Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
January 2024 Wrap Up
I read 11 books in January, which I’m both happy and worried about. Happy because I can’t seem to separate my sense of accomplishment from reading quantity vs quality, and I love that I read more than I normally do in a month. Worried because my goal this year was to read more slowly, savor the books, and remember more details, and I’ve found myself rushing a bit towards the later part of the month. I need to remind myself to read slow!
And be more mindful in book choices as well. I have a lot of books I mean to read this year, but I keep adding more and more new books to the TBR and some I’m just too excited about to wait! Which is fine, but I’d like to try to read some of the books that have been on my shelves forever.
Books Read in January 2024
- Holly by Stephen King
- Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
- The September House by Carissa Orlando
- The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
- Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
- The Switch by Beth O’Leary
- Don’t Call It A Cult by Sarah Berman
- The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
- Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Favorite Book This Month
Oooh, tough choice. Reeaalllyy tough choice. I’m going with The September House by Carissa Orlando, but only by a hair. Holly by Stephen King is a close second.
On The Blog
In addition to the reviews I’ve written for books read in January. Here are some of my other notable posts in January.
Top Ten Tuesdays
- Top Ten Favorite Books in 2023
- Top Ten Most Anticipated Books Jan-Jun 2024
- Top Ten Bookish Goals for 2024
- Top Ten Books I Meant to Read in 2023 But Didn’t
- Top Ten New-to-Me Authors Discovered in 2023
Notes & Discussion Posts
Reading Challenges
2024 Nonfiction Reader Challenge – 1/12
2024 Series Ender Reading Challenge – 1/5
2024 Finishing the Series Challenge – 2/4
2024 Diversity Reading Challenge – 0/12
2024 Bookish Books Challenge – 2/10
2024 Audiobook Challenge – 8/30
2024 Library Love Reading Challenge – 9/36
February 2024 TBR Intentions
This is a sort of TBR list for February 2024. I’m sure I won’t be able to stick to it exactly, but these are the books I anticipate I’ll be reading in February because of release dates, where I am on the library waitlists, being next in a series I’m reading, and other random reasons. It will also help remind me to stick to reading the books I initially wanted to read!
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
- Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherworlds by Heather Fawcett
- The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
- The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
- The Way Forward by Yung Pueblo
- Children of Virtue and Vengence by Tomi Adeyemi
- Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
How was your month in January? What were your most memorable moments? I hope you have a wonderful February with lots of great books!
It is kind of hard to slow down when reading, I’ve tried it but not necessarily succeeded. Now I choose one book to read slowly and read how I want for the others. All the best for February.
That is true. Especially when the story is so good, you can’t slow yourself down! I think that’s such a great idea and a great approach, to choose one book to read slowly and just enjoy the others however you want. I love that! I’ll try to adopt that too, thank you!
I notice that at least a couple of the books on your list are shorter ones, though. It’s easy to read short books quickly, even if you are savoring them. Don’t beat yourself up over reading a lot!
That’s true! I read Thornhedge and The Phantom Tollbooth each in a day, and still enjoyed them very much!