December 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

More romance for me this month! We were also in the process of moving/buying a house, so I really couldn’t handle anything too intense.

• Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane – Read
• How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black – Read
• Here’s Looking At You by Mhairi McFarlane – Read
• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline – Read, review coming
• The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker – Read
• Master of One by Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett

Also read/reading:

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor – Reread
• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary – Read
• Wild at Heart by K.A. Tucker – Read
• A Princess for Christmas by Jenny Holiday – Read
• A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore – Read
• Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker – Read
• It’s Not Me, It’s You by Mhairi McFarlane – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 11
Books currently reading: 1

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of December = 331
Books added to TBR = 6
Books read/deleted from TBR = 2
Total on TBR now = 335

How did your reading go this month?

November 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

This month I officially leaned way into reading romance. It’s the only thing that I’ve been able to get through lately. I’ve enjoyed reading other books, but they seem to take me way longer than usual. So yeah! Lots of romance this month.

• The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black – Read
• Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch [ARC 11/10] – DNF 15%
• The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White [ARC 11/10]
• It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne [ARC 12/1]
• The Umbrella Academy vols 2-3 by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba – Read

Also read/reading:

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J Klune – Read, review coming
• Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher – Read and reviewed
• Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore – Read and reviewed
• Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes – Read and reviewed
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman – Read and reviewed
• If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane – Read and reviewed
• Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters – Read, review coming
• Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 10, 1 DNF
Books currently reading: 1

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of November = 325
Books added to TBR = 7
Books read/deleted from TBR = 1
Total on TBR now = 331

How did your reading go this month?

October 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

I had high hopes for this month, but I ended up feeling so slumpy. Nothing sounded good and I had no motivation to actually read. On the other hand, I did catch up on some graphic novel series and ended up doing some rereads so I read more than it felt like I did.

• The Umbrella Academy vols 1-3 by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba (reread) – Finished volume 1
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (preorder) – Read and reviewed
• Boop and Eve’s Road Trip by Mary Helen Sheriff [ARC 10/6]
• Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch [ARC 11/10] – Currently Reading
• The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes – Read and reviewed
• Emma by Jane Austen (book club)

Also read/reading:

• Queen of Volts by Amanda Foody – Currently Reading
• The How and the Why by Cynthia Hand – Read, review coming
• Lumberjanes vol 12: Jackalope Springs Eternal by Shannon Watters et al – Read
• Lumberjanes vol 14: X Marks the Spot by Shannon Watters et al – Read
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen – Reread, dream cast
• The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton – Read and reviewed
• Runaways vol 4: But You Can’t Hide by Rainbow Rowell – Read
• Runaways vol 5: Canon Fodder by Rainbow Rowell – Read
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black – Reread
• The Wicked King by Holly Black – Reread
• The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 12
Books currently reading: 3

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of October = 319
Books added to TBR = 14
Books read/deleted from TBR = 8
Total on TBR now = 325

How did your reading go this month?

August 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

Despite getting through most of my TBR, I’ve been feeling super slumpy this month. I haven’t really been excited by the books I’ve been reading and I’ve had to force myself to get back into them. There’s nothing really wrong with the books themselves…but they haven’t been as absorbing as I would like.

• The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss – Read
• The Gentleman Spy by Erica Vetsch [Blog Tour 8/14] -Read, blog tour
• The Lion’s Den by Katherine St. John – Read, review coming
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell – Read, review coming
• One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London – Read, review coming
• Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles [ARC 8/25] – Currently Reading
• Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale [ARC 8/25] – DNF 28%
• The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand

Books finished this month: 5, 1 DNF
Books currently reading: 1

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of August = 320
Books added to TBR = 6
Books read/deleted from TBR = 7
Total on TBR now = 319

How did your reading go this month?

July 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

I did surprisingly well this month completing my TBR! I got to almost every book even though I didn’t end up reading that many.

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett – Read and reviewed
• Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby – Read, review coming
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero – DNF pg 10
• Being Toffee by Sarah Crossan [ARC 7/14] – Read
• Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon [ARC 7/28] – DNF 11%
• The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand

Also read/reading:

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Read, review coming
• The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan – Read
• The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 5, 2 DNF
Books currently reading: 1

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of July = 317
Books added to TBR = 5
Books read/deleted from TBR = 2
Total on TBR now = 320

How did your reading go this month?

June 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

I actually had a really good month! I’m surprised at how well I was able to stick to my TBR.

• Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer – Read
• Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner – Read, review coming
• Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby – Currently Reading
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson – Read
• Holes by Louis Sachar (book club) – Read
• Again Again by E. Lockhart [ARC 6/2] Read and reviewed
• When the Sky Fell on Splendor by Emily Henry – DNF pg 52
• Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin – Read, review coming
• American Royals by Katharine McGee – Read, review coming

Also read/reading:

• Saga vol 1-9 by Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples – Read
• Lumberjanes, vol 13: Indoor Recess by Shannon Watters – Read
• Stars Above by Marissa Meyer – Finally finished after 3 years
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (book club) – Read
• Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore – Read, review coming
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 20 (1 DNF) Books currently reading: 2

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296 TBR at the beginning of June = 318 Books added to TBR = 7 Books read/deleted from TBR = 8 Total on TBR now = 317

How did your reading go this month?

