MONTHLY RECAP • Love in May (May 2017)

May, don’t go! I loved you so much!

I can’t believe May is over! Where did the month go? Can we go back to the beginning of the month or to my birthday please?

In May —

• I celebrated my birthday!

MY BFF WAS FINALLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MY BIRTHDAY! After spending yeaaarrrs away from each other, we got to celebrate my birthday together and what a joy it was! I hung out with a friend earlier in the day for fish tacos + comic hunting, and then I met up with my BFF for Korean BBQ + book hunting. A+++++ outings.

Birthday dinner!!! 😍 pic.twitter.com/d6Xdo8GFoo

— Cee ✨🔮 (@tnhcee) May 19, 2017

• I bought too many things.

Oh my god, I don’t even want to look at how much I spent this month because…it was a lot. Comics, clothes, a book case, a dvd. With my hours being cut, I shouldn’t but goddamn these sales.

• This month was full of good book recommending conversations. 

It brings so much joy when I have convinced somebody to buy a book! I sold a bunch of copies of A Darker Shade of Magic and Three Dark Crowns. A customer asked me when I usually work so she can come back for more recommendations. I was honestly happy crying on the inside. A teen girl last week had came in and thanked me for recommending her Three Dark Crowns because she loveeeddd it. YAS.

• Image Comics has started to love me. 

I’ve just been receiving some awesome things in my email from them, and I’m so excited about it!! I’ve made it, guys!!

BOUGHT

• More Than This by Patrick Ness (HC)
• Plutona by Emi Lenox
• DC Bombshells Vol. 1-3 by Marguerite Bennett
• Black Panther: A Nation Under Out Feet Book One by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Saga Vol. 7 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
• Ms. Marvel Vol. 5: Super Famous by G. Willow Wilson, Takeshi Miyazawa, Adrian Alphona, & Nico Leon
• Batman Detectives Rebirth Vol. 1: Rise of the Batmen
• The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 4: Rising Action
• Black Magick • Vol. 1: Awakening by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott
• Black Canary • Vol. 2: New Star Killer by Brenden Fletcher, Sandy Jarrell, & Annie Wu
• Gotham Academy • Vol. 3: Yearbook by Brenden Fletcher, Dustin Nguyen, Derek Fridolfs, & Rafael Albuquerque

FOR REVIEW

• Shattered Warriors by Sharon Shinn and Molly Knox Osterstag
• Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Ready to Fall by Marcella Pixley
• Kids Like Us by Hilary Reyl
• My New Crush Gave to Me by Shani Petroff
• Devil in Ohio by Daria Polatin
• A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor
• The Arsonist by Stephanie Oakes
• The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente
• All the Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler

Thank you for the books, Tor Books, First Second, Penguin, Quirk Books, Random House, and Wunderkind PR.

FROM TRADES

• Release by Patrick Ness (ARC)
• Harry Potter Illustrated #1 + #2

Thank Rebecca and TJ!

COMICS

Red Hood and the Outlaws • Volume 1: Dark Trinity

FICTION

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

YOUNG ADULT

Words in Deep Blue

REVIEWS

• Beware of the Spill Zone (Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld & Alex Puvilland)
• Up, Up, and Meh (And We’re Off by Dana Schwartz)
• We Will Fight Together (Shattered Warrior by Sharon Shinn and Molly Knox Ostertag)
• Dress For Your Destiny (The Fashion Committee by Susan Juby)
• The Sand Knows (The Sand Warrior: 5 Worlds #1) by Mark Siegel

DISCUSSIONS

• TOO MUCH TBR • May 2017
• SINCERELY, CEE • A letter from yours truly to Katrina Leno & Everything All At Once
• HOLY, MOTHER COVER! • Changes in The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
• May 18th • The Best Day of The Year
• May 2017 Graphic Novel Releases To Look Out For

Read, read, read. Write, write, write. Comics, comics, comics. 

As usual.

How was your May? Was it a great month for you? Anything you’re looking forward to in April like books or events?