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Monthly Wrap Up | January 2024

Posted February 1, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 4 Comments

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

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!

  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!

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Sunday Post | An Ice-Skating Christmas Day

Posted December 30, 2023 by Haze in Sunday Post, Weekly Book Memes / 24 Comments

Welcome to the Sunday Post, a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer to share weekly news and updates on what we’ve been up to on our blog, with our books, and book-related happenings. 

An Ice-Skating Christmas Day

The week started out wonderful with Christmas Day and a small ice-skating gathering in the morning. We made some new friends and had a lot of fun even though it was outdoors and really cold! We didn’t do much the rest of the day but we did have some really yummy leftovers.

I’m also happy because I did quite well this last week with finishing and reviewing three books. And I got out of my comfort zone and signed up for three more reading challenges for 2024!! That means that I’m currently signed up for nine reading challenges in 2024. NINE!

To be fair, Finishing the Series and Series Enders are complementary, and the Library Love and Audiobook challenges would have a lot of overlap since I get all my audiobooks from the library! Also, the Classics challenge is technically a five-year challenge, so if I don’t do well in 2024, I can catch up in the next years!

I really hope I don’t regret this! Have you signed up for any reading challenges? How many reading challenges are the sweet spot for you?

I also managed to get A Christmas Carol finished! Holy description, Dickens has got a way with words! I’m familiar with his works in pop culture and adaptations, but I haven’t actually finished any of his books. This is my first, and will definitely not be the last.

Last Week on The Blog

This Week

I will probably be writing the review for A Christmas Carol this week, but also, it’s the first week of 2024 and I can finally get started on all the books that fit the challenges I signed up for!

  • Holly by Stephen King – for the Finishing the Series and Series Enders challenges
  • Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson – for the Nonfiction challenge
  • The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin – for the Bookish Books challenge
  • Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson – for the Bookish Books challenge

These are books already on my digital bookshelf, and will count for the Library Love and Audiobook challenges too! I don’t know if I can finish them all this week, but they’re the first ones on my list.


I hope you had a great week last week, and I hope you have a great one again this week!

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