May 2025 Wrap-Up & June Plans

Happy June, y’all! Can you believe we are entering the sixth month of the year already? Or is it so soon? I’m not sure. Some days, time seems to take forever to pass, while on other days, time seems to be speeding by. How was your May? What are your plans for June? Let’s look at my May 2025 wrap-up to see how my May was.

May 2025 Reading Wrap-Up & June TBR

Let’s flashback to my April 2025 Wrap-Up for a glimpse at what I planned to read in May.

• Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau
• Death on the Island by Eliza Reid
• You Started It by Jackie Khalilieh

Books Read in May 2025

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It’s another month with a completed TBR, so I should celebrate. I also knocked off a couple of books from my Spring TBR, which you can find here. Guess what? I even started reading my planned June TBR, so I didn’t include it below.

My favorite read in May? I read three that I rated 4.5 stars, so it varies from day to day. What three books did I rate so highly? Death on the Island, You Started It, and Everything’s Coming Up Rosie. Two of them are contemporaries that are sold as romances, and the other is a mystery. You can’t go wrong with any of them.

On another positive note, I didn’t have any DNFs in May, though there was one that I came close to putting down.

June TBR

I have a few ARCs to read this month, so my TBR is pretty short! I hope to read some of the books I own this month to help reduce the books on my physical TBR.

• A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais
• The Ripple Effect by Maggie North

May Blog Wrap-Up & June Plans

In April, I wrote and published 10 posts. I stumbled a bit with my goals and planning for posts. There were weekly reviews, and the same with Top Ten Tuesday posts. My monthly wrap-up and TBR shelf clean-up were also there.

My list of 10 Canadian authors was the most popular post of the 10 I published. In July 2024, I wrote a post about the app Too Good To Go, which was also my most popular post overall in May.

I hope to be better in June. There will be five reviews and four TTT posts. I’ve also got a cookbook review in the works. If only the weather would cooperate, I could try out the recipes. In case you can’t tell, it’s a grilling cookbook. And cold, damp weather is not what I want to grill in.

Personal Stuff

Ultimately, May wasn’t as chaotic as it could have been. Though I think I broke my husband when I gave him his anniversary gift. How did I break a grown man? I got tickets to see his favorite musical artist for July. I don’t think he thought he would ever get to see Weird Al in person! I can’t wait for the show in July either. Thankfully, the concert coincides with the time we had already booked.

I’m excited because I made it to book club again this month. It was fun, as we were at the bookstore instead of the library. My schedule doesn’t allow me to make it to book club that frequently (darn early starts at work), so every chance I get to go is a good one.

What chaos does June hold? Honestly, not a lot. My daughter has a couple of appointments, and I do too. Other than that, the only stress in the house will be at the end of the month as the end of the school year approaches. Does anyone know how to motivate a 17-year-old to not lie around all summer doing next to nothing? We are trying to get her to apply for a job or even volunteer positions. She keeps saying she will, but then does nothing. I’m tempted to start turning the Wi-Fi off when I leave for work and turn it back on when I get home. Then she’ll have an “old-fashioned” summer break!

That’s my May in a nutshell. How was your May? What was your favorite read? What are your plans for June?

Are you looking for some more ideas to read? Check out my other monthly reading wrap-ups.