Reading Update | May 2026 Week 4 | #booktube #readingupdate #bookreview

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Hi, happy Monday. Welcome to my Sunday reading report, but on Monday, where we talk about the progress of the books that I've been reading this week.

[00:00:08]So, I've been at a music festival for the past 5 days. And the bad news is it rained for the entire time. The good news is it rained for the entire time, so I still got my reading done. The first book I finished this week was volume seven of the Emma M Lion series by Beth Brower. As we all know, I adore this series. Volume seven was no different. The story is getting I don't know if I call it a little more high high stakes in terms of her relationships. I find that I'm wanting to know a little bit more about some of the external characters that we run into. I feel like I know a lot about Emma and I know some about some of the other characters, but since we've been together for so long, I kind of want to start knowing more. My favorite relationship is the one between her and the pirate. If you know, you know. That one is hilarious and I think not what it seems on the surface. So, next up, one of the things I've dug into a lot is Crime and Punishment by Theodore Dolveski. Pardon my Russian. This one I am reading as a sort of practice or intro into deep reading. So, you can see that I'm trying to annotate it as best I can. Uh, I will say I I think I was in a lot of books. The first part was a lot of intro. A lot of um themes were being introduced and I annotated a lot more in the first part and then for parts two, three and four sort of fell off just more here and there. I'm annotating this, reading it on my own, and then I'm also listening to Hardcore Literature, which I will link below, his interpretation and review and in-depth dive into this, and it's interesting.

[00:01:29]I'm enjoying it so far. I'm not sure if it's something I would come back to again and again and again like some people do, but I'm enjoying it. And then my last that I've been getting into, this was my spin from last week, and that is Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. I'm only about 75 pages into this one, but what I will say is that there are a lot of voices in this. So, so far we have Ebie as the main character, past well, we have several different forms of Ebie. We have past Ebie, middle Ebie, and current Ebie.

[00:01:55]Then, so three different timelines, and then we also have a couple other characters. So, I generally enjoy a book that has different timelines and weaves stories together from different perspectives and different um starting points. We will see how this goes. I think there's a couple characters whose perspectives I'm not sure I'm that interested in knowing based on how they've been presented in the story so far. We'll see as I get a little bit further into it. So, let me know what you've been reading this week down in the comments if there's anything that you recommend that I read or don't read.

[00:02:20]Otherwise, I will check in next week on Sunday this time with my progress on these books. Bye.