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: