January 2024 Wrap-up
- monthly wrap-up
January TBR Pile (31/31):
- Bookworms BC: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca ✓
- Friend BC: The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin ✓
- Friend BC: The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott ✓
- Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-El ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg ✓
- Kid Book Club: A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd ✓
- Kid Book Club: The Fourteenth Goldfish by Natalie Lloyd ✓
- Fantasy: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman ✓
- Fantasy: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman ✓
- Fantasy: The Dungeon Anarachist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman ✓
- Fantasy: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman ✓
- Fantasy: Timekeeper by Tara Simm ✓
- Fantasy: Signal Moon ny Kate Quinn ✓
- Fantasy: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden ✓
- Fantasy: Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson ✓
- Fantasy: The Magician by Rebecca Serle ✓
- Science Fiction: All Systems Red by Martha Wells (reread) ✓
- Science Fiction: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (reread) ✓
- Science Fiction: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (reread) ✓
- Science Fiction: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (reread) ✓
- Science Fiction: Network Effect by Martha Wells (reread) ✓
- Nonfiction: Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine ✓
- Romance: Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan ✓
- Romance:: A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert ✓
- Romance: Damaged Goods by Talia Hibbert ✓
- Romance: Under Her Skin by Adriana Anders ✓
- Romance: Teach Me by Olivia Dade ✓
- Romance: Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura ✓
- Romance: Mr. Fixer Upper by Lucy Score ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 9306 pages Pages Remaining: 265,682 pages
Current Read - Guards! Guards! by Terry Prachett (kid read aloud); The Last One by Will Dean; Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books Bought/Received (8):
I grabbed the preorder of Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert.
Half Price Books finds during their after Christmas sale.
- The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May
- Malamander by Thomas Taylor
- Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
- The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
At the Barnes and Noble sale after Christmas, I came away with five books for me:
- A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
- Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston
- The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
- The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller
- The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas
UnRead Shelf Progress
- Starting Number: 324
- Books Read: 2
- Books Acquired: 8
- Books Unshelved: 0
- Finishing Number: 330
February TBR Pile:
- Bookworms BC: That Kind of Guy by Talia Hibbert (reread)
- Friend BC: The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
- Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Kid Read Aloud: Guards! Guards! by Terry Prachett
- Kid Read Aloud: Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
- Kid Book Club: The Boy at the Back of the Class by Anjali Rauf
- Fantasy: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
- Science Fiction: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
- Science Fiction: System Collapse by Martha Wells
- Romance: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert
- Romance: Untouchable by Talia Hibbert
- Thriller/Mystery: The Last One by Will Dean
Movies Watched
- Top Secret
- Saltburn
- The Bricklayer
- Self-Reliance
- Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget
- Oppenheimer
- Relax, I’m from the Future
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
- The Marvels
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
- The Beekeeper
TV Shows Watched
- Letterkenny S12 (the last season!!!!)
- Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist S1
- The White House Plumbers
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
- Yonderland S1
- Party Down S3
- The Buccaneers
- Our Flag Means Death S2
- Below Deck: Med
- The Bachelor S28
Comments - Wow! Due to a ton of snow storms, we spent a lot of January in the house. And I read a ton of books and we watched a ton of media. Thankfully, we are able to get out of the house at the end of the month, but it was a very strange month. I only read two books from my Unread Shelf, but I have big plans for February’s reading. Ready for a new month.
Next up on the TBR pile:
