Monday, February 1, 2021

January Wrap-Up

 Hello Interwebs!

So the first month of 2021  is in the books and I had a very good reading month. Which wasn't so surprising as I ended up being out of work for almost three weeks due to COVID. I personally experienced nothing more than severe cold symptoms: cough, sore throat, congestion, etc. and now we are all completely healthy and I returned to work this past week. 

So over the course of January I read a total of 6 books, all ones that were on my TBR. I DNF'd one book (technically as I read the first two chapters and decided life was too short for that). So here are my January books in order of completion. 

  1. Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams (The Bromance Book Club #2): read from 12.31.2020 to 1.5.2021; 4/5 stars 


  2. Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand (Winter Street #4); read from 1.5.2021 to 1.6.2021; 4.5/5 stars


  3. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King); read from 1.6.2021 to 1.13.2021; 3.5/5 stars 


  4. If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley: read from 12.29.2020 to 1.19.2021; 3.5/5 stars 


  5. Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams (The Bromance Book Club #3): read frmo 1.13.2021 to 1.25.2021; 4.5/5 stars


  6. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins: read from 1.25.2021 to 1.29.2021; 4/5 stars


My favorite book of the month was Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams. It was an all around good time of a book with a really solid friends to lovers romance at the heart of it. My least favorite book was The Long Walk by Stephen King which while not a terrible book by any means (with a solid 3.5 star rating from me) it's definitely not one of my favorites and not a Stephen King novel I mean to reread or purchase for myself. 

The one book that I DNF'd in January was Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate. This was a memoir that I discussed in length last year when it was chosen for Reese's Book Club and I wasn't sure I was going to read it and I certainly wasn't going to buy it. I put in a hold for it at the library so I could at least see what it was like. I made it two chapters into the book and wasn't at all a fan of the author's writing style or her "voice" if that makes sense and I DNF'd it at that point. 


Most of my January books were from the library with only The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins being one I own (my December 2020 Book of the Month pick). I'm very pleased with my reading habits in January and hope to carry that momentum into February. 

I did buy several books in January, some were from Christmas money I received from my grandmother and most were on-sale Kindle books from Amazon, ones that are typically less than $5. 
Happy Reading!
Richelle

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