Wyrd and Wonderful Plans!

It’s May 1st, which means that not only is it Beltane – it’s the start of Wyrd & Wonder! This is a month-long event where a bunch of bloggers share thoughts and reviews and rec lists of the fantastical – mostly focusing on books, but other media is welcome too!

To Be Written

This year, the theme is comfort zone, and because I’m a contrary creature, many of the posts I have planned are focused on the outside of the zone – like Adventures in Discomfort, a rec list featuring fantasy with disabled leads, Books That Challenged & Changed Me, and a list of reads spotlighting rare, and rarely-written-about, magical beasties. (Don’t have a clever name for that one yet!)

But I do intend to do a few properly cosy posts too – Fantastical Friends, reccing stories that feature best friends adventuring together, and a list of my own comfort reads (many of which are decidedly non-obvious choices for comfort). If I have the time and spoons, I’d love to put together a rec list of stories meant to be comforting for neurodivergent readers specifically…we’ll see.

And of course, my annual Coolest Magic Systems and Coolest Magical Abilities lists will have their place of honour – I’ve made these for each Wyrd & Wonder I’ve taken part in, and I have no intention of breaking tradition this year!

To Be Read

I have three May releases that need reviewing – and I’ve only finished reading one of them! LE GASP!

So I’ve gotta focus my reading on them for the moment…

…but I also have a lot of arcs to get through this month to be ready for June, which makes their reading and reviewing part of my Wyrd & Wonder activities too!

Nine books??? I can read nine books in a month – the question is, will my ADHD allow it to be THESE nine that I read??? An unanswerable question; we can only see what the future brings. At least I’ve already started most of these. They’re a pretty good mix of squarely inside my comfort zone, and squarely outside. Hopefully I can figure out something clever to say about the contrast.

In Conclusion

Will I get all of this done? Almost certainly not! But as the Finns say, hyvin suunniteltu on puoliksi tehty – well-planned is half-done, so a great plan seems like a great start.

Welcome to everyone participating, watching with popcorn, or following along. It’s going to be a good month!

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