Week In Review

January 18 - 24

My 2021 reading is off to an excellent start! I’ve been able to focus on my books and have finally started reading / listening to audiobooks! For so long, I couldn’t focus on audiobooks and didn’t really process information as well without being able to see the words, but I have listened to a few audiobooks lately via a Scribd free trial and I think I am going to stick with it.

My blog also got a little makeover, and I am having a lot of fun behind the scenes working with the updates!

New books:

I had so many giftcards to spend on books from Christmas, and I held on to them for a few weeks until I was sure that I knew what I wanted to get with them!

I purchased:

These Violent Delights, Chloe Gong;

Wench, Maxine Kaplan;

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry, C.M. Waggoner;

The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie; and

Woman World, Aminder Dhaliwal.

I also received two e-ARCs from Simon & Schuster Canada:

Such a Quiet Place, Megan Miranda; and

Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons, John Paul Brammer.

Books read:

I have finished 20 books so far this year, 7 of them this past week:

Stillhouse Lake, Rachel Caine;

Those Who Prey, Jennifer Moffett;

Lumberjanes #41 and #42 by Shannon Watters et al;

The Cold Is In Her Bones, Peternelle van Arsdale;

The Ravens, Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige; and

Light For the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope, Kwame Alexander.

Current reads:

I am a little over halfway through Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth for one of my book clubs, and I have started reading Lindy West’s Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman, which I am aiming to finish today.

Posts and reviews:

I’ve been busy with the blog this year!

I’ve posted my December Quick Lit and my 2020 End of Year Survey.

I also shared a Top Ten Tuesday post and a Waiting on Wednesday post.

I’ve also posted 7 reviews:

One of the Good Ones, Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite;

The Push, Ashley Audrain;

The Cousins, Karen M. McManus;

Admission, Julie Buxbaum;

The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins;

Kind of a Big Deal, Shannon Hale; and

Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror, Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (Eds.).