Read Between the Spines

January Reading Wrap-Up

I am that person who loves data, charts, and lists. So every month, I recap what I read and what books I acquire along with anything else I think is of value or interest. Let me know if you have any ideas!

My year started off a bit slow in terms of reading. The blame for this lies squarely on the shoulders of my job. I have been working outside normal hours and working for such long periods of time that my eyes are exhausted by the time I am ready to do non-work related things. Add in a short reading slump, and I only read a total of 7 books in January.

I liked most of my January reads, but the overall quality was pretty low. I am hoping to prioritize more books in February that I think I will love.

Breakdown

• Books read: 7

• Pages read: 2,522

• Time listened: 4 hours, 27 minutes

• Percent female authors: 71.4%

• Percent BIPOC authors: 14.3%

Books read

  • Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan|⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
  • Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliott | ⭐💫
  • Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver| ⭐⭐
  • Anna O by Matthew Blake | ⭐⭐
  • Northwoods by Amy Pease | ⭐⭐⭐
  • The Woods by Harlan Coben | ⭐⭐⭐
  • River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure | ⭐⭐⭐💫

Books in progress

I started two books in January that I plan to finish in February

  • Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer 🎧
  • Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Ruth Verona

Books acquired

I acquired the following books this month:

Book of the Month

  • First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
  • Northwoods by Amy Pease
  • More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter
  • Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin
  • The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

Aardvark Book Club

  • Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare

Gifted Physical Copies

  • Argylle by Elle Conway (Pub: 1/2)
  • Here in Avalon by Tara Isabella Burton (Pub: 1/2)
  • Madness: Race & Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton (Pub: 1/23)
  • My Friends by Hisham Matar (Pub: 1/9)
  • Say You’ll Be Mine by Naina Kumar (Pub: 1/16)
  • Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Naina Kumar (Pub: 1/23)
  • Last Acts by Alexander Sammartino (Pub: 1/23)
  • Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton (Pub: 1/30)
  • Prima Facie by Suzie Miller (Pub: 1/30)
  • Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spuffors (Pub: 2/6)
  • The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan (Pub: 2/13)
  • Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble by Deesha Dyer (Pub: 4/23)
  • The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Pub: 5/7)
  • Middletide by Sarah Crouch (Pub: 6/11)

NetGalley Approvals

  • The Gathering by C.J. Tudor (Pub: 4/9)
  • The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren (Pub: 5/14)
  • The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron (Pub: 6/4)
  • Triple Sec by T.J. Alexander (Pub: 6/4)
  • The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center (Pub: 6/11)
  • Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller (Pub: 6/18)
  • All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Pub: 6/25)
  • It Had to Be You by Eliza Jane Brazier (Pub: 7/16)

Book Events

  • One of the Good Guys by Aminta Hall
  • Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
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