February 2024 Reading Wrap-Up
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January 2024 Reading Wrap-Up
Current Kindle Unlimited Books
You can borrow quite a few Kindle books from Kindle Unlimited … BUT only 25 at a time. Or, well, 25 slots at a time (if you borrow a title and it has an audiobook component as well, it counts for two slots). Right now, I have saved/borrowed my max amount, which comes out to 22 titles.
My reading genres are all over the place! I don’t even remember any longer why I borrowed some of these titles, and to be honest, I have a zillion books in my Kindle account and on my TBR on Goodreads.
I’m hoping that by calling attention to them, I’ll be more motivated to start working my way through them. Plus, I find it helpful to see the covers somewhere. I’m very much a mood reader and seeing the covers makes it more enticing to read the novel vs. seeing a list of titles.
Of these books, the one I am reading right now is Love Lettering. In this book, a hand-letterer who makes custom journals and planners (sounds like someone from the Planners Gone Wild community!) “accidentally” puts a hidden message in a couple’s wedding announcement, indicating that the relationship won’t last. About a year later, the intended groom comes back and confronts her about the hidden message. As it turns out, he never got married. I picked this one mostly because the main character was a planner girl and did hand-lettering and that made me think about my friend, Cindy Guentert-Baldo and my other friends from PGW.
That (and, apparently 16 other books) are what I’m working through right now. As for you, do you use Kindle Unlimited? What are some titles on your TBR?
The Great American Novel Puzzle Reading Challenge!
We wanted to pick up a new puzzle to work on, after *finally* finishing the Thomas Kincaid puzzle that was a pastel, fuzzy-edged nightmare to complete. We wanted something brightly colored, easy, and fun. This puzzle of 50 Great American Novels was just the thing! In fact, we started and completed it in one day!
After we finished it, we decided that it would be fun to turn this experience into a challenge. We both want to read more literature and classics, and enjoy reading books together. We also think it would be fun to explore them more academically and Donald suggested that we could even write little book reports on them and discuss the major themes and ideas that resonated with us.
We have each read a selection of the books already, but decided for the purposes of this challenge, we would re-read books and read them at the same time as each other.
Books Jenn has previously read:
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Books Donald has previously read:
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
We love making choices using random methods. For selecting which book to read next (and subsequent books), we took a photo of the poster that came with the puzzle, printed it out, cut each book apart, folded it up and stuck it in a large jar, which Donald then proceeded to vigorously shake around. Then, I picked one without looking, and we unfolded it together.
Our first read is going to be Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut!
Keep an eye out for our review of this book after we have completed it!
The Reading Rush 2020
July 20-26, 2020
Ariel Bissett created the “BookTubeAThon” readathon in 2013. It has grown from there and is now known as “The Reading Rush.” It is a week-long readathon with some challenges and giveaways if you participate online. I’m always up for reading and challenges!
The Reading Challenges
- Read a book with a cover that matches the color of your birth stone.
- Read a book that starts with the word “the”.
- Read a book that inspired a movie you’ve already seen.
- Read the first book you touch.
- Read a book completely outside of your house.
- Any challenge can be interpreted creatively to fit the needs of the reader. For this one, they issued a statement about this challenge in the context of a worldwide pandemic.
- Read a book in a genre that you’ve already wanted to read more of.
- Read a book that takes place on a different continent than where you live.
My Lineup
- “88 Days to Kandahar” by Robert L. Grenier
- This one fulfills #4. I reached over to my unread bookshelf with my eyes closed and this is the book I picked.
- One line synopsis: “The improbable true story of America’s first war in Afghanistan.”
- “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw
- This one fulfills #3 and #6. I always want to read more classics, but find it hard to select them when I’m looking for my next read.
- This book inspired the 1999 movie, “She’s All That.”
- One line synopsis: “All of them deal with a man creating a beautiful and perfect woman out of something imperfect, and then falling in love with her.”
- This looks to be the shortest book at 98 pages, so it’s likely the one I will use for #5. I’ll try to read this one outside vs. modifying the challenge. I may have to buy a comfy outdoor chair….
- “The Memory Key” by Liana Liu
- This one fulfills #2.
