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 2025 Wrap Up

Hello, my friends! What even is this new year! A month has gone by and I feel like I haven’t found my feet yet. I’m still so frazzled and disorganized it’s not even funny! 😭

I’m doing the bare minimum, but of course, “bad habits” like reading are hard to get rid of, so I’m always reading even as I’m drowning in my disorganization. You could say that it’s partly because of my reading that everything is disorganized, I’m sticking my head in books to avoid handling stuff I need to do. 😅 Ah well, they’ll get done eventually.

My January 2025 TBR Intentions

I didn’t do very well with my TBR intentions even though the list isn’t very long, but 50% isn’t too bad.

1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
3. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
4. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
5. The Terror by Dan Simmons
6. Vicious by V.E. Schwab

Books Read in January 2025

1. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
2. The Measure by Nikki Erlick
3. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
4. NPCs by Drew Hayes
5. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
7. Joyland by Stephen King
8. Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson
9. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
10. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Notable Books This Month

Two Stephen King books this month! One was a reread (‘Salem’s Lot) and the other (Joyland) is a new read. I loved them both, as if there could be any doubt!

Killers of the Flower Moon was really good; infuriating and emotional, but also educational, and we ended up watching the movie too.

I also finally read Shark Heart. It’s been on my TBR since last year but not prioritized because I thought it was a light-hearted magical realism story. It ended up being so much more emotional and heartfelt than I expected and I had a lot of great discussions come out of it.

Guillotine and Maus were also really good, but I haven’t written my reviews yet. They’ll be coming soon!

Reading Challenges

I’ve read a few books that fit into The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge and The Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge already, but I haven’t done a proper tally and I still haven’t decided on the other challenges I actually want to take on. My focus has been all over the place!

I will try to figure things out before this month is over!

February 2025 TBR Intentions

So many books to read, the TBR never ends! There are some I’m looking forward to this month though.

1. Vicious by V.E. Schwab
2. The Terror by Dan Simmons
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
4. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
5. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

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