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| 259 of 448 pages | 557 pages (🎧) | 432 pages (🎧) | 162 pages (🎧) |
| — | ★★★☆☆ | ★★☆☆☆ | ★★★★☆ |
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| 388 pages (🎧) | 384 pages | 303 pages (🎧) | 320 pages (🎧) |
| ★★★☆☆ | ★★☆☆☆ | ★★★★☆ | ★★★☆☆ |
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| 208 pages (🎧) | 256 pages (🎧) | 336 pages (🎧) | 336 pages (🎧) |
| ★★★★☆ | ★★★★☆ | ★★★☆☆ | ★★☆☆☆ |
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| 403 pages (🎧) | 369 pages (🎧) | 337 pages (🎧) | 320 pages (🎧) |
| ★★☆☆☆ | ★★★★☆ | ★★☆☆☆ | ★★★☆☆ |
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| 345 pages | |||
| ★★★★☆ |
DNFs
none in January!
Total pages: 5,715
Total books: 16 full + 1 partial
Average rating: 3.27 stars
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- BEST ADULT: It has to be Stiff by Mary Roach. This book was funny and informative!
- BEST YA: It was a tough decision, but I think Together We Caught Fire by Eva V. Gibson is the winner. I read most of this book in one sitting because I had to know how everything would end.
- BEST MG: In December it was Small Spaces, and in January it’s Dead Voices, both by Katherine Arden. I love this series.
2020’s reading challenges are off to a great start!
Monthly Motif is a reading challenge hosted by girlxoxo.
January’s theme was winter wonderland, or, more specifically, “a book set in a truly wonderful place – somewhere you’ve always thought was beautiful, somewhere with a wonderfully rich culture, a snowy setting, or maybe even a magical realm.” I think a lot of books I read could qualify for this, but the first one I used toward the prompt was:
- The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
I finished a total of 16 books in January, putting me off to a great start!
What’s in a Name is hosted by Andrea @ Carolina Book Nook.
I crossed off three of the six prompts in January:
The Audiobook Challenge is hosted by Hot Listens & Caffeinated Reviewer.
I set a goal of listening to 50 audiobooks in 2020, and I listened to 14 in January. If I can keep listening at this rate, I’ll have no problem completing this challenge!
(The 🎧 on my page count shows all my audiobook listens.)
How did January go for you? Are you doing any reading challenges? Let’s talk in the comments!
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I love the Small Spaces series! Katherine Arden is quickly becoming a new favorite author 😍
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It’s so good! I’m going to have to see if the library has any of her other books available. 🙂
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You’re a brave one for even picking up Handbook for Mortals, haha.🤣
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Haha, thank you! It’s so bad but reading it is so entertaining! It’s like how you might imagine a book would be written by someone who has never read a book.
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I’m curious about your thoughts on a handbook for mortals. I haven’t heard the best things about it so I can’t wait to see your review for it.
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It’s absolutely terrible! My boyfriend and I are doing a buddy read and we can usually only get through a few pages at a time, but we’re having a lot of fun with it. I’m going to have a great time writing my review. 🙂
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Wow, that’s an awesome list of books! 😍🤤 For me personally, Jan was mostly a reread month and I don’t count those in my reading challenges so my score for now is zero, sadly. 😂
Hopefully, Feb will change that. 💜
Have a great reading week!
Here’s the link to my weekly recap in case you’re interested:
https://saraabesukhan.com/the-sunday-post-4/
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Thank you! And there’s still plenty of the year for those reading challenges. 🙂
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I just cannot wait to read your review for Handbook for Mortals. I feel it’s wrong of me but I genuinely want to try reading it myself to vent. I feel like I’ve said that before. Oh dear, I’m going to end up doing it aren’t I?!
Glad to see that you enjoyed Coraline as well. Have you seen the movie? I actually think the movie is better than the book.
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Please read it and complain along with me! We’re almost done with the buddy read (we got sidetracked a bit from traveling and sickness) and it’s just… such an experience.
And yes! I saw the movie years ago and loved it. I think having seen the movie made me enjoy the book more since I could picture everything that was happening.
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Is it wrong that I’m slowly accumulating a list of whinge books?! I want to read it now just for that reason 😛 I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for your review! Which I’m looking forward to by the way.
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Not at all, I have my own list! 🙂
We have about 70 pages left and I can’t wait to write my review. I have many, many pages flagged and many things to say. Every time I think Lani can’t surprise me again, she goes and does something else with the book.
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