- One line synopsis: “Remember everything. Forgive nothing.”
- “War Girls” by Tochi Onyebuchi
- This one fulfills #1 and #7. My birthstone is an aqua/turquoise color. This book takes place in a future Nigeria.
- One line synopsis: “In a post-apocalyptic Nigeria plagued by violence and political unrest, two sisters dream of peace, hope, and a future together.”
Other Fun Activities
Read-In on Wednesday, July 22, at 6 pm.
Reading Rush Book Club: “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid. I’ve already read this book, but I might join the book discussion live show on July 25 at 2 pm EDT. For the book club, they will be using hashtags #rrsuchafunage and #rrbookclub on social media.
LOTR Buddy Read: Fellowship Ch. 1-7
Several of my friends mentioned that they were going to read or re-read The Lord of the Rings series this summer, so I has been on my mind to re-read them myself. I have read them, but it’s been quite some time and I’m not overly familiar with the plot or all of the characters.
However, it wasn’t until my friend, Katie, started posting as she read on Facebook that I was really motivated to read it now. I’m quite far behind her (she’s already on Return of the King, and for me, Frodo and company are just leaving Tom Bombadil’s house), so I spent some time creeping on her Facebook page to see what her comments were at each point. This will make my buddy-read a little asynchronous.
(A quick comment about formatting…. I think I’d like – for myself – to write these out on my blog, so that I can reference them later in their entirety. However, I’ll also be cross-posting to Facebook, to allow others to participate/comment as they wish. Because I love sharing stories with others. There will be spoilers and, in general, these will be my initial reactions vs. anything really well thought out.)
Chapter 1: A Long-Expected Party
I’m not really sure what to think of Bilbo; he seems rather rude and condescending to other hobbits. At some point in the distant past, I’ve read these books before, but not particularly attentively. I’ve watched some of the movies (but still haven’t made it through The Hobbit) and the scene where Gandalf is trying to get Bilbo to leave the Ring felt more oppressive and ominous than in the book version. Bilbo is kind of a jerk with the presents he left – highlighting flaws in others.
(My first encounter with Bilbo was when we were assigned The Hobbit to read in the 7th grade. I didn’t want to read it and I kept calling him Biblo.)
Chapter 2: The Shadow of the Past
It was a little surprising to me that Frodo got to be 50 years old before his adventure began. Also, if hobbits’ lifespans aren’t that much longer than humans’, why don’t Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin have wives and families? Gandalf seems to be far more cautious about drawing conclusions than I am. Was Sméagol always evil/selfish/murderous, or was that just the influence of the Ring? The Ring seems to corrupt more quickly and more fully the more the owner wears it and uses its powers.
Chapter 3: Three is Company
What of the morality of Frodo selling Bag End to the Sackville-Bagginses, when he knew that the Enemy was coming after the Ring and knew the name “Baggins”? The Sackville-Bagginses may have been grasping after Bag End for some time, but did they deserve death?
Frodo kind of complains a lot – his heavy pack, how much weight he will lose on the journey – before they even begin. Is he really this self-absorbed, or is he more nervous than he lets on?
Sam seems to be portrayed as a bit bumbling and naive, but he’s shouldering adversity and change remarkably well.
I do not trust these cloaked riders sniffing around. Why are they deterred by the Elves?
Chapter 4: A Short Cut to Mushrooms
Sam is shown to be more thoughtful and perceptive than he was initially made out to be. I’m kind of getting a Mary vibe from him. Frodo is the focus and Sam is happy to support him however he can and ponders things within his heart.
All of their songs remind me of the cadences sung at march in the military.
Already, we can see how much Frodo needs his friends – Pippin gave good advice about the road being quicker (that fortuitously wasn’t taken) and helped immeasurably with Farmer Maggot.
Mrs. Maggot was a little funny with gifting Frodo a basket of mushrooms when he used to steal their mushrooms as a youth. Maybe Bilbo wasn’t so much of a jerk before, and hobbits just like to give snarky presents?
Chapter 5: A Conspiracy Unmasked
I low key love all of Frodo’s friends right now, when they tell him they know all about his mission and refuse to let him go into danger alone.
