Well, we made it through the first month of the new year! Reading-wise, there have been some amazing books published already this year and it looks like there are a whole lot more to come...which is good. My big goal this year is to try to have a good mix of current books and old ones. I have quite a few backlist review books that for whatever reason I never got to and I am going to really try to make an effort to get to them this year. I managed to read 7 of them this month - mainly because a few of them happened to be buddy read picks, which helped tremendously - but whatever the case, I am on a mission to work through these books. I tried doing this last year, but pre-selected some books - this year, I am just setting a goal of at least 21. And of course, there are also the books I own...I am forever trying to mix those in, which I do manage, so that I don't stress about too much.
Do you have any book-related goals for the year?
Reading Stats:
- Read this month: 26
- Year to date: 26
Books Read:
- Revolver Road -- Christi Daugherty
- Long Bright River -- Liz Moore (audio book)
- A Stranger at the Door -- Jason Pinter (audio book)
- The Butterfly House -- Katrine Engberg (audio book)
- The Plot -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
- And Now She's Gone -- Rachel Howzell Hall (audio book)
- Before She Disappeared -- Lisa Gardner (audio book)
- The Coast-to-Coast Murders -- James Patterson, J.D. Barker (audio book)
- The Lady Upstairs -- Halley Sutton
- What Could Be Saved -- Liese O'Halloran Schwarz (e-book)
- Yellow Wife -- Sadeqa Johnson (audio book)
- A Hundred Suns -- Karin Tanabe (audio book)
- Blink of an Eye -- Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen (audio book)
- More Than Words -- Jill Santopolo
- The Jane Austen Diet -- Jane Austen, Bryan Kozlowski
- After Everything -- Andrea Nourse (audio book)
- Wild Swan -- Patti Callahan (audio book)
- The Light We Lost -- Jill Santopolo
- Our Darkest Night -- Jennifer Robson
- Watch Over Me -- Nina LaCour
- Until We Are Lost -- Leslie Archer
- Undiscovered Country -- Kelly O'Connor McNees (audio book)
- The Last Garden in England -- Julia Kelly (audio book)
- UNSUB -- Meg Gardiner
- Every Waking Hour -- Joanna Schaffhauser
- The Owl Always Hunts at Night -- Samuel Bjork
Favorite Books of January:
- Long Bright River by Liz Moore
- The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
This year I am all about the numbers. I decided that I am not doing any challenges, but I am going to pay attention to my own stats. This may or may not change as the year goes on...we shall see.
Books read that were published this year: 11
And of those, how many were review books: 11
Backlist review books read: 7
Books read off my own shelf (not review books): 6
Books bought/won in giveaways: 6