Wrap-Up Magnificent May 2023

Last updated on January 9th, 2024 at 10:35 am

Magnificent May 2023 – May goes, and June comes up, as does my monthly wrap-up. It was a month’s eARC reads, and I’m proud of myself for getting into so many great books!
But I also re-played an Indie game, which means a lot to me as I played it in the past and had to write about it.

For most of them, reviews are coming pretty soon. I enjoyed those listed books and can’t wait to continue with my to-be-read ARC list!
Have you ever heard of ARCs before? I can’t decline. I wouldn’t know about them if not for the Bookstagram community.

So, what have I read in May? Wrap-Up

I’m incredibly proud of this list because, besides Twisted Love, all of them were eARC ready, provided by NetGalley, book sirens, or their author.
Until Bookstagram, I hadn’t even realized there were Indies between books, but now I know and support them all.

• [ARC-Review] Diamond City by Astrid Cole
• Twisted Love
• [ARC-Review] Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole
• [ARC-Review] A Mortal Queen: Stolen by S. P. Woods
• [ARC-Review] Fluttering Cruelty by Ripley Sinclair

..watched?

Queen Charlotte was fun to watch, but I enjoy the Bridgerton series. Fast & Furious is always fun to watch. The 6th movie isn’t one of my favorites, but lots of fun. Dr. Strange is one of those. I wasn’t interested in protecting on purpose, but sometimes I still watch.

• Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
• Fast & Furious 6
• Operation: 12 strong
• Sicario
• Dr. Strange
• Allegiant

..and played?

Stardew Valley and Plague Inc. Evolved are some games; I played them way in the past but had to play them again. Both of them are fun, especially on the SteamDeck.
Do Not Feed The Monkeys is pretty fun. I discovered it a couple of months back and had to play it.

• Stardew Valley
• Do Not Feed The Monkeys
• Plague Inc. Evolved

Recently added

This section goes surprisingly empty for May, but maybe June gets me to add some. I know; I will go for a physical copy of Spark of the Everflame and Diamond City.

Challenges – update

As in the past months, I could update some of my challenges with my reads and plays. I’m not much with my watches this time, but that list is good to go already.

ABC – Challenge: Movies & TV still the list of my watched movies and TV shows is leading (17), but it’s very close as I read five books (14), played three games (9), and watched 1 TV series.
#23for2023 Challenge: There is nothing new on this challenge, as I mainly read whatever I get between my fingers instead of what I wrote on my list. I should change that, I guess.
Goodreads tells me I already read 17 of 23 books for the yearly challenge this year, which gets me quite ahead with eight books (74%). I can’t decline. I’m proud of this one.

I still had some reviews left to do as it continued, but I kept it up with my most recent reads! I also decided to give a sneak peek of the review on, e.g., Goodreads, but the full version stays on the blog. We’ll see; maybe I’ll change that soon enough.

Do you know any of those? Have you read any of those or even something different? What’s on your list of recent plays, watches, and reads? Let me know in the comments!

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