What is the tall, white tower that Frodo dreams of?
I’m kinda mad at Frodo for not having left earlier. I know, it increases the plot tension….
Katie
Hmmm…. I get where Katie’s coming from. As a third-party observer, we are sitting here with our popcorn, yelling at him to get going before the Enemy catches up with him. But, I think it makes a lot of sense for Frodo to drag his heels here. Hobbits are the homebodies of the fantasy creatures in this world, so leaving Hobbiton has to be hard for him – I get that he wants to stay as long as possible and drink it all in, especially if he thinks it’s likely he may never return.
Birthday celebrations and gift-giving seems to be a pretty big part of hobbit culture, so I get why he wants to have one more birthday at home.
Chapter 6: The Old Forest
“They do say the trees do actually move…” – Ents?
“But the hobbits came and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest…” – now I’m a little horrified. How did the trees and the hobbits become enemies? Who was the first aggressor?
It’s funny how the forest herded them. Sam catching on that their sudden sleepiness is suspicious – he’s a smart cookie!
Tom Bombadil sings and the trees obey. The hobbits arrive at Tom’s house and are bathed in a golden light. He’s such an interesting character. I’m not sure what to make of him.
Chapter 7: In the House of Tom Bombadil
Frodo: “Who is Tom Bombadil?” Goldberry: “He is.”
Tower in the middle of a circular plain, an old man and an eagle – Frodo’s dreams seem prophetic.
Very odd were Tom’s interactions with the Ring. Frodo just gave it over (with no resistance) and Tom didn’t become invisible when he put it on. Tom seems to be able to see Frodo when Frodo has the Ring on.
I’m a little confused over the significance of this interlude at Tom’s house. What am I missing?
Do I Have That Book? Challenge
A lot of people on YouTube are doing this Do I Have That Book? Challenge. The premise is that you have a list of 20 questions and you have to search your bookshelves to find books that meet the criteria within the shortest amount of time.
Original Tag Video from Keeping Tabs: https://youtu.be/e4YnTYrGs48
But I found it by watching Kayla from Books and Lala, Jesse from Jesse the Reader, and Lala and Emma from Emmmabooks.
Challenge Questions:
1. Do you have a book with deckled edges?
2. Do you have a book with 3 or more people on the cover?
3. Do you have a book based on another fictional story?
4. Do you have a book with a title 10 letters long?
5. Do you have a book with a title that starts and ends with the same letter?
6. Do you have a Mass Market Paperback book?
7. Do you have a book written by an author using a pen name?
8. Do you have a book with a character’s name in the title?
9. Do you have a book with 2 maps in it?
10. Do you have a book that was turned into a TV show?
11. Do you have a book written by someone who is originally famous for something else? (celebrity/athlete/politician/tv personality…)
12. Do you have a book with a clock on the cover?
13. Do you have a poetry book?
14. Do you have a book with an award stamp on it?
15. Do you have a book written by an author with the same initials as you?
16. Do you have a book of short stories?
17. Do you have a book that is between 500-510 pages long?
18. Do you have a book that was turned into a movie?
19. Do you have a graphic novel?
20. Do you have a book written by 2 or more authors?
Video is not my preferred medium, but I did complete this challenge. Here are my receipts:
1. Do you have a book with deckled edges? 
The Afterlife of Holly Chase
by Cynthia Hand
Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
3. Do you have a book based on another fictional story? 
The Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Executive Orders by Tom Clancy
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
9. Do you have a book with 2 maps in it? Yes! Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff has several maps throughout!
10. Do you have a book that was turned into a TV show? Not that I could find during the challenge, although after the fact, I probably could have also used City of Bones for this prompt, too.
Living with Honor by Salvatore A. Giunta
Famous for being awarded the Medal of Honor
12. Do you have a book with a clock on the cover? Not that I could find.
13. Do you have a poetry book? Not that I could find.
14. Do you have a book with an award stamp on it? I’m sure I do somewhere, but after spending too much time looking, I gave up.
