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.

February 2024 Wrap Up

I had a pretty good reading month. I read 19 books, which is a lot more than my usual, but 11 of them were novellas/middle-grade/graphic novels so I got through them fast. I’m also very happy that I managed to read/cross-out several of my February TBR intentions, although I’m a bit disappointed because the two books I dnf’d were meant to count towards my Diversity Reading Challenge goal, and obviously they can’t count anymore. I also had a couple of books on the list meant to count towards my Nonfiction Reading Challenge, but I didn’t get to those either.

Fortunately, I did manage to read other books that counted towards those goals, so I’m not too disappointed! Here’s my February TBR list to recap, and then below are the books I actually read for February.

My February 2024 TBR Intentions

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
2. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
3. Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
4. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherworlds by Heather Fawcett
5. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
6. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
7. The Way Forward by Yung Pueblo
8. Children of Virtue and Vengence by Tomi Adeyemi (DNF)
9. Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien (DNF)

Books Read in February 2024

1. All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John
2. Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
3. The Improbable Meet-Cute Series by various authors
   • The Exception to the Rule by Christina Lauren
   • Worst Wingman Ever by Abby Jimenez
   • Rosie and the Dreamboat by Sally Thorne
   • Drop, Cover, and Hold On by Jasmine Guillory
   • With Any Luck by Ashley Poston
   • Royal Valentine by Sariah Wilson
4. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
5. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
6. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
7. Happily Ever After by Debbie Tung
8. Everything is OK by Debbie Tung
9. The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
10. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
11. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
12. The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
13. The Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz
14. All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Favorite Book This Month

I cannot decide on one because I loved them both so much, so I’ll have to make it a tie and award the title to both Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, and The Storyteller by Dave Grohl.

On The Blog

I didn’t write a lot of posts this month on the blog, other than book reviews (linked above) and Top Ten Tuesday posts.

Top Ten Tuesdays

• Top Ten Recent Books I Read in One Sitting
• Top Ten Favorite Book Relationships
• Top Ten Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had
• Top Ten Covers and Titles With Things Found in Nature

Reading Challenges

2024 Nonfiction Reader Challenge – 2/12
2024 Series Ender Reading Challenge – 1/5
2024 Finishing the Series Challenge – 2/4
2024 Diversity Reading Challenge – 3/12
2024 Bookish Books Challenge – 3/10
2024 Audiobook Challenge – 15/30
2024 Library Love Reading Challenge – 21/36

March 2024 TBR Intentions

I’ll do this every month as a sort of sticky-note to help remind me of the books I want to get to sooner rather than later. I don’t expect to stick to the list exactly, but it’s a great reminder for when I get distracted by new and shiny books!

1. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (it’s my bookclub’s BOTM)
2. Fairy Tale by Stephen King (I’ve read it, but there’s a readalong happening in March!)
3. A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross (I’ve already started it)
4. A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross (because it’s the sequel)
5. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (I’ve been anticipating it the most and I just got the book from the library!)
6. Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (because I loved Legends & Lattes)
7. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherworlds by Heather Fawcett (because I loved Encyclopedia of Faeries)

Hmm… It looks like this list is more reactionary based on urgency, timing, and excitement, but that’s okay for now. I’ll do better after I finish the ones I’m excited about!

How was your month in February? What were your most memorable moments? I hope you have a wonderful March 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.

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

1. Holly by Stephen King
2. Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
3. The September House by Carissa Orlando
4. The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
5. Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
6. The Switch by Beth O’Leary
7. Don’t Call It A Cult by Sarah Berman
8. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
9. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
10. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
11. 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

• Holly by Stephen King
• The September House by Carissa Orlando

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!

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
2. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
3. Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
4. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherworlds by Heather Fawcett
5. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
6. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
7. The Way Forward by Yung Pueblo
8. Children of Virtue and Vengence by Tomi Adeyemi
9. 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!