May 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

I’ve felt pretty good about this month! I’ve read a few great books and some new ones that I was excited about.

• The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant [ARC 6/2] – Read and reviewed
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Read and reviewed
• The Holdout by Graham Moore – Read, review coming
• The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost
• Beach Read by Emily Henry – Read, review coming
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (book club) – Read
• Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

Also read/reading:

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer – Read and reviewed
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer – Read and reviewed
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer – Read and reviewed
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer – Read and reviewed
• The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins – Read, review coming
• Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer – Currently Reading
• Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 10
Books currently reading: 2

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of May = 308
Books added to TBR = 14
Books read/deleted from TBR = 4
Total on TBR now = 318

How did your reading go this month?

April 2020 Wrap-Up/TBR Update

This has just been a weird month all around and I’m pretty proud of how much reading I managed to get done.

• Continue Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot – All finished! (#5-11)
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (book club) – Read, review coming
• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Read and reviewed
• Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden
• The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch [ARC, Blog Tour on 5/7] – Read, review coming
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (book club) – …I’m giving up on this one…
• The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant [ARC 6/2]
• Something by Kristin Hannah: The Great Alone – Currently Reading

Also read/reading:

• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman – Reread
• More than Maybe by Erin Hahn [ARC 7/21] – Read, review coming
• Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Read, review coming
• Behind Every Great Man by Marlene Wagman-Geller – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 13
Books currently reading: 2

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of April = 307
Books added to TBR = 4
Books read/deleted from TBR = 3
Total on TBR now = 308

How did your reading go this month?

March 2020 Wrap-Up & TBR Update

As a stay-at-home mom to a toddler, my day-to-day life hasn’t changed much with the quarantine/social distancing. And yet. Everything has changed, right? Somehow I still managed to read a ton this month. I’m not totally sure how, but here we are. Perhaps you can spot a pattern in my reading below…

• Havenfall by Sara Holland [ARC 3/3] – DNF 39%
• The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley – Finished
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (book club) – Currently Reading
• Catch & Kill by Ronan Farrow – Read
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (book club) – Read
• We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian [ARC 3/31] – Read and reviewed
• Meet Me At Midnight by Jessica Pennington [ARC 4/7] – Read and reviewed
• We Didn’t Ask For This by Adi Alsaid [ARC 4/7] – DNF 18%
• The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh – DNF pg 15

Also read/reading:

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takai – Read
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren – Read
• After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Read
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot – Read
• Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot – Read
• Gotham High by Melissa de la Cruz [ARC 4/7] – Read
• Princess in Love by Meg Cabot – Read
• One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Read
• Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot – Read
• Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Read
• Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot – Currently reading

Books finished this month: 15, 3 DNF
Books currently reading: 2

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of March = 305
Books added to TBR = 8
Books read/deleted from TBR = 6
Total on TBR now = 307

How did your reading go this month?

February 2020 Wrap-Up & TBR Update

I had a great reading month in February! With Locke & Key hitting Netflix, I decided to binge the whole graphic novel series–I’ll probably do an overall series review sometime…soon.

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens – Finished
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson [ARC 2/4] – Read and reviewed
• Ten Days Gone by Beverly Long [ARC 2/18] – DNF 9%
• Havenfall by Sara Holland [ARC 3/3] – Currently Reading
• Every Reason We Shouldn’t by Sara Fujimara [ARC 3/3] – DNF 26%
• Lucky Caller by Emma Mills – Read, review coming
• Prey by Michael Crichton (book club) – Read

Also read/reading:

• Locke & Key, vol 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill – Read
• Locke & Key, vol 2: Head Games by Joe Hill – Read
• Locke & Key, vol 3: Crown of Shadows by Joe Hill – Read
• Locke & Key, vol 4: Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill – Read
• Locke & Key, vol 5: Clockworks by Joe Hill – Read
• Locke & Key, vol 6: Alpha and Omega by Joe Hill – Read
• Furious Hours by Casey Cep – Read
• This Place: 150 Years Untold (Anthology) – Read
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (narrated by Tom Hanks) – Finished
• The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware – Read, review coming
• Sword & Pen by Rachel Caine – Read, review coming
• The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley – Currently Listening
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey – Currently Reading

Books finished this month: 15 with 2 DNF
Books currently reading: 3

Overall TBR:

TBR at the beginning of the year = 296
TBR at the beginning of February = 302
Books added to TBR = 9
Books read/deleted from TBR = 6
Total on TBR now = 305

How did your reading go this month?