may = be me reading books! and then some! :D
merry happy birthmonth to me!! :D
while i’m celebrating with an ELF-tastic breakfast pile o’ carbs and creating my own stories, i’m also posting every monday morning’s weekly reading book review for you— complete with a list of titles mentioned + their links to bookshop.org where you can learn more (and collect the ones that sound good for YOU) about each title!
all my maple*syrup best,
*hallie :D
✨📖 weekly reading book review may 2026: episode one!! 📖✨
💜 here’s what we read this week:
🌟 A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by deborah harkness
🔑 THE MYSTERY OF LOCKED ROOMS by lindsay currie
💚 LIZARD BOY 2: THE MOST PERFECT SUMMER EVER by jonathan hill
first book (although you can still enjoy this one out of order if you have to!) available here: TALES OF A SEVENTH GRADE LIZARD BOY :)
🥳 watched (again again again again):
🎬 ASTEROID CITY (wes andersson, 2023)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14230388/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
👉🏽 convinced scarlett’s lipstick is NUKE ORANGE a lá soman chainani‘s YOUNG WORLD that comes out ToMorrOW!!! 😆❤️🔥🧡🩷❤️🔥🧡🩷❤️🔥
📚 currently reading:
🖤 THE HONJIN MURDERS by seishi yokomizo (1973)
📚 mmmmiiiiiight read &/or paint from next:
💚 NO BILLBOARD GOSPEL by emma galloway stephens
❤️ A LOVER’S COMPLAINT by wm shakespeare
👻 THIN PLACES by kay chronister
💜 THE SECRET LIBRARY by kekla magoon
🧡 MYSTERY ON MACAW MOUNTAIN by maria josé fitzgerald
💕 THE NOTES by catherine con morse
what stories are you loving right now?!
🥰🌟🥳📖🖋️🎤🎬🎨🎭🎹💘
off to ink & paint & mail some birthday month #happymail to the crayon box!!
💖xo,
*hallie 🤓