May Book List

May
1-55 The Keeping - Nicky Charles (5/2)
2-56 Wondrous Strange - Lesley Livingston (5/3)
3-57 Never Cry Werewolf - Heather Davis (5/5)
4-58 Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris (5/8)
5-59 Hearts at Stake - Alyxandra Harvey (5/10)
6-60 Blood Feud - Alyxandra Harvey (5/10)
7-61 Love=Sex(squared) - Shinjo Mayu (5/13)
8-62 Black Bird Volume 1 - Sakurakouji Kanoko (5/13)
9-63 Black Bird Volume 2 - Sakurakouji Kanoko (5/13)
10-64 Darklight - Lesley Livingston (5/14)
11-65 Black Bird Volume 3 - Sakurakouji Kanoko (5/15)
12-66 Black Bird Volume 4 - Sakurakouji Kanoko (5/15)
13-67 Black Bird Volume 5 - Sakurakouji Kanoko (5/15)
14-68 Black Bird Volume 6 - Sakurakouji Kanoko (5/15)
15-69 Out for Blood - Alyxandra Harvey (5/15)
16-70 Death Note Another Note - Ishin Nishio (5/16)
17-71 Vampire Knight Volume 12 - Matsuri Hino (5/16)
18-72 The Poison Eaters - Holly Black (5/17)
19-73 This Side of the Grave - Jeaniene Frost (5/18)
20-74 The Dead Girls’ Dance - Rachel Caine (5/23)
21-75 Pleasure Unbound - Larissa Ione (5-24)
22-76 101 Things To Do With A Slow Cooker - Stephanie Ashcraft (5/27)
23-77 Queen of Kings - Maria Headly (5/30)


so, May is over. it was a big reading month for me. but a good chunk of that was manga. I rediscovered Black Bird, which was one i'd read the first few volumes of a couple years ago, and it's finally being translated. I read the Death Note book, which is based on manga/anime. We've had it a few years and I just got around to it. Good, if you know the characters from Death Note.

I've been trying to read at least one non-fiction a month, maybe next year i'll bump that up to two, but for now one is good. My non-fiction this month is a cook book. 101 Things to do with a slow cooker. I love my crockpot and i'm always looking for new recipes for it. There are a couple for pork chops i'm going to try, and ross has requested soup.

My favorite books this month were probably Wondrous Strange and Darklight, i'm loving this series and can't wait for the next one. They're YA Fae books based on Shakespeare. /squee!

my least favorite, and i hate to admit this, was Queen of Kings. I should have liked this book. It's Cleopatra, and Vampires...what's not to love? the speed. It was a slow start, and too much of it was depressing. That being said, it's very Anne Rice "Queen of the Damned" meets Anne Rice "Ramses the Damned". we're all Damned.....(please note i love both those books...)

I'm still reading Game of Thrones (my mom had my nook so i couldn't work on it). and The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. I love the Percy Jackson series, and the new one based on Rome. And I'm loving his Egyptian series too! Also got mom hooked on these. (happy dance). And I'm reading the Witch's Daughter, which is good so far, but no real comments yet.