December 2020 Wrap-up
December TBR Pile (19/25):
Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Girly Book Club: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Friend Book Club: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab ✓
Friend Book Club (Dec): Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
TBR Random (Dec): Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins ✓
Goodreads To Read Random (Dec): Still Life by Louise Penny
Theme 1: Wrapped Up for Christmas by Katlyn Duncan ✓
Theme 1: A Christmas to Remember by Jenny Hale ✓
Theme 1: The Christmas Princess by Patricia McLinn ✓
Theme 2: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Theme 2: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix ✓
Theme 2: Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas ✓
Scifi: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
Comics: The Tea Dragon Society ✓
Comics: The Tea Dragon Festival ✓
Comics: Flight Vol. 2 ✓
Comics: Once & Future King Vol. 2 ✓
Comics: Lumberjanes / Gotham Academy ✓
Comics: Monstress Vol. 5 ✓
Added: Gotham Academy Semester 2 Vol. 1 ✓
Added: Gotham Academy Semester 2 Vol. 2 ✓
Added: Her Christmas Bonus by Rain Danvers ✓
Added: Let It Snow by Erica Ridley ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 4439 pages
Pages Remaining: 501,761 pages
Current Read - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam; Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (0)
January TBR Pile:
Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Girly Book Club: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Girly Book Club: Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips
Friend Book Club: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
MMD RC: Still Life by Louise Penny
Nonfiction: The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
Nonfiction: Librarian Tales by William Ottens
Nonfiction: Underland by Robert Mcfarlane
Romance: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt
Romance: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
Scifi: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Scifi: The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Fantasy: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Comics: Solution and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Comics: Wellington by Aaron Mahnke
Movies watched
Beneath the Planet of the Apes - I’m slowly working through this series that I’ve never watched.
Florence Foster Jenkins - Delightful biography.
Holidate - Delightful Christmas romantic comedy.
Tenet - Too smart for its own good. Parts were liked and parts that were just too confusing.
MIB: International - Rotten Tomatoes’ score of 22% was very harsh. This was an okay summer blockbuster popcorn flick. I would give it more like 55%.
Insert Coin - Interesting documentary about coin op games and Midway. Didn’t know I needed to watch that one.
Soul - This was really beautifully; something I expect from Pixar.
WW84 - Very underwhelming…
Fatman -
TV Shows watched
Lovecraft Country S1
His Dark Materials S2
The Mandalorian S2
Below Deck: Sailing Yacht S1
Star Trek DS9 S1 - As we finished some of the other shows, we jumped back into Star Trek.
Schitt’s Creek S1-2 - We finally started it!
Comments - Finished off the year strong with 30 books over my goal.
Next up on the TBR pile: