 this is Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be doing my May wrap up talking about the books that I read in the month of May. So this month I read a total of five books which I'm not happy with but it is what it is. I wish I read more. A lot going on this month and honestly like I just wasn't in the reading mood. I wanted to be but I wasn't so my books let's get into it. First thing I read was actually for school and that is The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Well this is a play actually but it's about basically this play takes this play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the time of the Salem witch trials. So this is about characters we follow. John Proctor, Abigail would describe this book I don't know but this is just a play about people being accused of witchcraft and what they did during those Salem witch trials to people who were accused and it's about characters and relationships and there's just so much there's some drama going on to say the least. Basically it was really interesting and like I'm into learning but all the witchy stuff so that part I found really interesting. This did it wasn't it didn't blow me away but it didn't like disappoint me it was just kind of what it was and I was like okay it was cool. My favorite characters were John Proctor and Abigail. Abigail was obviously very twisted she had her own agenda for things she's twisted things she she was very manipulative and yeah but I've done a lot of work for this for school so like me talking about it out loud and like to camera it's like what the hell like I wrote an essay on this like I don't want to talk about it but I ended up giving this book 3.5 out of 5 stars. I did like it but it's not like my favorite thing ever. Like I understand why people love it but I also understand why people don't like it at all. Next up is a reread so I reread it she felt like feeling nothing by R.H. Sin. I was in a mood for his poetry and like I don't have anymore like because I've read everything he's published but like not the stuff he published on Amazon on his own but anyways this is more for like after relationship ends and you need some kind of like support and guidance this is what kind of I would say this one is more centered around like the end of relationship and breakups. I have my the first time I read this I did like it but I didn't think it matched up to his other collections and I just thought like his shorter works don't always impress me because like this is one of his shorter collections. I reread though I did like it I bumped it up 0.25 more than the last time so I ended up giving this one a 3.75 out of 5. I love his work at this collection was better than the first time I read it so yeah I think if you are going through something like that or you are in the mood for some poetry this is a good one check out if you feel like it. Next up for another poetry collection I read Worlds of You by Bo Tabled. I tried to say the author's name I probably pronounced it wrong but I was sent this by the publisher so Andrews make me a publishing so thank you so much to them it was a little surprise and I really appreciate it. This is a really beautiful collection that just released and I loved this so much it's poetry and prose which I always like when there's prose in there as well. It was just such a pleasant surprise like I love the writing style and I really connected with the poems and it was just like overall like a very like solid collection that I was really impressed with. I want to read this author's other collection called Bloom I really want to check that one out but this was really great so if you have heard of this one or you see it around the bookstore it is a new release and I personally really enjoyed it. So yeah I gave this one four stars very surprisingly surprised by this one I just expected it to be okay but it was very very good actually. Next up here I read another book for school and that was 1984 by George Orwell. This one I chose like we had a list of books and then we can choose one of like the five and I ended up choosing this one because I already owned it. So if you don't know 1984 is basically is set in Oceana and it is about this guy named Winston and this society that he lives in it's monitored extremely monitored and there's the government in this book is called like Big Brother and they monitor everything you do and there's like the thought police so if you think a certain thing like the thought police is on you like tele screens everywhere there's helicopters you're constantly being like recorded it's very tough situation to be in and I ended up quite liking this one it's like a very interesting concept and something I haven't really considered before like at this capacity and this degree before but it was overall just very interesting like a very interesting story. Winston was like a very interesting character just to like analyze again like I've written like I'm writing like an essay slash paragraph on this coming up so like I when I think some of you guys can relate when you're talking about books for school you're like okay great cuz like I'm gonna have to write about it and sometimes the story dragged though like I felt like the romance plot and then like some backstory it's just like it just dragged and I was like come on sweetie let's go. Ending was very interesting and overall the story is something that I'm very excited to analyze and I made so many tabs because school so yeah I did enjoy this one I gave this one I'm still thinking of my reading but I think it's gonna be around like a 3.75 or so. Next up I read Wild Blue Wonder and this is by Carly Sorosciak I can never say this author's name I apologize it probably should look it up. I was sent this by HCC frenzy in exchange for an honest review I unfortunately did not even finish I didn't finish it I was about halfway through this one and I just couldn't do it. This is about like a summer camp and the family owns it and we follow our main character Quinn. She like falls in love with her best friend Dylan then there's like this accident that happens so you're kind of going between past and present. A new boy in town it's like a coming-of-age story of our main character Quinn and her going through some things so personally I just felt like a disconnect with this story I could not get into the writing or the characters or the plot which is really unfortunate because I requested it because the sound is so appealing to me because overall just like meh like the characters weren't anything special to me so I know a lot of people are really loving this one right now so it's really unfortunate like I was really sad that I didn't enjoy it as everybody else seems to but there were just some flaws for me there was just some awkward writing at some points and just some things I like some lines that I was like what the hell. Overall of course I appreciate being sent it but it personally just didn't jazz with me at all and I couldn't finish it I this is what I was reading most of the month because I was like you got to get your arc dead Julia but like I could do it so yeah I gave this like two stars it's probably like a 1.5 because I did DNF it but if you're interested in it still check it out read some reviews look into it because like I know more like the few people that haven't enjoyed it as of now there you guys have it those were the books that I read in the month of May let me know your thoughts in the comments down below and what you read I'll see you all very soon with a new video bye