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: