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December 2020 Wrap-up

December TBR Pile (19/25):

  1. Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

  2. Girly Book Club: Exhalation by Ted Chiang

  3. Friend Book Club: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

  4. Friend Book Club (Dec): Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

  5. TBR Random (Dec): Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

  6. Goodreads To Read Random (Dec): Still Life by Louise Penny

  7. Theme 1: Wrapped Up for Christmas by Katlyn Duncan

  8. Theme 1: A Christmas to Remember by Jenny Hale

  9. Theme 1: The Christmas Princess by Patricia McLinn

  10. Theme 2: Uprooted by Naomi Novik

  11. Theme 2: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

  12. Theme 2: Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas

  13. Scifi: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

  14. Comics: The Tea Dragon Society

  15. Comics: The Tea Dragon Festival

  16. Comics: Flight Vol. 2

  17. Comics: Once & Future King Vol. 2

  18. Comics: Lumberjanes / Gotham Academy

  19. Comics: Monstress Vol. 5

  20. Horror: North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

  21. Added: Gotham Academy Semester 2 Vol. 1

  22. Added: Gotham Academy Semester 2 Vol. 2

  23. Added: Her Christmas Bonus by Rain Danvers

  24. Added: Let It Snow by Erica Ridley

  25. Added: The Christmas Contest by Scarlet Wilson

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:

  1. Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

  2. Girly Book Club: Exhalation by Ted Chiang

  3. Girly Book Club: Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips

  4. Friend Book Club: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

  5. MMD RC: Still Life by Louise Penny

  6. Nonfiction: The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen

  7. Nonfiction: Librarian Tales by William Ottens

  8. Nonfiction: Underland by Robert Mcfarlane

  9. Romance: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt

  10. Romance: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

  11. Scifi: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

  12. Scifi: The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

  13. Fantasy: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  14. Comics: Solution and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

  15. 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: