January TBR Pile (20/26):

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 ✓

16. Added: How to Catch a Wild Viscount by Tessa Dare ✓

17. Added: His Defiant Princess by Kathleen O’Brien ✓

18. Added: His Christmas Princess by Kathleen O’Brien ✓

19. Added: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux ✓

20. Added: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ✓

21. Added: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn ✓

22. Added: An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn ✓

23. Added: Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn ✓

24. Added: Lock In by John Scalzi ✓

25. Kid Read Aloud: The Very Very Far North by Dan Bar-el ✓

26. Kid Read Aloud: Matilda by Roald Dahl ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 6279 pages
Pages Remaining: 495,483 pages

Current Read - Underland by Robert Macfarlane; The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Books I Gave Up On (1)

• Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates - I read about 30% and had a feeling that things were not going to take a good turn. I ended up reading Goodreads review and was validated in my feeling. CW for suicide and rape.

Books bought/received (4)

Two BOTM the month selections for me this month. One was free as it was a finalist for Book of the Year.

• Outlawed by Anna North

• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

I also picked up two romance paperbacks from Half Price Books. These are from Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series that I’m really enjoying reading. The library does not have either of these volumes right now, but does have later volumes.

• Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt

• Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 292

• Books Read: 6

• Books Acquired: 4

• Books Unshelved: 9

• Finishing Number: 281

February TBR Pile:

1. Book of the Month Club: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

2. Girly Book Club: Excursion by Blake Crouch (reread for me)

3. Girly Book Club: Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips

4. Friend Book Club: The Widow by Fiona Barton

5. MMD RC: Still Life by Louise Penny

6. Nonfiction: Librarian Tales by William Ottens

7. Nonfiction: Underland by Robert Mcfarlane

8. Romance: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt

9. Romance: Darling Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt

10. Romance: Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt

11. Romance: To Sir Phillip With Love by Julia Quinn

12. Romance: It’s In His His by Julia Quinn

13. Romance: When He was Wicked by Julia Quinn

14. Romance: On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn

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

16. Scifi: Scythe by Neal Shusterman

17. Fantasy: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

18. Fantasy: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Movies watched

• The Last Blockbuster - Interesting little documentary

• Fahrenheit 451 (2018) - Really enjoyed the first act or so, but the second half of the movie was very weak.

TV Shows watched 

• Below Deck: Sailing Yacht S1

• Star Trek DS9 S1

• Schitt’s Creek S2-6 - We burned through five seasons in like two weeks. Oh goodness! I was in tears at the end. So incredibly good.

• The Watch S1 - J is super excited about this show based on The Watch novels from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.

• Lupin S1 - That was such a good show, but darn it, what a cliffhanger!

• The Bachelor - Ooofff, I’m not loving some of the women and their interactions on Matt James’s season.

Comments - Starting off the year strong! I read 18 books for myself and 2 kid read alouds. I managed to keep my library numbers down and read a decent number of unread shelf books. We managed to finish a few seasons of tv and almost an entire series. February is going to be our traditional new-to-us movie month, so very little television series will be watched. Can’t wait!

Next up on the TBR pile: