May 2022 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

The quick-and-dirty version of this post is: I read or listened to 24, with 3,878+ pages or the equivalent (there was an Audible Original there, so the page equivalent would be 250-350 more), and the average rating was 3.58. Not a spectacular month, but a good one. Quicker-and-dirtier version: I read Don’t Know Tough this month, along with a few other (mostly good) things—it was a good month.

It was also an ambitious month on the writing front—hopefully, that continues.

Enough with the preamble, here’s what happened here in May:
Books/Novels/Novellas Read/Listened to

		Still Deciding

Still Reading

Ratings

	1		1
	2		0
	5		0
	9		0
	6
		Average =	3.58

TBR Stacks/Piles/Heaps

Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 19
Self-/Independent Published: 5

Review-ish Things Posted

• Face to Face with God: A Biblical Theology of Christ as Priest and Mediator by T. Desmond Alexander: A Biblical Theology of Hebrews
• Of Claws and Fangs by Faith Hunter: Tales of Vampires, Weres, Witches, Skinwalkers and More
• The Knave of Secrets by Alex Livingston: One night in Valtiffe and the Tough Guys Tumble
• Catch-Up Quick Takes: A Few Words on a Few Books
• The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd: Will Take You Somewhere You Didn’t Expect
• Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts (Audiobook) by Kate Racculia, Lauren Fortgang: The Westing Game for Grownups (with a Supernatural Twist)
• Funny Farm (Audiobook) by Laurie Zaleski, Erin Moon: A Woman Rescues Herself, Her Kids, and a Big Bunch of Animals
• Robert B. Parker’s Revenge Tour by Mike Lupica: A Tale of Two Exes
• A Spoilery Rant about Robert B. Parker’s Revenge Tour by Mike Lupica
• Right Behind Her by Melinda Leigh: Bodies, Secrets, Memories and More are Unburied
• Repentance: Turning from Sin to God by Thomas Boston: Calls to Faith and Repentance as Clear Today As They Were 300 Years Ago
• Conjured Defense by J.C. Jackson: A Solid Step Forward for this Series
• Lifesign (Audiobook) by Carl Goodman, Louise Brealey: A Gripping Procedural with a Little Something Extra
• This is Going to Hurt (Audiobook) by Adam Kay: It’s Funny Because It’s True. Also, Dispiriting Because It’s True
• Heroic Hearts ed. by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes: Street-wise Herculeses to fight the rising odds
• The Doctrine of Scripture: An Introduction by Mark D. Thompson: A Strong and Helpful Entry this Series
• The Traitor’s Heir by Anna Thayer: He’s Gonna Have to Serve Somebody
• Nothing to See Here (Audiobook) by Kevin Wilson, Marin Ireland: This Family Drama Hits All the Right Notes
• Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor: Glory Days, Well, They’ll Pass You By…
• Augustine of Hippo: His Life and Impact by Bradley G. Green: A Protestant Introduction to this Important Father
• Jacked edited by Vern Smith: A Dynamite Collection of Short Crime Fiction

Other Things I Wrote
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th), I also wrote:

• Highlights from April: Lines Worth Repeating
• Book Blogger Hop: Negative Reviews?
• What Makes a Good Book: A Reader’s Perspective (Part 1)
• Spelling the Month in Books: May
• Book Blogger Hop: DWR? (Drinking While Reading)
• Towel Day ’22: Do You Know Where Your Towel Is?
• Towel Day ’22: Some of my favorite Adams lines . . .
• The Last Book I… Book Tag
• 20 Books of Summer 2022: Kickoff
• Book Blogger Hop: Reading on a Kindle App?
• WWW Wednesday for May 4, May 10, May 18, and May 25, 2028.
• The Friday 56 for 5/6/22 (The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd), 5/13/22 (Right Behind Her by Melinda Leigh), and 5/20/22 (Heroic Hearts edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes).

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?