the 17 books i've read so far this year | january february wrapup
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As someone who gets intimidated by people reading a bajillion books a moment, I like the Q1 Wrapup Format
Im still on my very first book of the year. As much as I love reading, Im dyslexic so I take forever BUT whats most important is that you LOVE reading and that I definitely do!
Hey. Great job for being committed and sticking to it!
I’m proud of you for sticking with it!!! The quantity doesn’t matter at all!
That’s the thing, if we love it the pace shouldn’t matter
I guilt tripped myself for not reading any last year so what did I do?
1.5 months 16-17 books 🤓🤣 just because I felt I wasn’t reading enough. And it’s not enjoyable so I’m gonna do my best to slow down and still read
Doesn't matter if your reading one book or 15 books a month,as long as your read something and enjoy reading,your considered a reader!
17 is impressive. My goal was only 2 a month.
I loved Bookshops & Bonedust! It didn’t feel quite as cozy as Legends & Lattes because the setting is different, but it was so heartwarming! It’s set in a seaside town and it’s just about them doing the most mundane but sweet things like fixing up a bookstore and eating tasty food. It made me feel so relaxed and so happy unlike most books I read.
Against the Loveless World and Evil Eye were two of my recent Palestinian reads, and I adored them so so so much
which of those was your fave?
@@stephr2433 I adored both, and they were eye-openers in their own regard, but I could relate quite heavily to Yara in Evil Eye so that stood slightly higher on the scale for me.
you read such diverse and interesting books and you always have great summaries of them
QUEEN POSTED!! im still reading my first book of the year lol I want to be you when I grow up (I'm 23).
🥹😭 you still have time I believe in you 💖
I loved None of This Is True! And I recently finished Map of the Otherlands and actually enjoyed it even more than the first book, haha! My favorites from the past couple of months have been Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Hate U Give, The Girl With the Louding Voice, We Were Dreamers, Chain-Gang All-Stars, and Anne of Green Gables 😊
you should definitely read bookshops and bonedust!!!!! it is such an amazing book. i really love legends and lattes but i read the second book soon after it came out and i love it even more :)) it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re interested
Books I read in January/February:
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (started in December, finished in January)
Allegiant by Veronica Roth (a reread)
Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (didn't finish until March, that book is huge)
Just goes to show that just because you don't read 30 books a month doesn't mean you aren't a reader :)
“Kindred” is a masterpiece. Octavia E. Butler was such an incredible writer. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍
I just read As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow and loved it! I will be reading None of This is True this weekend and Evil Eye next week.
I think you should definitely pick up bookshops and bonedust! I loved legends and lattes when I read it in November, and I read bookshops and bonedust last month, and loved it just as much! I felt like it had the same cozy vibes, except in a bookshop, instead of a coffee shop. Also, since it’s a prequel, as soon as I finished it, I wanted to pick up legends and not his again. My favorite Reid so far this year has been the violent conspiracy.
agreed!! against the loveless world is one of my top 10 of all time
I love your makeup, your eyes are so pretty!
I’m sending you all the love❤❤❤
What a good selection of books
My goal this year is to read 5 books a month, but I’ve actually also read 17 so far! 😅❤
Wow your curls are gorgeous!
I just looooove hearing the high praise that you had for Kindred ❤ I read it in 2 days, which is extremely uncommon for me.
It's so incredible!
I echo your reviews of Kindred (masterpiece!) and The Writer's Retreat (meh). The only Lisa Jewell I've read is Then She was Gone, which I just recently read. It was intense and creepy in a way. I want to read more from her, for sure.
Love legends & lattes 🥹
I love Kindred!
Here's what I read in February
Clytemnestra by constanza casanti
Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles
Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles
The urgent life by Bozoma saint John memoir
The hurricane wars by thea guanzon
Foul heart huntsman by chloe gong
Godkiller by hannah kaner
Shogun by james clavell
While we were dating by jasmine guillory
Endangered by c.j box
Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
One for my enemy by olivie Blake
I read the first book of The Vampire Chronicles and kinda left the story there 😅 are the rest of them worth it?
