At long last, I am a college/uni graduate and fully vaccinated and looking forward to Doing Things again. (Not sure what Things, exactly, but I’ll figure it out.) 

Reading Challenges Check-In

Goodreads Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 33
• Current total: 132 / 200

Beat the Backlist Bingo

• Read this month: 6
• Current total: 48 / 52

Popsugar Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 7
• Current total: 41 / 50

Asian Readathon

@asianreadathon • #asianreadathon
Hosted by Cindy (@readwithcindy). You can combine challenges and read in any order;
however, EACH book you read should feature a character or author of a different Asian ethnicity.

✔	Read any book written by an Asian author	Bitter in the Mouth	Monica Truong	Vietnamese author & MC
✔	Read any book featuring an Asian protagonist	The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali	Sabina Khan	Desi author & Bengali MC
✔	Read any book written by an Asian author in your favorite genre → CONTEMPORARY	All of This Is True	Lygia Day Peñaflor	Filipinx author
✔	Read any nonfiction book written by an Asian author	Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning	Cathy Park Hong	Korean author; Asian-American focus
✔	Read any book written by an Asian author that’s not US-centric	A Snake Lies Waiting	Jin Yong	Chinese author & cast

State of the ARC

State of the ARC is a monthly meme created by Evelina @ Avalinah’s Books.

Acquired – 3

Welcome Home by Najwa Zebian	Netgalley	DNF
I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin	Netgalley	TBR
The Enneagram at Work by Jim McPartlin	Netgalley	DNF

Read – 3

Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood	★★☆☆☆
If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich	★★★✯☆
A Heart Divided by Jin Yong	★★★✯☆

Did Not Finish – 3

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros	[ review ]
Welcome Home by Najwa Zebian	[ review ]
The Enneagram at Work by Jim McPartlin	[ review ]

Remaining ARCs – 2

• Cazadora by Romina Garber
• I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin

Read This Month

Clicking on the titles below will take you to the book’s Goodreads page.
[ARC] indicates an advance review copy; [RC] indicates a post-release review copy.

5 Star Reads

• Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
• Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker (Seanan McGuire)

4.5 Star Reads

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
• How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
• Bitter in the Mouth by Monica Truong
• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

4 Star Reads

• Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
• What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
• Felicity by Mary Oliver
• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
• Polysecure by Jessica Fern
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

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Monthly Total:

33 read + 13 DNF
3.52 average rating

• What are the best/worst books you read this month?
• Which books, if any, are you hoping/planning to read next month?
• Did you participate in any reading challenges and/or readathons this month? Are you signed up for any next month?