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January 2025 Wrap-up

January TBR Pile (19/22):

  1. Bookworms BC: Above the Bay of Angels by Rhys Bowen ✓

  2. Bookworms BC: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

  3. Friend BC: Small Angels by Lauren Owen ✓

  4. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker ✓

  5. Kid Book Club: The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontorvant

  6. Kid Read Aloud: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis ✓

  7. Kid Read Aloud: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder ✓

  8. Kid Read Aloud: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

  9. Romance: Blame the Mistletoe by Dani Collins ✓

  10. Romance: Hunting Adeline by HD Carlton ✓

  11. Romance: Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Cordova ✓

  12. Romance: The Never King by Nikki St. Crow ✓

  13. Romance: The Roommate by Rosie Danan ✓

  14. Romance: The Dark One by Nikki St. Crowe ✓

  15. Fantasy: Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer ✓

  16. Fantasy: A Ship of Bones and Teeth by Karina Halle ✓

  17. Fantasy: The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold ✓

  18. Horror: The Gathering by CJ Tudor ✓

  19. Scifi: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow ✓

  20. Scifi: Partials by Dan Wells ✓

  21. Comic: Alice in Borderland Vol. 2 ✓

  22. Comic: Alice in Borderland Vol. 3 ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 6442 pages
Pages Remaining: 184,896 pages

Current Read - The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (7)

Half Price Books after Christmas sale!

  • Horseman by Christina Henry

  • The Albion Initiative by George Mann

  • Frogkisser by Garth Nix

  • The Swifts by Beth Lincoln

Book of the Month had some good selections for January. I had to get three.

  • A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young

  • The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

  • Babylonia by Costanza Casati

UnRead Shelf Progress

  • Starting Number: 308

  • Books Read: 3

  • Books Acquired: 7

  • Books Unshelved: 22

  • Finishing Number: 290

February TBR Pile:

  1. Bookworms BC: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

  2. Friend BC: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

  3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark

  4. Kid Book Club: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

  5. Kid Read Aloud: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

  6. Kid Read Aloud: The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat

  7. Romance: Their Vicious Darling by Nikki St. Crowe

  8. Romance; The Fae Princes by Nikki St. Crowe

  9. Romance: Temple of Swoon by Jo Segura

  10. Horror: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

Movies Watched

  • Enemy of the State - rewatch with the kids

  • Venom 3

  • Wicked

  • The Idea of You - So much better than the book (and I hardly ever say that)

  • Wallace and Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl

  • A Family Affair - Very meh

  • The Killer’s Game - So so bad…

  • Greedy People

TV Shows Watched

  • The Gentlemen S1 - finished

  • Bad Monkey S1 - finished

  • Wednesday S1 - finished

  • SAS Rogue Heroes S2 - finished

  • Below Deck Sailing Yacht

  • Love Life S2 - finished

  • Star Struck S3 - Somehow I left two episodes unwatched in this series…

  • Monarch - finished

  • The Franchise S1

  • Severance S2

  • Pantheon S1

  • The Bachelor

Comments - A great start to my year. I read a ton of books, including three from my own physical unread shelf. I finished many television shows and J and I started some new ones (or at least new seasons). Hoping to keep all the momentum rolling through the rest of winter.

Next up on the TBR pile:

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