May 2021 reading recap: Is this real?

Months of being behind needed pace, months of saying the next was going to see me make up my deficit, and I only finished 3 books this month. Wow.

To be fair, I got very far in a large number of books. This past month saw a big upheaval in the regular schmegular, the status quo of my home life with a reorganizing of space, a reshuffling of reality, and a general sense of big busyness. So yes, I do understand why I only finished three books - because I know how much I actually read and how many books are just on the precipice of completion. 

I VERY MUCH expect to have a rush of books in the next few days.  Then again, I've said that before. But realistically, that's something that has to get done. I need to free up space on my devices and move on to the next books asap. I have technical specs to update and, additionally, I need to have a sense of reading lightness to feel emboldened to request the next 50.

Here are the books I finished in the month of May.

1. The Architecture Lover's Guide to Paris (Ruby Boukabou)
2. The Unfinished Land (Greg Bear)
3. Attack on Titan, Vol. 32 (Hajime Isayama)

Five months gone and I'm not anywhere near the 63 I'd need to be on pace (150 for the year). I've just finished 46 books. To be on pace, by the end of the month I need to finish about 76. So 30 books this month. I'd say that's not undoable, but that might be a bit of a challenge. I don't have any manga in sight, but I am seeing that a good handful of the books I'd requested ended up being 350 pages or less each, so that's a plus?

Sigh. We'll see. Hopefully it gets done. If not, it doesn't. Despite how many newly vaccinated Americans feel, the world is still in a pandemic. And semi-lockdown mindset is real.