Read:
Life and Holiness – Thomas Merton (Herder and Herder, 1963)
Stone Blind – Natalie Haynes (Harper, 2022)
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay (Penguin Books, 2017)
Cousins – Aurora Venturini (translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude) (Soft Skull Press, 2023)
When Women Were Dragons – Kelly Barnhill (Random House Audio, 2022)
Life and Other Love Songs – Anissa Gray (Berkley, 2023)
The Certainties – Aislinn Hunter (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2020)
The Mythmakers – Keziah Weir (McClelland & Stewart, 2023)
A Good Neighbourhood – Therese Anne Fowler (MacMillan Audio, 2020)
Did Not Finish:
Book of Delights – Ross Gay
Scaramouche – Rafael Sabatine
Currently Reading:
Fortune’s Bazaar – Vaudine England
2023 GOALS:
Books Read: 46/100 (9 read in May)
Translated Works: 4/15 (Cousins, translated from Spanish)
Books I Already Own: 7/30 (Nothing in May)
Books From the TBR pre-2020: 6/20 (Nothing in May)
Current TBR: 213 (previously 217)
Thoughts:
May has been a long month and I think that’s well reflected in my having read 9 books. The books I finished at the beginning of May feel like they are from a long time ago. I feel that I’m in a good rhythm of reading daily and balancing out different genres and formats.
This month Stone Blind was an unexpected hit while When Women Were Dragons was a real disappontment. The Certainties and The Mythmakers were a couple of others I quite enjoyed and hope to review soon.
What’s Next:
20 Books of Summer! I’ll share my list in a separate post tomorrow!
Karissa Reads Books 
have an amazing june and love the blog.
Thank you so much!
I keep hearing about Ross Gay. Did his book just not land for you?
It’s compromised of very brief vignettes and somehow his voice just didn’t work for me. He’s very upbeat but I didn’t feel generally uplifted. They are personal stories but I didn’t feel like I was getting to know him.
Interesting. Maybe he was too much like a composite of a cohort.