faraway tree ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Study in Scarlet ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Hunger Games ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Hunger Games Mocking Jay ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Marrow Book One ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

              The Hunger Games Catching Fire ⭐⭐⭐⭐

                As Old as Time ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ⭐⭐⭐⭐

             Queen Victoria ⭐⭐⭐⭐

          The Magic Faraway Tree ⭐⭐⭐⭐

         The Enchanted Wood ⭐⭐⭐⭐

                             

     Up the Faraway Tree ⭐⭐

Books bought/received: 28 (Even I didn't realise it was this bad!!)

Subscription Boxes:

• Sanditon & other stories – Jane Austen (Beautiful Book company classic sub box)
• Say, Say, Say – Lila Savage (Books that Matter sub box)
• The Red Daughter - John Burnam Schwartz (Book and a Brew sub box)  

Purchases:

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Tidelands - Philippa Gregory 
• The Witchfinder's Sister - Beth Underdown
• Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen - Alison Weir
• David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (all 13) - Lemony Snicket 

Kindle Purchases:

• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
• The Librarian of Auschwitz - Antonio Iturbe 
• Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Beatrix Potter: Ultimate Collection 
• Alice in Wonderland: The Complete Collection - Lewis Carroll
• Marrow Book One - Alex Blythe 

This month's favourite: A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes #1 by Arthur Conan Doyle

I loved this introduction to Holmes and Watson and I think Holmes' quirks are very funny. I enjoyed the plot line and I think I'm really going to enjoy the rest of the books. As you can see from the photo I have the whole collection, which I downloaded recently for 99p!!!

🌸 Tv & Films 🌸

I've been watching a variety of things this month and definitely binged watched a lot of shows. Currently I have Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime (it's a lot I know), and I've been doing my best to make use of them all. I shudder to think the amount of hours I have spent watching shows in bed this month, but I did find some really good things! 

1) A Series of Unfortunate Events: Netflix 2017-2019

Having never read or watched A Series of Unfortunate Events before, I stumbled across Neil Patrick Harris' Netflix adaption by accident and it was good timing, as I'd also just seen a fellow bookstagrammer read all 13 books in a week. As you can see from my haul photo, I too bought all 13 books which I can't wait to start reading and it's safe to say I am now obsessed with it all. The series was a great balance of funny and disturbing and I really loved the portrayal of Count Olaf. 

2) Prop Culture: Disney+ 2020

I am a huge Disney fan and I absolutely love so many of the films so this series was perfect for me. Dan Lanigan is so passionate about the holding and preservation of Disney artifacts and this series means we can gain an insight into the usually top secret Disney archives. I particularly enjoyed the first episode, about Mary Poppins, in which we get to see original costumes and the charming carousel horses, and I also enjoyed seeing the puppets of Jack in the Nightmare Before Christmas episode. I'm definitely hoping for a season 2!!! 

3) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Episode I

I decided to take the plunge and start properly and fully watching Star Wars (including the TV series) and I kicked this off chronologically from Episode I as I think it'll help me understand more in this order. I really enjoyed the introduction into Jedis and the relationship between Anakin Skywalker and his mother. 

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I hope that this post was an enjoyable one and that you may have taken some recommendations from it. I can't wait to have these posts to look back on in future and I found it really fun and worthwhile writing such a reflective post. I'll definitely be back next month with a June wrap up! 

 

xxxx