December TBR Pile (17/37):
Book of the Month Club: One Day in December by Josie Silver
Book of the Month Club: Well Met by Jen DeLuca
Book of the Month Club: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Book of the Month Club: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Girly Book Club: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (I just read this one, so no reread)
Friend Book Club: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante ✓
Ebook: Silver Bells by CJ Hunt
Ebook: Second Chance Christmas by Shawn Inmon
Ebook: Romancing the Holidays by Jolene Cazzola
Ebook: In Too Deep by Tracey Alvarez
Ebook: Christmas with You by Tracey Alvarez
Ebook: Christmas Light by Jolyse Barnett ✓
Ebook: A Pirate for Christmas by Anna Campbell
Ebook: Her Christmas Bonus by Rain Danvers
Ebook: A Kiss of Christmas by Jillian Eaton ✓
Ebook: A Kiss for Christmas by Melody Grace
Ebook: Home for Christmas by Daphne James Huff
Ebook: A Cheyenne Christmas by Caroline Lee
Ebook: A Cheyenne Christmas Homecoming by Caroline Lee
Random TBR Pick: Twenty Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks ✓
Popsugar (“Pop, sugar, challenge”): Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman ✓
Modern Mrs. Darcy: Persuasion by Jane Austen ✓ (no review as this is a reread, but it is my second favorite book of all time)
Finishing the Series: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Romance: Santa’s On His Way ✓
Romance: Finding Christmas by Karen Schaler ✓
Romance: Christmas in Vermont by Anita Hughes
Romance: 25 Days ‘til Christmas by Poppy Alexander ✓
Dancing with Fantasy and Scifi: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Creativity: Craft a Life You Love by Amy Tangerine
Added: This Christmas by Jeannie Moon ✓
Added: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan ✓
Added: The Old-Fashioned by Robert Simonson ✓
Added: The One by John Marrs ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 4790 pages
Pages Remaining: 570,433 pages
Current Read - The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness; The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan; Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (4) - Couldn’t resist the 2 for $10 deal at Barnes and Noble this week and the Stan Lee’s birthday sale at Summit.
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
Lady Mechanika Vol. 4: The Clockwork Assasin
Lady Mechanika La Dama de la Muerte
January TBR Pile:
Book of the Month Club: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
BOTM: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Girly Book Club: The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
Friend Book Club: The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
OBM Book Club: Invisible Women by Criado-Perez
Unread Shelf Random: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Goodreads To Read Random: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
TBR Jar Random: The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
Theme 1: Wool by Hugh Howey
Theme 1: Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Theme 1: Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Theme 2: Kate Chopin by Emily Toth
Theme 2: The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara
Theme 2: TBD
Carryover: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Comics: Daybreak
Kindle Unlimited: Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid
Kindle Unlimited: Friends without Benefits by Penny Reid
Library: The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas
Library: Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
Library: The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Adams
Library: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty
Library: The Toll by Cherie Priest
Library: The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang
UnRead Shelf Plans
For January, the prompt is to read any unread book from my shelf. I imagine something will strike my fancy. As for the strategies, there were three tasks for this month.
Count your books - Currently there are 120 unread books sitting in the theater room bookshelf. I’m not counting any ebooks or the books currently residing in the attic. Figure I will focus on those books first.
Library and book buying ban - I’m excepting my book club books and anything I already have on hold for the library.
Make a Top 10 to read for 2020 - I spent some time and make my short list:
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
Scandalous Women of the Ton Series by Nicola Cornick
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomikas Adeyemi
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Well Met by Jen DeLuca
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Movies watched
Ready or Not - Love love loved this movie!
Christmas at Pemberley Manor - So dumb, but I do like my Holiday romances. I just couldn’t get over the male lead. I kept conflating him with his not-so-nice character on UnReal.
Hail Satan - Very interesting documentary. I am fascinated.
6 Underground - Terrible movie. Even Ryan Reynolds could not save it.
TV Shows watched
Daybreak S1 - We finished this season and loved every minute of it! And oh that cliffhanger was brutal! Really hoping we get a season 2.
American Gods S1 - Slowly making our way through this first season.
Below Deck S1-2 - My mom keeps begging me to watch this one. Finally started after catching a few episodes at the gym.
A Discovery of Witches S1 - Finally got around to this one! Oh so good!
The Mandalorian S1 - Yes!
Comments - Wooo!!! What a reading year! I ended up reading 255 books in 2019. Hoping to carry some momentum into 2020.
Next up on the TBR pile:
