May Wrap-Up & June Reading Plans #WyrdAndWonder #MakeYourMythTaker Readathon

Credits: Flaming phoenix by Sujono Sujono | Decorative phoenix by Tanantachai Sirival

May was a fantastic month! I participated in Wyrd and Wonder for the first time and I had a blast. 😀 It reminded me how much I love fantasy, a genre that I’ve been neglecting a lot in the last few years.

I want to thank the wonderful W&W hosts:  imyril, Lisa and Jorie that did a fantastic job at hosting the event. You did a fantastic job! 😀 Also, I’m once again in awe of the amazing SFF blogging community that always manage to write very interesting reviews, discussion posts and tags. You are all wonderful and while I couldn’t check out all the posts, I had a great time perusing as much as I could and I discovered new fantastic blogs!

May was also very busy because I traveled quite a bit in South Korea. I visited Busan, Jeonju, Gwanju and Boseong with a couple of friends. It was a breath of fresh air to leave Seoul for a while. I love Seoul but the current atmosphere is very tense and people tend to be a bit passive aggressive toward foreigners. It was very refreshing to visit other areas and to feel welcome for once! Here are a couple pictures of the wonderful Korean landscapes:

 

 

Anyway, I was very happy with the month of May and I hope June is going to be as good reading, blogging and travel-wise. I’m planning on visiting Jeju island and a couple of other cities in the countryside. My exchange is slowly coming to an end: I will come back to France in mid-July so I want to make the most of my remaining time in this country.

Books Read

 

 

• In The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard ★★★
• Meeting Me in The Future by Kameron Hurley ★★★★
• David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa ★★★
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow ★★★★★
• The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang ★★★★
• Clarkesworld #157 edited by Neil Clarke ★★★★
• Driftwood by Marie Brennan ★★★★ 1/2

Favorite Reads

 

 

I have been fangirling quite a bit over Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January in a couple of recent posts but I adored this book. It’s about a girl who can shape the world (or more accurately worlds) with her words. The writing style is superb and I was completely immersed in the story. It was my first 5 stars read of the year (not counting re-reads)!

Another surprising new favorite book was Marie Brennan’s Driftwood. I wasn’t aware of this book until I received an impromptu eARC on my Kindle, courtesy of the wonderful folks at Tachyon. This book is not coming out until August so I’ll have a review published closer to its release but I loved it! It’s about fragmented worlds drifting out toward their inevitable end in a mysterious place called Driftwood. I read this book in less than 24h while I was travelling and I couldn’t put it down!

Posts Recap

I’ve posted nine posts (including this one) this month! While it might not seem like a  lot compared to my fellow bloggers who have superpowers and manage to write a lot of interesting reviews and discussions post (I don’t know how you do it!), for me, it’s a lot more than usual so I’m very happy! I hope I can keep up this pace in the next few months. 🙂

• TBR and Wrap-Up Posts
  • Wyrd & Wonder TBR
  • May Wrap-Up and June Reading Plans
• Book Reviews
  • The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Tensorate #1)
  • The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang (Tensorate #2)
  • The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #2)
  • Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett
  • In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
• Miscellaneous
  • Adventure Update | Wyrd and Wonder 2020
  • Get To Know the Fantasy Reader Tag

 

June Reading Plans

In June, I would like to participate in #MakeYourMythTaker Readathon hosted by A Frolic Through Fiction and Charlotte since it sounds like a lot of fun! I will make a separate post in a few days explaining the different challenges and the books I would like to read to complete them. 🙂

However, I would also like to read a couple of other things that don’t fit any of the challenges. My tentative TBR is as follow:

 

 

I also bought a lot of books recently so I might shuffle this tentative TBR to include some of them. 🙂

I know a lot of you participated in Wyrd & Wonder, did you manage to read a lot of fantasy books this month? If so, what was your favorite W&W read? 😀