Monthly-Wrap Up Post! January 2024
Hello to the readers who somehow stumbled upon this blog, I'm Paige, and this welcome to my very first wrap-up post! Well, technically, I did one back in May when I first started blogging, but it was weirdly formatted and tedious to read. Hopefully this one will be better.
I'll be covering the books I read this month, reading statistics, posts I wrote, my favorite posts from other book blogs, and non-reading stuff at the end. Let's get started!
books I read
I read 15 books this month! I'm pretty surprised, but almost half of them were novellas. I'd never read a novella before in my whole life, but this month I really ended up liking them and read seven! Here are micro-reviews of the the ten most intriguing ones.
"The Inmate" by Freida McFadden
"Resting Scrooge Face" by Meghan Quinn
"A Night at the Tropicana" By Chanel Cleeton
"The Reunion" by Meghan Quinn
"Capsule" by Mel Torrefranca
"The Rise" by Ian Rankin
"10:59" by N. R. Baker
"Buzz Books 2024"
"Why Would I Lie?" by Adi Rule
"Signal Moon" by Kate Quinn
reading statistics
I'm using this Lazy Reader Spreadsheet from Shut Up, Shealea because all the other spreadsheets have like 25 rows for each book and I read too often to fill that out for each book. This spreadsheet, though, has only ten, which is a lot more manageable. Another cool thing is that it gives me monthly statistics, so I'll share those with you!
Books Read: 15
Pages Read: 3,830
Average Rating: 4.11
posts I published
So remember in my 2024 conclusion post I said "I didn't really have a posting schedule last year, but I'm preparing my January posting schedule to ensure I'll publish reviews weekly. This isn't an empty promise." Well... it may have turned out to be an empty promise.
That being said, I'm actually pretty happy with the content I posted this month. I know it wasn't weekly, but what I did end up posting wasn't bad.
Thank you, everyone, and happy new year!
my review of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
January 2024 Reading Challenges Updates
favorite posts from other blogs
Some of the other book blogs out there are really good!
- Most Disappointing Books of 2023 </3 was a fun post to read by Eli @ Acereader!
- Dini @ Dinipandareads did this amazing Characters of the Year book tag that I want to try.
- Required reading posted an interesting book review that piqued my interest in sci-fi
- For people who like me who are curious about the hype surrounding Britney Spears' new book but don't want to read the whole thing, this review by A Literary Escape was perfect.
- Book'd out talked about new additions to her shelf in this Bookshelf Bounty post, and I added a bunch of them to my TBR!
non-reading related stuff
I will be honest, I'm not sure what to write here. January was a pretty uneventful month. I think it still feels like 2023 because I'm easing into my goals, starting small, and February is usually when I start to focus more on things. That's my excuse for procrastinating, at least.
School has been pretty easy. Last quarter, I got all A+'s but in this one class I got an A. I really don't wan't to sound like a perfectionist (believe me, I'm not) but that was so sad! I have a habit of letting my grades drop near the middle of the quarter and rushing to pull it back up in the end.
I also did a debate tournament! It went surprisingly well, and I'm competing in another debate comp on February 11th. The thing is, this new one is supposed to be more prestigious, and I'm woefully unprepared. I'll let you know how it turns out.