#january wrapup

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ JANUARY WRAPUP ✨

QOTD: What was your fave read of January?

Mine was Something Extraordinary by Alexis Hall but holy hell did I have an incredible reading month! I’m pretty sure this is the most 5 stars I’ve ever had in one month.

Total books finished: 30

DNF’s: 5

Pages read: 7,796

Hours listened: 69.93

Currently reading:

📖 Fate of the Five by Niamh Rose (17%)

🎧 Foxglove by Adalyn Grace (66%)

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-Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

-Something Extraordinary by Alexis Hall

-Love Unleashed by Melanie Saward

-A Grim and Sunken Vow by Ashley Shuttleworth

-A Wild and Ruined Song by Ashley Shuttleworth

-Belladonna by Adalyn Grace (reread) 🎧

-A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (reread) 🎧

-A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (reread) 🎧

-Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

-A Good Kind of Trouble by Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-Cursed Cocktails by SL Rowland

-A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth (reread) 🎧

-Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi

-Les Normaux by Janine Janssen and S Al Sabado

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-A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth (reread) 🎧

-Manga Classics: Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 - A Study in Scarlet by Julien Choy (and Arthur Conan Doyle)

-Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

-Faebound by Saara El-Arifi (reread) 🎧

-Diversions: Lights Anthology by Romance Writers of Australia

-Sapling’s Orbit by Spencer Rose

-Sapling’s Aurora by Spencer Rose

-Sapling’s Rising by Spencer Rose

-The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

-Pride by Samantha Ryan

-Sapling’s Depths by Spencer Rose

-Swordheart by T Kingfisher

⭐️⭐️⭐️

-I Think They Love You by Julian Winters

-Fall in Love, You False Angels Vol. 1 by Coco Uzuki

Unrated

-Finding Ecstasy by Norman Fox

DNF

-The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre by Darcy Ash* (55%)

-Wolf-Blessed by John O’Donnell (24%)

-In the Long Run by Haley Cass (29%)

-The Captive Prince by CS Pacat (31%)

-The Prince’s Heart by Ben Chalfin (14%)

[lizziethereader]

January 2020 wrapup 

January was a bit of a mixed bag - I read some really good stuff but I was also disappointed by some reads that I was expecting to love. 

favorites of the month: Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle, Afterparty by Daryl Gregory, and My Hear and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

nonfiction reads: 1 - The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry

classics: 1 - The Odyssey by Homer

poetry: Manchmal ein Traum, der nach Salz schmeckt by Ilse Tielsch

[slaughter-books]

Day 31: BFTbookchallenge: January Wrapup

My January, 2019 reading wrapup!! 😄💕

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January 2019 Wrap-Up

I'm going to start a new feature on my blog where I link my original posts for the month in an end of the month wrap-up.

Book recs:

Blacksad graphic novel - review

BrainLash Maximize Your Recovery From Mild Brain Injury by Gail L Denton - review

Non recs:

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Quotes:

1st from BrainLash

2nd from BrainLash

3rd from BrainLash

1st from On Chesil Beach

2nd from OCB

3rd from OCB

1st from Wonder Woman: Warbringer

2nd from WW:W

Writing:

I wrote a short story!

Library Hauls:

January 12th

Other Book Related Things:

2019 Goodreads Challenge

The coolest side table ever!

Silly/Not Book Related:

Singin' In the Rain

Rainbow Connection

Tiny Panther - A Parody of Elton John's Tiny Dancer

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📚☕️❄️January Reading Wrap Up❄️☕️📚

Stats:

Total Read - 5 books

Avg Rating - 4.6⭐️

Format Most Read - Physical books

Most Read Genre - Horror

DNF Count - 0

Books:

Title: Study For Obedience

Author: Sarah Bernstein

Format: Physical book

Genre: Literary Fiction

Rating: 5⭐️

Started: 12/27/23

Finished: 01/06/24

Title: Heartstopper Volume 5

Author: Alice Oseman

Format: Physical Book

Genre: Young Adult Queer Romance

Rating: 5⭐️

Started: 01/07/24

Finished: 01/08/24

Title: Open Heart, Open Mind

Author: Clara Hughes

Format: Physical book

Genre: Memoir

Rating: 3.5⭐️

Started: 01/10/24

Finished: 01/20/24

Title: And Then I Woke Up

Author: Malcolm Devlin

Format: Audiobook

Genre: SciFi Dystopian Horror

Rating: 5⭐️

Started: 01/23/24

Finished: 01/23/24

Title: What Moves The Dead

Author: T. Kingfisher

Format: Physical book

Genre: Gothic horror

Rating: 4.5⭐️

Started: 01/28/24

Finished: 01/29/24

Books Started:

Dead Romantics - Ashley Poston

It's OK That You're Not Okay - Megan Devine

Surviving To Drive - Guenther Steiner

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[thenovelescapes]

january 2017

Happy New Year! I rang 2017 in on a beach in Hawaii surrounded by my whole family and although it was lovely, it was just as anti-climactic as last year. (When I was by myself, sitting on the couch, watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets). I've spent NYE with friends, with family, and by myself. There's no sure-fire formula to having a good year, so no matter how you celebrated, I wish you all a 2017 filled with heath, happiness and hope.

