monday musings…May TBR pile

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Behold my May reading pile. I’m both intimidated and excited by this one. It’s a bigger TBR pile than usual – so intimidated, but it’s my final big arc pile – so excited. After this, I only have one or two arc’s per month for the next few months. I’m not going to ALA or BEA this year so I will be free and clear to tackle my older books and that’s been my reading goal for 2017.




Let’s take a closer look at the books shall we?

*Title links lead to Goodreads
*Quoted summaries from Goodreads
*All books were either provided by the publisher/or via ALA

~ The Truth About Happily Ever After by Karole Cozzo – “Chin up, Princess, or the crown will slip.
A theme park princess must put her life back together after her happily ever after falls apart in this contemporary YA romance from Karole Cozzo, author of How to Keep Rolling After a Fall and How to Say I Love You Out Loud.”

Sounds like a lighter, fun read

~ Grit by Gillian French – “His presence beside me is like heat, like weight, something I’ve carried around on my back too long.
Raw and moving, this contemporary realistic debut novel will leave readers of E. Lockhart and Gayle Forman breathless as it unflinchingly unfolds the tragic secrets being kept in a small, deceptively idyllic Maine town.”

I’m not too sure about this on TBH but what the hell – I’ll give it a go.

~ I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo “Desi Lee knows how carburetors work. She learned CPR at the age of five. As a high school senior, she has never missed a day of school and has never had a B in her entire life. She's for sure going to Stanford. But—she’s never had a boyfriend. In fact, she’s a disaster in romance, a clumsy, stammering humiliation-magnet whose botched attempts at flirting have become legendary with her friends. So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her life one day, Desi decides to tackle her flirting failures with the same zest she’s applied to everything else in her life. She finds her answer in the Korean dramas her father has been obsessively watching for years…”

I’m super excited for this one. It just sounds like an adorable summer read.

~ Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon “two girls are stronger than the circumstances that brought them together, and their resilience defines the friendship at the heart of this powerful debut novel.”

The reviews for this one are *best book ever* or *dnf* It sounds fairly dark – a mom in prison, biker clubs, lawyers that don’t respect the law – it could go either way for me I guess but I’m trying to take more chances with my reading so we’ll see.

~ Noteworthy by Riley Redgate “It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, she’s an Alto 2, which—in the musical theatre world—is sort of like being a vulture in the wild: She has a spot in the ecosystem, but nobody’s falling over themselves to express their appreciation. So it’s no surprise when she gets shut out of the fall musical for the third year straight.
Then the school gets a mass email: A spot has opened up in the Sharpshooters, Kensington’s elite a cappella octet. Worshiped ... revered ... all male. Desperate to prove herself, Jordan auditions in her most convincing drag, and it turns out that Jordan Sun, Tenor 1, is exactly what the Sharps are looking for.”

Ok – I admit I fell for the cover for this one and had no idea what it was about lol I was happy to see my favorite reviewer – Jen from YA romantics - review on Goodreads saying that she loved it so whoop!

~ When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon “A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged for them to be married.”

This is the book that I’m looking forward to reading the most. *please be good…please be good…*

April reading:

I cleared all 5 books from the April TBR pile. The Upside of Unrequited was my fave, What Light was meh, Alex & Eliza wasn’t quite what I expected but still enjoyable, I DNF’d Black Widow because you really need to have read book #1 and I haven’t, I’m just finishing up Holding Up the Universe – so far it’s pretty good but I’m not blown away.

I read a total of 20 books for the month   

And I’m 23 books ahead on my Goodreads reading challenge:

  

2017 Reading Challenge

Karen has read 62 books toward her goal of 120 books.

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62 of 120 (51%)

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