@@daliblue_ yes the other books are totally worth a read especially since the tv series is airing the second season in may
Are you reading for a living or what?
@@melissar.7802 I just love reading books 💚
@@angelaholmes8888 nice, then I'm going to read it. Recently read Carmilla and I'm in the mood to continue with more vampire stories :)
I just read No Woman is a Man by Etaf Rum and loved it!!
❤id love to read Loveless World,Bride,Evil Eye,Díana Quinn, 😊
Hi Jananie! A bit late, but I read A Woman is No Man on Fable with your book club and I am beyond grateful for it! The book was amazing and heartbreaking, I cannot stop thinking about it since we read it for February. I’d love to know what your thoughts are on it and I know I’ll be picking up Evil Eye soon! All the best!
Ahh I'm so glad you loved it!!! 💖 Will definitely be sharing my thoughts in my next wrap up!
I am looking forward to picking up evil eye.
I read both As Long As The Lemon Tree Grows and Bright Young Women in the past month too :) You should watch Castle in The Sky (Salama and Kenan's fave Ghibli movie) after because you'll be able to see exactly where the author got her inspiration for some of the scenes in the book.
Right now I'm just starting The Forest Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, which I got years ago as a gift from a friend who went home to India during college - it's a feminist retelling of the Ramayana, which seems really cool, and I really haven't seen people talk about it in the bookish community.
As a person whose English isn't the 1st language, 4 books in a month is a lot for me. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
A few books I read and enjoyed were The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, The Others series by Anne Bishop (re read), Bookshops &Bonedust (better than L&L) Emily Wildes Encyclopedia....so so, but I have the 2nd book.
read in Jan:
sci·fi: Wayard Pines trilogy - Blake Crouch
sci·fi: Generation Ship -Michael Mammay
horror: Nestlings - Nat Cassidy
fantasy: The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez 😻
horror: Natural Beauty -Ling Ling Huang
sci·fi: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir 😻 (audio - highly rec the audio!)
fantasy: The Founders trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett 😻
spec·fic: Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Emma Törsz (audio - do NOT rec this book)
read in Feb:
fantasy: The Green Bone Saga (Jade City trilogy) - Fonda Lee 😻
horror short stories: Bad Dolls - Rachel Harrison
thriller/horror: Dead of Winter - Darcy Coates
horror: The September House - Carissa Orlando 😻
cozy fantasy: Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree
sci·fi/horror: Exit Black - Joe Pitkin (do NOT rec)
lit·fic/hist·fic: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh 😻
Japanese crime thriller: Out - Natsuo Kirino (audio - rec but check TW)
read so far in March:
sci·fi: Upgrade - Blake Crouch
horror: House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland
thriller: Blacktop Wasteland - S.A. Cosby
horror: A History of Fear - Luke Dumas
sci·fi: Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
thriller: Kill For Me, Kill For You - Steve Cavanaugh
current reads:
dystopic: A Ballad of Songbirds & Saints - Suzanne Collins (audio - booooring)
fantasy: Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
TBR for rest of March:
thriller: None of This is True - Lisa Jewell
lit·fic: Evil Eye - Etaf Rum
lit·fic: Salt Houses - Hala Alayan
sci·fi: Palestine+100 - anthology
poetry: A River Dies of Thirst - Mahmoud Darwish
and already planned out my April TBR 😄
I’m on my 42nd book this year
I’m on my 36th book of the year so far 😊
I really enjoyed, Bride.
I did too, bride was quite good 😊
Anybody know what the name of the Seven Year Slip dark version is or where the book can be purchased? She mentioned it in the video.
It's not actually a book! I was just saying I wish there was one! Sorry for the confusion!
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I truly loved The Ex Hex, not because it was groundbreaking but i did enjoy the sex scenes
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THEN SHE WAS GONE BY LISA JEWELL !! My second favorite after none of this is true
*spoiler alert for None of This is True* I wanted so badly to love this book and for it to get me back into thrillers, but I thought that the concept of a teenager manipulating a 40+ year old man into sleeping with her and that being a sign of her psychopathy was wild and I just couldn’t buy it.
THIS is what i needed on this sunday 🤍🤍