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Monthly Wrap Up | February 2024

Posted February 29, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 6 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.

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

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!

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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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Top Ten Tuesday | Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To

Posted January 22, 2024 by Haze in Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Book Memes / 58 Comments

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl that features a different bookish topic every week.

Today’s topic is Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To

Oh, the shame!

Not only are there so many books that I meant to read in 2023 but didn’t, some of them go so far back on my TBR list, I don’t even remember what they’re about or if I still want to read them! These are just the few that I most want to read, and I really hope I get to them some time this year!

Top Ten Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To

Top-Bottom, Left-Right:

  1. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley – Well, the whole Checquy series, actually. This is the first book in the series, and I’ve read it a while ago. I meant to reread this and then the rest of the series in 2022, but I didn’t, and then I meant to read it in 2023, but didn’t. The good news is, I got the audiobook last week and have started reading it, finally! So hopefully I’ll actually finish the series this year.
  2. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir – I keep meaning to read this and the rest of the series too, but this one isn’t my fault. It took a long time to get to me on the waitlist, and I had other books in the queue as well, and didn’t manage to get to it before I had to return it again for the next reader. Let’s hope the timing works out for this year!
  3. Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer – And yet another series I meant to read. I hear great things about it, I just haven’t gotten around to it.
  4. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan – This is one of my favorite authors and I’ve read all his other books. I was so excited when this book came out last year, and I meant to read it, but I took it for granted and before I knew it, the year ended and it’s still unread!
  5. The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang – I loved the first book in this series, and I have this and the next book on my high priority list. The first book was good but a little heavy, and I’m afraid the next books will be too, so I’m procrastinating a bit.
  6. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller – By all accounts, I think I’d love this book and I keep meaning to read it but I just haven’t picked it up yet.
  7. Between Us by Mhairi McFarlane – I’m not too ashamed of this one because it’s relatively new, but I originally planned to read it as soon as it came out, so I hope I get to it this year.
  8. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster – I’ve had this on my physical bookshelf for a couple of years and I keep meaning to read it. It was supposed to be one of the first books I meant to read this year too, but I haven’t gotten to it yet.
  9. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon – I won’t lie, I’m a bit intimidated by the size, but then again I do love big books. I’m not in a hurry to read this, but I do want to try to get to it before the end of 2024.
  10. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder – This series has been on my TBR for years and years and years. I hope to at least read the first book this year!

Did you read any of these books? What did you think of them? Are they worth still keeping on my TBR for 2024?

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Top Ten Tuesday | Books On My Winter 2023 To-Read List

Posted December 11, 2023 by Haze in Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Book Memes / 41 Comments

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl that features a different bookish topic every week.

Today’s topic is Books On My Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List. I don’t typically read a lot of Christmas-themed or winter-themed books on purpose. If they happen to be set in winter or at Christmas, that’s fine and I enjoy them, but I don’t seek them out, so my winter TBR are just regular books I want to read. I do love watching a lot of cheesy Christmas-themed movies during the season though!

Below are the books I hope to read this winter. Many are library books that I’m on the waitlist for, and I’m estimating that they’ll be getting to me this winter, so fingers crossed!

Top Ten Books on my Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List

Top-Bottom, Left-Right:

  1. The Switch by Beth O’Leary – I read and loved a couple of her other books but I haven’t gotten around to this one yet.
  2. Holly by Stephen King – I really enjoyed the Mr. Mercedes series where we first got to know Holly, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of her here.
  3. Light Bringer by Pierce Brown – I am stuck in limbo waiting for this one to get to me because it’s Book 6 in the Red Rising series, and I was in pain seeing my beloved characters suffer in Book 5. I need to know what happens next!
  4. Slewfoot by Brom – I don’t actually know what this is about. I just heard a lot of good things about the book and author. I did just recently read a different book by this same author and didn’t like it, so I’m tempering my expectations.
  5. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett – It’s the title that got me for this one. I would’ve read it even if it was an actual nonfic encyclopedia. In fact, I’d probably want to read it more if it was a real encyclopedia of faeries!
  6. Watership Down by Richard Adams – This has been on my TBR for ages and ages. It’s one of those books you take for granted because it’s a classic and you know it will always be relevant so you can read it any time.
  7. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid – Not sure if I should be embarrassed to admit that Bookstagram is responsible for this one.
  8. The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson – Also this one. What can I say? I’m weak and easily influenced!
  9. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross – I actually have a different book by this author on my TBR, A River Enchanted, but yes, Bookstagram is making me want to read this first. We have already established I’m weak.
  10. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan – This is one of my favorite authors and I’ve read everything he’s written so far, except this one which is his latest. His books are beautiful and profound and beautiful and lyrical, and did I say beautiful? I cannot recommend him enough.

I am very much looking forward to these books! Have you read any of them? I’d love to hear your thoughts. What books are you excited for this winter?

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