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke
17. Do you have a book that is between 500-510 pages long? 
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
The Martian by Andy Weir
19. Do you have a graphic novel? 
Gronk by Katie Cook
20. Do you have a book written by 2 or more authors? 
Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
I finished my challenge in 12 minutes, 18 seconds and had a score of 16/20! Please link your video/post in the comments; I’d love to see how you did!
Save the Dates! Reread-a-thon: March 10-16, 2019!
In a hurry? Skip below for the details of the challenges and giveaways…
Make sure to follow the Reread-a-thon Twitter! @rereadathon2019
If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you’ll know that I’m a competitive person. Mostly with myself, but I’m always game to join a challenge.
I’ve also been a bookworm my entire life. Growing up, it was rare to see me without a book. My mom would have to chase me out of the house to make me play and experience the sunshine. Of course, my mom was also a big reader (and still is!) and taught me to read at the dinner table and basically any time I had a free moment.
One huge difference between our reading styles is that my mom does not hang on to any books. She reads them, then gets rid of them. If she accidentally picks up a book that she’s read before, she will toss it aside as soon as she realizes it.
I’m the complete opposite.
Characters in books are beloved friends and I enjoy revisiting them often. I’ve read The Martian about 30 times, so you know that Mark Watney and I are tight. 🙂
When I heard that Merphy Napier was organizing a Reread-a-thon, I knew that I had to be a part of this! I jumped at the opportunity to host a day and can’t wait to participate alongside my co-hosts throughout the week! This is going to be so much fun!
The Details
The Reread-a-thon will take place from March 10-16, 2019.
Challenges:
There are seven challenges over the seven days, but you are not required to read seven books! You can double or triple the challenges for books, or, you don’t even have to do the challenges!! This is all for fun, so read a much or as little as you want 🙂
- Giving a Book a Second Chance
- A Recent Favorite
- An Old Favorite
- A Game Changing Book
- An Underrated/Unpopular Book
- A Childhood Favorite
- A Popular Book
Hosts:
Make sure to follow the hosts of the day on each platform (Blog, Insta, and YouTube) to enter giveaways! (Prizes and how to enter will be determined by each host – make sure to follow them and follow the Reread-a-thon on Twitter @Rereadathon2019, for updates, reading sprints, and more!)
Sunday, March 10 – Game Changer
A book that opened your eyes to / made you love a new genre.
- Blog: Emma
- Instagram: Shae Haslam
- YouTube: Elliot Brooks
Monday, March 11 – Giving a Book a Second Chance
- Blog: Adrianna
- Instagram: Aali Hashim
- YouTube: Rebecca Akins
Tuesday, March 12 – New Favorite
- Blog: Robin Karr
- Instagram: Beccie Weaver
- YouTube: NotSoAverageJo
Wednesday, March 13 – Old Favorite
- Blog: Joanna Johnson
- Instagram: Nora Eliana (or Elia)
- YouTube: Merphy Napier
Thursday, March 14 – Underrated/Unpopular Book
- Blog: Kyle Marie McMahon
- Instagram: Brianna Davis
- YouTube: Becca
Friday, March 15 – Popular Book
- Blog: Cecelia Baltich-Schecter
- Instagram: George Bryant
- YouTube: Sophie
Saturday, March 16 – Childhood Favorite
- Blog: Jennie Miller
- Instagram: Nashelie Sanchez
- YouTube: Jay
Happy Re-reading!
Books Read in January 2019
After nearly a month off, I am back to work and my days are falling into a familiar rhythm. I’m fairly pleased with the reading I’ve done this month. Quite a bit of Jennifer L. Armentrout – more than anticipated!
Stats
This month, I read 9 books, with a total of 3,897 pages! That’s just one book off my 10 book/month goal, if I’m going to meet my Goodreads goal of 120 books read this year. Pretty good so far!
That’s about 125.7 pages/day.
- 2 ★★★★★
- 4 ★★★★
- 3 ★★★
- 0 ★★
- 0 ★
- Average Star Rating: 3.9
- 0 Children’s books vs. 9 YA/Adult
- 4 E-books vs. 2 Audio vs. 3 Physical books
- This is not terribly surprising to me, as I am back to work and spend a lot of time commuting or away from home.
