Challenges and goals update: How did I do in May?

Well, another month gone. It was a fairly busy one but I don't think it showed as much in this blog. I was in charge of this month's Book Bloggers International event, for Canadian Book Bloggers, and boy that was fun but more time consuming than I expected and hence, as may have noticed I wasn't that active around here. I did however finish 10 books, and I want to catch up with reviews as soon as possible. Now let's see about those challenges

Diversifying 2015:

Of the 10 books I read 5 have POC authors with 4 of those books also haddiverse main characters. Only one of the books had an tertiary LGBTQ character.

Read Harder:

I only ticked off the "Guilty Pleasure" one with Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia, but I've already checked 13 items on this challenge, so I'm not stressed yet.

My goals:

Read at least 1 POC author per month: As I mentioned I read 5 POC authors this month with Black Milk by Elif Shafak, En el tiempo de las Mariposas by Julia Alvarez, Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz , The Emperor of all Maladies by , and Thorn by Intisar Khanani. This last one was an ARC and I shall be reviewing it soon.

Read at least 1 book in Spanish per month: Only 1 this month with En el Tiempo de las Mariposas.

Read one CanLit book per month: Bone & Bread, it was a beautiful book.

Read at least 1 book of nonfiction per month: The Emperor of all Maladies.

Finished series: I finished The Caster Chronicles with Beautiful Redemption.. I thought I had finished Magic 2.0 too but I think with the end of the third book that they might be some more coming our way.

Read more already owned books: Of the 10 books only 3 weren't mine. Once again I am happy with this part.

Read the picks of the month for each book club: For S&L we read The Sword of Rihannon by Leigh Brackett...it was ok. And for Hello Hemlock we read Bone & Bread.

So there you have it; that was my month in books. How was your?

What am I reading this month: May

Hello everyone! The weather is nice outside (finally) and this weekend I officially started reading on my terrace: Reading life is good. Let's take a look on what I'm planning to read during the month of May.

For my Diversifying 2015 challenge (you can sign up here) and reading more in Spanish goal: En el tiempo de las Mariposas (In the Time of the Butterflies) by Julia Alvarez

For the Sword and Laser Book Club, we will be reading The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett


For my "reading more CanLit" goal, the Hello Hemlock book club will be reading Bone and Bread.

On nonfiction, I am reading 2 books this month: Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood and  the Harem Within by Elif Shafak and The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Muckerjee.

I will finish the Beautiful Creatures series with Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and I will continue the Grisha Trilogy with Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo. They are also my picks for this month for the Once Upon a Time Challenge.

Out of those 6 books, I own 4 of them, so I am also working on my "reading more of the books I already own" goal. As you can see there is a lot of diversity in this month, both in authors and subjects.

 

As always, this is not a definitive list, it might change (and grow) as the month passes by

What are you reading this month? Let me know in the comments and have a nice week.