Bookmark Lit Bulletin | May 2023

Posted June 2, 2023 / Bookmark Lit Bulletin, Features, Wrap-Ups / 3 Comments

BL header The Bookmark Lit Bulletin wraps up the last month in reading and what was on the blog, as well as what’s coming up next. You can check out my book haul, books read, posts shared, challenge updates, etc. You can read past bulletins here. If you’re looking for more personal updates, you can check out my Lauren Lately feature; it highlights my life events and non-bookish fun from the previous 30 days.

I learned that I’m totally ~~annoying~~ anal about my reading wrap-ups. I either want to finish 9 books or 12 books because of the Instagram story template options. If I read 10 or 11 books, there are blank boxes on the template and I don’t like it! This led me to completely overachieve in May because I decided to bang out two books in the last two and a half days of the month to get to 12!

12 books in May

11 read • 1 reread • 0 DNF

Pages read: 4951 • Average rating: 3.96 stars

Genres: 5 fantasy, 3 contemporary, 1 literary fiction

Formats: 6 mixed, 3 egalley, 1 hardcover, 1 ebook, 1 audio

Sources: 4 review, 3 purchased, 2 library, 2 owned, 1 borrowed

Age Target: 7 adult, 4 young adult, 1 new adult

Here are all the books I read this month with ratings and one-line thoughts!

Favorite & Cozy

four-half-stars

A Bit Disappointed

four-stars

Needed More Oomph

three-half-stars

Excellent Reread

four-half-stars

Cute Fake Dating

four-stars

Overhyped & Cheesy AF

three-half-stars

Tandem Read – Good

four-stars

Tandem Read – OK

three-half-stars

Breezy Vineyard Mystery

four-stars

Unputdownable

four-half-stars

Charming Murder (?!)

three-half-stars

Slow-Burn Second Chance

four-stars

floral

Popsugar Reading Challenge: 62%

52 Book Club: 60%

Buzzword Reading Challenge: 8%

Must Read in 2023: 50%

Romanceopoly: 8%

Mystery/Thriller Reading Challenge: 73%

Breakdown: 25 purchased | 0 free/gifted | 8 review copies
All review copies were provided for free in exchange for an honest review.

For Review

From Macmillan: Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Greenberg, Dark Corners by Goldin

From Penguin Random House: Summer Reading by McKinley, The Deja Glitch by James,
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Fawcett

From Hachette: Skip to the End by James

From Simon & Schuster: The Reunion by Frick

Purchased – Digital

Kindle: Defy the Night by Kemmerer, What’s for Dessert by Saffitz, Jade City by Lee

Physical Books & BOTM

Pango Books: Hell Bent by Bardugo, Babel by Kuang, Miracle Creek by Kim,
The Silent Patient by Michaelides, The Thursday Murder Club by Osman, 11/22/63 by King