- I read 18/31 days reading on my Kindle in January.
- It’s kind of interesting that all 3 of my physical books this month are a hue of blue.
- 0 e-ARCs; 0 Library books; 8 Owned books; 1 Subscription book – To be fair the library was closed for much of the month for some renovations.
Books Read
I’ve added the book reviews as links below, to try and shorten the length of the monthly wrap-up posts, and hopefully encourage me to post them as I finish reading throughout the month, instead of waiting and having a pile to do all at once. Let me know what you think of the new format in the comments. Thanks!
- Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- “Sporks are only used in the most dire situations.”
- Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills
- This was a really cute read! I loved the friend group and the dynamic between each of the friends. I felt that the characterization was well done. The banter in this book was great!
- (Longer review to come.)
- Wicked by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Oblivion by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- “That’s all I ever need to hear.” “Those three words?” she asked. “Always those three words.”
- The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
- The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
- The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
- “No matter how old you are, no matter how ready you think you are, nothing quite prepares you for the loss of a parent.”
January TBR Books I Didn’t Get To
- Burying Water by K. A. Tucker
- This one almost doesn’t count, since I finished it at 3 am on February 1st.
- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
- This is a long book! It makes it more difficult to read in bed and carry around with me, so I didn’t get as much of a chance to read it. Then, I would start another book while away from home and want to finish that read.
- I’m currently only 61 pages into it and still figuring things out. I’m sure once I know what’s going on, I’ll pick up the pace and knock this one out.
2018 Reading Stats
My Goodreads Year in Books! <– You can click here to see Goodreads stats for me without my commentary. LOL!
Book and Page Stats
I beat my reading goal by 113%, which was nice. I wasn’t scrambling too hard at the end, even though I had a pretty big reading slump earlier in the year that could have thrown me off my game.
115 books translates into an average of 9.6 books per month; or one book every 3.2 days.
Below is a graphical representation of the number of books that I read per month. You can see that in the first half of the year, I wasn’t really reading too much. Still a decent pace, but for me, it was a slump. June – no books? Really? In August, I was introduced to BookTube and it reinvigorated my love for reading.
Looking at my reading trends over the past several years, you can see that in 2013, I had my biggest reading year, with 200 books read. My goddaughter was born in 2013, and I was reading and reviewing a *lot* of children’s books for her.
Looking at page counts over the past several years, you can see how I stopped reading so many short children’s books and started reading more adult or YA books. So, while I had read almost twice the number of books in 2013, my page count in 2018 is greater.
I don’t know why Goodreads has my page count as 33,843 in one graphic and 33,926 in another. Perhaps they are counting some of the pages in books that I have started and marked as “In Progress?”
For the sake of my calculations, I’ll use the smaller number of pages. I averaged 2,820 pages per month, and 93 pages per day.
My shortest book was one of my goddaughter, Gabby’s, books.
My longest book was “Winter’s Tale” that I felt like I listened to via Audible a lifetime ago. Was that really just last year?
My average book length was 294 pages, which is pretty good!
Star Rating Stats
These are my books broken down by star rating. I did give the majority of my reads 4 stars. They have to really move me to be given 5 stars. I give out 3 and 4 stars fairly easily, and feel a little bad about giving out a 2 or 1 star rating.
According to Goodreads built-in rating scale 2 is “OK” and 3 is “I like it,” but I tend to see 2s as more “meh/not for me” and 3s as more “it was OK.” For me to give out a 1 star, I have to really not like the book for some reason.
If you can see the little thumbnails, yes, I do have two copies of “The Martian” on my 5 star row. This is because I read a copy on my Kindle and I listened to the audiobook separately (not concurrently). I have now read “The Martian” about 29 times and my brother keeps trying to ban me from ever reading it again. So, I purchased the French translation copy, “Seul Sur Mars,” which should be arriving from Amazon France at the end of January 2019. 🙂 (Also, thanks to Emmmabooks for showing me that I can and should buy and read copies of my favorite books in multiple languages!)
