May Wrap Up & Pride Month TBR

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🌈 = LGBTQ+ rep | 🌱 = Mental Health rep |🌻 = POC rep
✨ = Disability, LD, Chronic Condition rep

Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen
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THIS WAS BRILLIANT. Omigosh, I adored this. It was adorable, fun – dare I say campy – but still brought all the feels and really important conversations. This is the book to pick up in pride month (also, like, a million more), and it’s such a celebration of all the spectrum of the LGBTQIA+ flag. Majorly recommend this one.

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A Sprinkle of Spirits by Anna Meriano
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This was a pretty good follow-up to A Dash of Trouble. It was still super cute and magical and fun. I definitely still prefer the first one, but it was a great sequel. Definitely a favorite MG series.

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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
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There was never any question that Acevedo’s newest read would get here. Acevedo can literally do no wrong with writing. This book was beautiful – the prose, the story, the characters. It was a story of hope and trauma and more. I love forever.

Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
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This certainly wasn’t a bad book – but it just didn’t bring the oomph that I needed from it. I thought the world-building was incredibly interesting, and it was such a fast paced fantasy world. I just wanted a bit more from the characters.

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Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson
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I think this was a case of my high expectations got the best of me. There were parts that I really loved, but I think I just put too much on this book. I found myself dragging in the latter half – but the highlight was the characters and the unique world, for sure!

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The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter by Aaron Reynolds
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This was the messiest book for me of the month. It was a lot that went wrong for me with this book – I was concerned with the writing, the content, and more with this. There was a wit to the writing, but the other issues overloaded everything else.

fairy godmother’s blessing: Sha and I have some exciting plans for June, and I think it finally might be my reading month???
evil stepmother’s curse: This month was rough. I have zero desire for reading.

📌 Sha and I have some super exciting coming up: next month will begin the start of our series of princess guest posts. Yes, some fantastic bloggers will be taking over our roles as book princesses and these new princesses and princes will be sharing their experiences with Disney. We’ll be starting off with a fantastic Mulan breakdown on how it relates to the original material. Sha and I loved it, and we can’t wait to share it with everyone else!

📌 We are officially at the end of Give-A-May! We enjoyed celebrating chances for giveaways that weren’t just limited to the US. Thank you to everyone that entered on Twitter!!

📌 As you can see, this girl failed at reading this month. Even though I have officially acclimated to the quarantine life, I think I got the blues this month, and I ended up not reading at all. I gave up on my audiobooks almost entirely, and reading books were given up for watching random things and staring at Disney pins on Instagram. I hit a slump with blogging as well – I definitely went silent on here for a good deal of the month as well. Since I have to do all of my work on a computer now, I’ve definitely had my fill of screen time, which had me struggling to pick the laptop back up after hours to do my blogging business. I’m hoping to be back in the zone in June!!

📌 Again, TV was my friend this month. I’ve currently in a binge of The Golden Girls, and I’m getting pretty close to being done. It’s fun, and it’s mindless while I’m working. There is a few problems with it (there is so much fat-shaming in it and some other things), but overall, I see why people consider it a classic. I also got my Disney on again with rewatches of some of my beloveds: Tangled, Princess and the Frog, and Hercules. All of them were amazing, and brought the happy feels. I also watched Ralph Breaks the Internet, which I was really just watching for the princess scene, AND I SHOCKED MYSELF BY ACTUALLY LIKING IT. I did not enjoy the first one, but this one was fantastic – the characterization improvements, the setting, the writing, the incredible Disney moments. I really really enjoyed.

📌 I casually mentioned my newfound love of Disney pins, and it got intense this month. My quarantine brain craves the mindlessness of looking at pretty Disney Princess pins, and it lives for it. I definitely succeeded in that this month – and bought way too many, haha. I had to buy a corkboard for it (in the shape of Walk Disney World castle, ofc), and if you follow us on Insta, you’ll be seeing a lot of #pinmail coming in the Stories.

• More Happy Than Not — Adam Silvera
• History is All You Left Me  — Adam Silvera
• The Winter Duke — Claire Eliza Bartlett
• Girl, Serpent, Thorn — Melissa Bashardoust
• Earth to Charlie  — Justin Olson

• Ziggy, Stardust and Me — James Brandon
• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them  — Junauda Petrus
• Cinderella is Dead — Kalynn Bayron
• The Best at It — Maulik Pancholy
• Mooncakes  — Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu

June is pride month, so I will be trying to read as many LGBTQIA+ books that I can from my TBR. I might have to sneak in a few ARCs for July that I haven’t gotten to yet, but I will be trying to read almost exclusively books that fall in the LGBTQIA+ spectrum to celebrate the month. I’m so excited for a lot of these – but Girl, Serpent, Thorn and The Winter Duke are definitely my most anticipated reads for the month.

I will probably be adding more as the month goes on, but these are the ones I know I will be taking on this month – I definitely want to try to see if I can get some of the sexualities’ rep that I might be missing in these reads.

What do you think? What books did you read last month? Did we share any of the same?