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


🎭 SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS


💚 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 🤓

hallie bertling