I never posted my reading stats for April, mostly because I didn’t read more than two books that month, so I didn’t feel like there was a point to it. In May, however, my lust for reading came back with a vengeance. The monthly total for May ended up forty books, and I don’t know about you, but I think that’s quite a lot of them. True, May was also a month for YA and kiddie lit, which meant that a lot of those forty books were quite short, but all the same! It’s a personal record.

I have all of June off (actually, that’s not quite true—I go back to work on the 30th), which is going to leave me with a ton of time for reading. In fact, I went to the library today and picked up fourteen books (seven of which I have now finished) for some summer reading, and I’ve got a parcel of twelve books due to arrive in the post sometime next week. Not to mention all the books already on my TBR shelves, of course.

May books:

58. Rockabilly; Josefin Ekman, B
59. 102 Minutes: The Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers; Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn, B
60. I Am America (And So Can You!); Stephen Colbert, B
61. My War: Killing Time in Iraq; Colby Buzzell, B
62. Hästen från Porten; Carina Burman, B
63. Atonement; Ian McEwan, C
64. Kometen kommer; Tove Jansson, B
65. Bögslungan; Per Alexandersson, C
66. KÃ¥rnulf Was Here; Josefine Adolfsson, B
67. Allting som är trevligt är bra för magen; Tove Jansson, C
68. Bananflugornas herre; Fredrik Eklund, C
69. Does My Head Look Big in This?; Randa Abdel-Fattah, C
70. Drakvinter; Elvira Birgitta Holm, D
71. Ior och hästarna; Renata Wrede, C
72. Lugn för dej, Gelika; Olga Wikström, D
73. Marsmädchen; Tamara Bach, B
74. Trollkarlens hatt; Tove Jansson, A
75. Farlig midsommar; Tove Jansson, A
76. Trollvinter; Tove Jansson, C
77. Tjuvlyssnat; Damon Rasti & Gloria Hedman, B
78. Det osynliga barnet; Tove Jansson, C
79. Pappan och havet; Tove Jansson, C
80. Den som inte tar bort luddet ska dö; David Batra (not reviewed)
81. Sent i november; Tove Jansson, C
82. Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek; Gareth Roberts, C
83. Daddy-Long-Legs; Jean Webster, B
84. Dear Enemy; Jean Webster (not reviewed)
85. Knappt lovlig; Katarina von Bredow (not reviewed)
86. Strong Poison; Dorothy L Sayers, B
87. Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned; Stephen Cole, B
88. Heart of Darkness; Joseph Conrad, C
89. Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride; Helen Halstead, D
90. Språket; Lars-Gunnar Andersson & Anna Lena Ringarp (not reviewed)
91. Persepolis: volume 1; Marjane Satrapi (not reviewed)
92. Persepolis: volume 2; Marjane Satrapi (not reviewed)
93. Persepolis: volume 3; Marjane Satrapi (not reviewed)
94. Persepolis: volume 4; Marjane Satrapi (not reviewed)
95. Bögjävlar; Stefan Ingvarsson (ed.) (not reviewed)
96. Han sa ja!; Bo R Holmberg (not reviewed)
97. Älskar han mig?; Bo R Holmberg (not reviewed)

Challenge stats:

• A-Z Reading Challenge: 39/52
• Back to History: 5/12
• Decades ’08: 8/8 required (11/30 planned)
• First in a Series: 6/12
• Here Be Dragons: 2/4
• Russian Reading Challenge: 0/4
• To Be Read Challenge: 2/12