Happy Top Ten (and More) Tuesday! Here, you will find a list of all the movies I watched and books I finished in May.
MOVIES
Letterboxd allows for half star ratings for movies, but I'm sticking to whole instead of sliced mushrooms. The heart indicates when the movie had the "it" factor, that something special that makes it a favorite of mine. It's probably one I would re-watch. It does not have to earn five mushrooms in order to earn a heart. There could be plot holes, etc., but if it was still immensely enjoyable, it earned a heart.
The number on the left is the date in May when I watched the movie. Most of the time, I watch half a movie in the morning while having breakfast and the second half in the afternoon while having lunch. Hallmark movies, which are mostly what I watch, are all less than 90 minutes long without commercials, so via DVR, I can easily watch one per day most days.
1 Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans (2024)🍄🍄🍄🍄
3 Branching Out (2024)🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
6 Darrow and Darrow (2017)🍄🍄🍄🍄
7 Darrow and Darrow: In the Key of Murder (2018)🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
9 Darrow and Darrow: Body of Evidence (2018) 🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
10 Darrow and Darrow: Witness to a Murder (2019) 🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
13 A Whitewater Romance (2024) 🍄🍄🍄
14 Flip that Romance (2019) 🍄🍄🍄🍄
16 Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead (2019)🍄🍄🍄🍄
16 Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds (2020)🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
17 Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death (2020)🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
20 Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home (2024) 🍄🍄🍄
21 Everything Puppies (2024) 🍄
23 Dear Prudence (2008)🍄🍄🍄
24 A Royal Runaway Romance (2022)🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
All of these are Hallmark movies and as usual, some are 2024 premieres while others are from years past. With May being National Mystery Month (and National Photography Month) I decided to catch up on a couple of the older mystery series. Here are the links to the two series I reviewed in May:
My favorite movie in May was Branching Out, a Hallmark 2024 premiere. It wasn't perfect, but I enjoyed it enough to mark it as a favorite. I don't typically enjoy the royal movies too much, but A Royal Runaway Romance was good. It was a fun road trip movie that I watched just before Memorial Day weekend. Again, not perfect, but very enjoyable.
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans was a Hallmark mystery premiere. It was fun, but it isn't my favorite in the series. They mystery aspect wasn't as strong as I would have liked it to be. However, the setting was highly entertaining.
Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home was another Hallmark mystery premiere. It's one of my least favorites of the year (with Crime Time: Freefall being my least favorite). Coming Home is too serious for me, while Crime Time is too comical. I prefer something in between.
BOOKS
I don't give hearts for books like I do for movies because I rarely re-read books. When I do, it's usually because I haven't reviewed it yet and I need to refresh my memory before I do or because it's part of a book club and I need to refresh my memory for that reason. Otherwise, there are too many books that I want to read and it would take too much time to re-read them. Also, many of them are part of a series, of which I have so much catching up to do.
Here's what I read and listened to in May. Reviews are linked to the titles. Some are full reviews, while others are brief ones on my Sunday Posts.
📱 = e-book
🎧 = audiobook
📖 = physical book
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Can't complain when every book I finished in May received at least four mushrooms!
A busy month. I hope you have a fabulous June!
ReplyDeleteThank you! You too! :)
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