- the television -

The first pop culture item I consumed in 2017 was Sports Night. I hadn't revisited the series since I first watched it a few years ago but it is just as delightful and charming as I remembered. (And the laugh track is just as disconcerting). I had downloaded the full series to my iPad to keep me company on my solo plane rides and it ended up being an excellent distraction from my raging fever and chills. (0 / 10 would NOT recommend). I watched seasons one and two this month.

Next, I revisited another favourite that I'd been meaning to rewatch for ages - The Good Wife. It was monumentally harder to watch some scenes, knowing what's lurking in season 5. Eli Gold erasing the voicemail nearly broke me. ("MY PLAN IS I LOVE YOU"). I became re-obsessed and blasted through five seasons in only a couple of weeks, plus/or minus the days I needed a break to recover from that death.

One Day at a Time is a new show that premiered on Netflix on (DATE). It stars Justina Machado as a Cuban-American veteran living with her son, daughter, and mother. (Information about how it's a reboot). This show has so much heart. Justina Machado has a smile that could light up an entire damn room, Elena's storyline made me cry approximately 178 times, and each episode deals so deftly with huge topics - veteran benefits, immigration & deportation, coming out, sexism, divorce and more. Watch it! The Series of Unfortunate Events also premiered on Netflix this month. Now, I hated the ASoUE film. Hated it. So, I had low expectations going into the series but I ended up loving it! (MORE)

This month in the never-ending saga of "Finding Television Shows My Parents Don't Hate": Broadchurch. I'd never seen an episode, but knew enough about it to determine that it'd be up their alley. Death and a mystery for my dad. A+ cinematography and beautiful seaside landscapes for my mom. Together, we managed to watch the first two seasons.

Finally, Sherlock. My feelings about season 4 are… complicated. The first episode was awful. It felt like it lasted four hours long, and not in a good way. Episodes 2 and 3 were much more interesting but I don’t know if I enjoyed them? I think I’d be just fine if season four was the last.

- the books -

The first book I read in 2017 was A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I bought the novel months and months ago but had been putting off reading it for various reasons. It was too long, it was too sad, etc. It was long, and sad was a massive understatement but it was also incredibly written and beautiful. I had to put it down multiple times because I was distraught and my nerves felt live wires, and it was probably not the best choice for a vacation read, but I could never put it down for long and powered through all 720 pages in four days. Next, I picked up How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly’s Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life by Heather Havrikesky because it’s new year resolution time and I need all the help I can get. Havrilesky is funny and informative and handles every question with compassion and wisdom.

The Sun is Also a Star is Nicola Yoon’s sophomore novel and it was every bit as charming and sweet as her debut. In it, Natasha, an African-American girl who is about to be deported back to Jamaica with her family, and Daniel, a Korean-American boy struggling against his parent’s expectations, collide over and over again during a whirlwind afternoon. Her first novel, Everything Everything is about to be a movie and the trailer looks delightful.   

- the movies -

I watched four movies in January. They were all terrible. The Big Short involves a lot of middle aged white men yelling about money. Autumn Dreams is an awful Hallmark Channel rom com with no life and actors with no chemistry. I confess I only half payed attention to Man Up but what I did see was over-the-top and featured Lake Bell doing an extremely bad British accent. The Meddler was marginally better than the others and Rose Byrne is always great but every time I look at Susan Sarandon now, I re-live her Twitter fight with Debra Messing and her utterly tone-deaf political comments.

- miscellaneous -

Podcasts, podcasts, podcasts! First, In the Dark. The first season of this podcast reveals how law enforcement mishandled one of the most notorious child abductions in the country - the abduction of Jacob Wetterling. It’s so interesting and the reporting is so detailed, I was enthralled and disturbed through every episode. Terrible, Thanks for Asking is a podcast about grief and love and life from Nora McInerny Purmort, who lost a baby to a miscarriage and her father and husband to cancer - all within six weeks of each other. I cry at least once an episode. Season 1 is complete and up on iTunes and other podcast platforms for your binge-listening pleasure.

I hope you all had a great start to the new year and as always, happy reading / watching / listening!

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What did everyone read in january?