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.

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