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.

November 2024 Wrap Up

November was a hectic month for me and I missed several weekly posts and didn’t write a single book review. I also haven’t replied comments here or visited other book blogs. I have so much to catch up on! I’m also feeling a little pressured because there is one more month in 2024 left, and I haven’t read so many of the books I listed on my 2024 tbr, and I don’t think I can.

December is probably going to be another hectic month, and I’m already thinking of all the ways I want to slow down for 2025. Unfortunately, I already committed to some things that will go on into 2025, but I’ll do my best to lock it down!

My November 2024 TBR Intentions

I did relatively well on my November TBR intentions, but The Glass Chateau has been on my TBR the longest out of all the others listed, and it’s the one I don’t think I’ll be able to get to until next year! But let’s just focus on the wins, okay? 😅

1. Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes
2. Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes
3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
4. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
5. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
6. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
7. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
8. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Books Read in November 2024

1. Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes
2. Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes
3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
4. Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
5. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
6. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
7. The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
8. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes
9. Undeath and Taxes by Drew Hayes
10. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
11. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
12. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Notable Books This Month

I was super surprised with Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan! I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did, but it was just fun and so enjoyable to read. It’s isekai, apparently (I just learned the term isekai recently!), and I love it!

There were a couple of heavy books this month but because of stuff happening in my personal life, I ended up reading a lot of light and fun books this month because they were all I could do. Specifically I loved:

• The Super Powered series by Drew Hayes
• Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
• Fred, the Vampire Accountant series by Drew Hayes
• Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman

There are many more books to go in the latter two series and I am so hyped up about them! I had to pause on them because there were other books with deadlines I had to finish, but I’m totally going back to them whenever I can!

Reading Challenges

All done with challenges this year. Time to think of new challenges for next year! I’m going to slow it down and go a little easier on myself next year, hopefully.

December 2024 TBR Intentions

Most of the books listed below are December BOTMs or buddy reads with a December deadline. I also fully intend to continue with the other series I’m reading now; Fred, the Vampire Accountant, and Dungeon Crawler Carl.

1. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
2. In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
5. The Outsider by Stephen King
6. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

At this point, there are several books I listed on my TBR since the beginning of the year that I still haven’t gotten to and don’t think I’ll be able to get to before next year. Oh well. There have also been so many books I didn’t intend to read this year, but did and loved, so it totally balances out!

December is the last month of the year; I hope you all reach your reading goals this year, receive all the bookish gifts and wishes you make, and have the most wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!

How was your month in November? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful December with lots of great books!

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.

October 2024 Wrap Up

October wasn’t a very good reading month for me; I had two DNFs and a few books I wasn’t quite satisfied with. I was in a general funk and sulking about the DNFs and sub-par books, and I spent a little too much time on the DNFs trying to decide if I should finish them or not. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now but it’s really not easy to let go! 😭

I did have a few great books though! And I’m choosing to focus on them. I read two Stephen Kings, which are always great! And I’m currently obsessed with the Super Powered series by Drew Hayes.

My October 2024 TBR Intentions

I think I’ve learned my lesson with setting my tbr intentions. The DNFs were kind of demotivating, but I need to learn to move on and focus on the books I loved.

1. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
2. The Shining by Stephen King
3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
4. Never Whistle at Night by various authors – DNF
5. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
6. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
7. I Fell in Love With Hope by Lancali – DNF

Books Read in October 2024

1. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
2. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
3. The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
4. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
5. The Shining by Stephen King
6. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 9 by Nagabe
7. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 10 by Nagabe
8. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 11 by Nagabe
9. Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes
10. Super Powereds: Year 2 by Drew Hayes
11. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
12. The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

Notable Books This Month

Super Powereds by Drew Hayes
This series was the highlight for me this month. Almost every other book I’ve read this month is either horror and/or have heavy themes, and I think this series was just so fun and enjoyable to read. The books are huge, and so many hours on audiobook, but they’re so entertaining and easy to get through. Once again, I have to comment on the amateurish writing because I don’t want to hype it up without giving this heads up, but it’s come to a point that I almost feel the writing is deliberate and becomes part of the fun of reading the books – you can have drinking games out of pointing out how many times the author uses a few particular phrases!

I also had three very good rereads:

1. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
2. The Shining by Stephen King
3. Pet Sematary by Stephen King

I loved the Becky Chambers books the first time I read it and I feel like I got more out of it the second time around, especially reading it as a buddy read and seeing what other people thought about it and what stood out to them. I’m also planning to read the next books in the series again some time soon.

I had also read both Stephen King books some time ago and enjoyed them but it has been decades since I read them and they both hit differently this time. I’m paying more attention to some of the details this time even though I’m sure there’s still a lot I’m missing. I’m definitely noticing Stephen King’s genius a lot more this time.

Reading Challenges

I have finished every challenge I signed up for this year except two:

• 2024 Series Ender Reading Challenge – 2/5
• 2024 Finishing the Series Challenge – 3/4

They are both related to finishing series and even though I don’t have very many to go, I have decided to let go of both these challenges because they no longer resonate. I have been reading many series this year, actually, and even finishing them(!), but they don’t count based on the parameters of these challenges and I realized that these challenges don’t work for what I originally wanted them for and it’s okay to let them go. I’ll be more mindful of the challenges I sign up for next year!

November 2024 TBR Intentions

Definitely wanting to continue with the rest of the Super Powered series, and I’m also looking forward to Dungeon Crawler Carl. It’s good knowing that these two fun series are in there among the other heavier books.

1. Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes
2. Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes
3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
4. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
5. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
6. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
7. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
8. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Even though many of these are heavy, I’m still excited to read them. Some of them have been on my TBR for ages!

How was your month in October? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful November with lots of great books!