This year, my only 1 star was “Clear” by Jessica Park. It was good for the first 50 pages or so, then went off the rails in a bad way and had a horrible plot resolution. Horrible. Implausible and – are you serious? It took me forever to finish the book and I’m surprised that I slogged through. This doesn’t say anything about Jessica Park’s other books, which I have really enjoyed.
“Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes,” I just couldn’t get into. This isn’t to say that I might not pick it up at some point in the future and like it. I just wasn’t feeling it at the time. This is why I put it on my DNF shelf, but didn’t give it a star rating.
This sounds like a high average for me. But looking at the graphic, it looks like I lucked out with a pretty significantly high number of 5 star books. Also, the lack of 2 and 1 stars….
I wonder if I should adjust my scoring for next year and move some of my 2.5 stars down to 2?
The Popularity Contest
This did not surprise me. I thought ACOMAF was fantastic! 🙂
I was fairly surprised that “The Girl on the Train” was the most popular book on my shelf. I was *not* surprised about “Gabriella the Superhero,” as I had to add that title to the database. 🙂 Before “Gabriella,” by next Least Popular title was “Exploring Seeds” – a children’s non-fiction title that I picked up late in the summer when I thought that I was going to do the Harry Potter OWL and NEWT challenges (Herbology, yo!). Alas, I didn’t complete the challenges.
However, I did learn something about my reading habits: I am a mood reader. I will *not* read it if I do not “feel” like it at the time. This actually surprises me somewhat, since I am normally very competitive and generally find challenges to be compelling.
In fact, this changed the way I viewed my goals for 2019. This year, I am not going to sign up for a lot of very strict challenges (like PopSugar or the Quarterly YA challenges with 10 categories every 3 months).
I find that if I try to constrain what books I can read too much, I’ll end up not reading at all. So my goals are more fluid.
To help me reach my goals – and for a fun way for me to track my reading – I purchased “The Bookworm Life” planner from my friend, Monica. It is adorable! You can buy it from her on Etsy, using the link above. (She also has lots of adorable bookish stickers for your calendar, bullet journal, or planner!)
More Random Stats
- 48 authors I have read before, but 67 were new-to-me. (I counted the first book in a series as a new author and subsequent books as read-before.)
- I read 50 books across 27 different series. Of those, I’ve completed (as far as I know) 6 of the series, and would continue with 14 of the series. I really get attached to characters and worlds and like to live in them as long as I can, so series are really attractive to me.
- Asylum (1)
- Blood of Eden (1)*
- Breathing (4) – Completed.
- Bright Side (1) – Completed.
- Choose Your Own Adventure (1)
- A Court of Thorns and Roses (4) – Completed.
- Crazy Rich Asians (2)*
- Dash and Lily (1)*
- Disney’s Frozen (1)
- The Gender Game (7) – Completed.
- Hush, Hush (1)
- Illuminae Files (1)*
- Kitchen Princess (1)
- Lisbon’s Misadventures (1)
- Lux (3)*
- Malory Family (1)*
- Marked Men (2)*
- Origin (1)*
- The Raven Cycle (1)*
- The Selection (1) – Completed.
- Star Darlings (1)*
- Uglies (5) – Completed.
- The Vanderbeekers (1)
- Warcross (1)*
- Wayward Children (3)*
- Xanth (2)*
- You (1)*
- 65 books I own in some form vs. 50 books I borrowed or read as part of a subscription service (like Scribd or Kindle Unlimited).
- I re-read 7 books:
- 100 Ghosts by Doogie Horner (Super cute Halloween read)
- Jesus-Shock by Peter Kreeft (for A-Z challenge)
- The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey (Fave from teen years)
- The Martian by Andy Wier (LOVE!)
- Once and Always by Judith McNaught (LOVE!)
- Xone of Contention by Piers Anthony (for A-Z challenge)
- Zombie Lover by Piers Anthony (for A-Z challenge)
- 18 books published in 2018.
Thanks!
A big thank you to Kayla from Books and Lala, who inspired me to spend *hours* making this long-winded blog post for y’all! I’m tired, but happy to see all my reading stats for 2018!
If you’ve made it this far, you’re a rock star! Please link your blog/vlog posts in comments, so I can see your end-of-year wrap up!
Paroxysm of Giggles / Critical Mass 