Empty Shelf Challenge: May 2014

Quick recap: Jon Acuff introduced the #EmptyShelf challenge in December. It’s pretty basic: starting December 23rd, you empty one shelf of a bookcase in your house completely. Hence, “Empty Shelf.” Then, through the entire next year, you fill that shelf with the books that you read.

To read what I read in January, click on over here. For February, click on over here. March, here. And for April, click here.

May does not have an actual shelf – we moved this past weekend, so hopefully I can get my books back in order for June’s update. We’ll see.

Anyway – here is the list of what I read in May, for a grand total of two (2!) books:

30.) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (re-reading, for probably the third time)

31.) The Conditions of Love by Dale Kushner (purchased at the UW Writer’s Institute and signed by the author herself)

I chose “Hotel” to read on a business trip that I took in mid-May for a couple of reasons:

1. It hadn’t been snagged in the great #bookboxup.
2. When I am stressed, I always reach for “comfort books” – kind of like comfort food. There is just something about picking up an old friend and knowing that it is going to be a wonderful distraction, not leaving one more part of life to chance.

What about you? Do you re-read your favorites when you are going through a rough patch?