So, January’s done, hey? It was a solid start to my year in terms of reading and blogging. Still sad about the state of Twitter. Now that Tweetbot’s gone (RIP), I find it less useful than ever. Grateful to everyone who checks out these posts even if they never see my tweets!
Books Finished
- Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang
- Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino
- Poppy & Ereth by Avi
- Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
- Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Lee Fetell
Books Reviewed
- Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Fodi (MG fantasy)
- Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom by Sangu Mandanna (MG portal fantasy)
- Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston (MG contemporary fantasy)
- Taking Up Space by Alyson Gerber (MG contemporary)
Posts Written
- Highlighted Cybils 2022 finalists for middle grade speculative fiction, along with my Dec 2021 month in review
- Reflected on the year past and my goals for 2023 in one of my oldest blogging traditions, Wrapping Up 2022, Looking Forward 2023
- Pulled back the curtain on my blog statistics with an in depth post, Let’s Talk About Stats: Views, Comments, LIkes, & Referrers
- Shared my 10 most anticipated books releasing in the first half of 2023 for Top Ten Tuesday
- Removed +30 books from my TBR as part of my New Year TBR Tidy
- Reviewed Poppy & Ereth and picked four 2018 releases for you to choose one of my February reads from in “I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #19 (voting now closed)
- Shared 10 books on the Shikoku Pilgrimage for Top 10 Tuesday
Shared on Twitter
On My Radar in February
Representation indicated below AFAIK (I haven’t read these books).
- 21 Feb – Release date of Izzy at the End of the World by K.A. Reynolds (MG speculative fiction, autistic protagonist)
- 28 Feb – Release date of The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson (MG spooky, non-binary protagonist) and She is a Haunting by Trang Tranh Tran (YA spooky, bisexual Vietnamese American protagonist)
How was your January? What new books, or bookish events, are you looking forward to this month?
Looks like you had a great month! I really want to read She is a Haunting, I’ll be looking for your review😁
Thanks Tammy! My library actually has that one order, so I should be able to get it to it by spring, haha.