January is over, so it's time to update y'all on how my reading and reviewing went at the beginning of the year. While I read 20 books in January, more than half of them were audiobooks, which I personally prefer to keep to just a third of my reading, but the last two weeks of work for me involved largely mindless email outreach, so I was able to listen to audiobooks while working, which really bumped up my books read numbers there at the end of the month. Being so audiobook heavy does mean that I deviated from my list more than I'd prefer to as well. So let's see where things stand now.
Reviewed
Read
Currently Reading
To Be Read
Reviewed
Wretched by Emily McIntire
Good Morning, I Love You, Violet by Shauna Shapiro
The Maiden and the Unseen by Jeanette Rose and Alexis Rune
There Are Dinosaurs in the Library by Ag Allen
Scarred by Emily McIntire
Wally Takes a Weather Walk by Bree Sunshine Smith
The Ghost of Christmas to Come by D.P. Conway
Is a Worry Worrying You by Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz
Daydreamer by Susie Tate
Twins With Love X2 by Mr. B's Books
Home for Christmas by D.P. Conway
There's a Yeti in My Tummy by Meredith Rusu
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Colorful Tales by Don Hansen
The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan
Rainbows, Unicorns & Triangles illustrated by Jem Milton
Killer House Party by Lily Anderson
Hope! More Than Wishful Thinking by Gina Prosch
Hooked by Emily McIntire
The Day I Had Bulldozer by Ashley Wall
Relentless by Tera Lynn Childs and Tracy Deebs
One Upon the Very First Christmas by Rory Feek
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Ralphy's Rules for Feelings by Talar Herculian Coursey and Riley Herculean Coursey
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Different Thinkers: ADHD by Katia Fredriksen PhD and Yael Rothman PhD
Nutcracked by Susan Adrian
Where's Rex by Michael Garland
How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn
The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus by Michael Albanese and Wynn Everett-Albanese
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Rumi: Poet of Joy and Love by Rashin Kheiriyeh
Firefax by Amelia Vergara
Bentley's Fantabulous Idea by Miki Taylor
I'll Be Home For Mischief by Jacqueline Frost
The Cousins are Coming by Kay Jones
Read
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain by Richard Roberts (November '24)
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (November '24)
Crossing in Time by D.L. Orton (January '25)
Vandemere by Kimberley D. Tait (January '25)
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead (January '25)
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (January '25)
Pestilence by Laura Thalassa (January '25)
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (November '24)
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (January '25)
Amish Christmas Mystery by Samantha Price
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
From the Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley
The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike
Tabula Rasa by Paul Centeno
Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
Currently Reading
Russia's War on Everybody: And What It Means for You by Keir Giles (August '24) 35%
The Big Sugar by Mary Logue (August '24) 1%
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (August '24) pg 7
Lizzie by Edward Rand (August '24) 18%
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (August '24) pg 208
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (August '24) 22%
Hitler's Aristocrats by Susan Ronald (August '24) 37%
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (August '24) pg 66
Scarlet City by Rebekah Haas (August '24) pg 21
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (August '24) 17%
Credence by Penelope Douglas (August '24) 1%
You Like it Darker by Stephen King (August '24) 5%
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (August '24) Pg. 171
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (August '24) 6%
Dune by Frank Herbert (September '24) Pg. 15
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (September '24) 9%
The Magus by John Fowles (October '24) Pg. 162
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (October '24) 14%
Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas (October '24) Pg. 12
The Party by Natasha Preston (December '24) 20%
'Tis the Damn Season by Fiona Gibson (December '24) 41%
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (January '25) 21%
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (January '25) Pg. 80
Amish Vampires in Space by Kerry Nietz (January '25) 12%
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (January '25) 20%
To Be Read
Songlight by Moira Buffini (September '24)
The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche (September '24)
Crow Moon by Suzy Aspley (September '24)
The False Pawn by A.E. Asavi (September '24)
Camp Lanier by Sylvester Barzey (September '24)
Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong (September '24)
The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig (September '24)
Sunderworld, Vol. 1 by Ranson Riggs (September '24)
Lonely Places by Kate Anderson (October '24)
The Kiss of the Nightingale by Adi Denner (October '24)
Potions and Proposals by Kate Callaghan (October '24)
Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee (October '24)
Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood (October '24)
This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells (October '24)
My Husband the Murderer by Charlotte Barnes (November '24)
Killing Me Soufflé by Ellie Alexander (November '24)
A Tale Told by Traitors by Renee Dugan (November' 24)
A Story Spun in Scarlet by Renee Dugan (November '24)
Whirly World by Brandon Jones (November '24)
Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairytale by Mark Tullius and Evan Baughfman (November '24)
House of Marionne by J. Elle (November '24)
The Mirror by Nora Roberts (November '24)
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher (November '24)
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (December '24)
Xmas Break by J.E. Rowney (December '24)
Tis' the Season for Secrets by Kate Callaghan (December '24)
A Christmas Wish on Arran by Ellie Henderson (December '24)
Madrigals and Mayhem by Elizabeth Penney (December '24)
Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge by Kjersti Herland Johnsen (December '24)
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (December '24)
Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by Jason June (December '24)
Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters (December '24)
This is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley (December '24)
The Tanglewood Bookshop by Lilac Mills (December '24)
Snow is Falling by Sarah Bennett (December '24)
Quicksilver by Callie Hart (January '25)
Ex Marks the Spot by Gloria Chao (January '25)
Gate to Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki (January '25)
The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao (January '25)
A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson (January '25)
Star-Crossed Egg Tarts by Jennifer J. Chow (January '25)
The Rival by Emma Lord (January '25)
The Empress by Kristin Cast (January '25)
No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally (January '25)
The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard (January '25)
Sleep in Heavenly Pizza by Mindy Quigley (January '25)
At the start of the month, I was hoping to read 15 books in January (I surpassed that) which would give me my 9 book club books (except I joined four new book clubs in January, so now I have 13 of them) and 6 others from Netgalley under the best of circumstances. I did get five new books read from Netgalley...but four of them were new audiobooks, so they didn't actually help my review backlog, but they will ultimately help my review percentage. I was also hoping to post at least two reviews per day (one chapter book and one children's book) and while I didn't quite pull that off, I did post most than one review per day, which helped me to raise my Netgalley feedback percentage by one point, but that's something. I also made a dent in my backlog reviews because I wrote 29 chapter book reviews in January (although they're not all posted yet, but I've got a solid start for February's reviews now). In fact, my only goal for the new year that I didn't at least partially accomplish in January was doing all my weekly memes and returning visits. I'll work on that. Hopefully I can maintain this momentum into February. - Katie
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