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Tagging @susannadlpena @spaceshipkat @eliniei @katokeeffe @thoughtsontomes and @siderealscion
Given that I have a reading goal of 150 books this year, I think I’ve gotten off to a good start this January! I read 12 books, which is right on track according to Goodreads! For the books I’ve read but haven’t reviewed, the date on the graphic is for the month read. For the books I’m reviewing, the date is when you can plan to see the review. Don’t forget to check out advance reviews for these on my Patreon or hang out here in February to see the reviews on the blog!
Date Started: January 1st, 2019
Date Finished: January 1st, 2019
Format: Print
Reason: Teaching in Spring 2019
Genre: Drama
Date Started: January 3rd, 2019
Date Finished: January 4th, 2019
Format: Audiobook
Reason: For Fun
Genre: YA Contemporary
Review: Available Now (Patrons) or 2/6 (Blog)
Date Started: January 14th, 2019
Date Finished: January 14th, 2019
Format: PDF
Reason: Read for Fieldwork in Folklore Seminar
Genre: Nonfiction
Date Started: January 8th, 2019
Date Finished: January 17th, 2019
Format: Print
Reason: Teaching in Spring 2019
Genre: Drama
Date Started: January 15th, 2019
Date Finished: January 17th, 2019
Format: EBook
Reason: Read for Pregnancy and Procreation in Russian Literature and Film Seminar
Genre: Short Story
Date Started: January 5th, 2019
Date Finished: January 21st, 2019
Format: Audiobook
Reason: For Fun
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Review: Available 2/3 (Patrons) or 2/10 (Blog)
Date Started: January 1st, 2019
Date Finished: January 22nd, 2019
Format: Print
Reason: Teaching Spring 2019
Genre: Adult Contemporary
Date Started: January 18th, 2019
Date Finished: January 23rd, 2019
Format: eBook
Reason: Read for Readings in Ethnography Seminar
Genre: Nonfiction
Date Started: January 21st, 2019
Date Finished: January 27th, 2019
Format: Audiobook
Reason: For Fun
Genre: YA Fantasy
Review: Available 2/13 (Patrons) or 2/20 (Blog)
Date Started: January 5th, 2019
Date Finished: January 30th, 2019
Format: Print
Reason: For Qualifying Exams/For Fun/First Friday Fairy Tales
Genre: YA Fantasy
Review: Available 2/1
Date Started: January 28th, 2019
Date Finished: January 28th, 2019
Format: eBook
Reason: For Fun
Genre: Poetry
Date Started: January 31st, 2019
Date Finished: January 31st, 2019
Format: Audiobook
Reason: For Fun
Genre: YA Fantasy
Review: Available 2/17 (Patrons) or 2/24 (Blog)
I’ve got a lot of great reads coming up next month, too, so stay tuned for my reading wrap-up at the end of February!
Date Started: October 1st, 2018
Date Finished: October 5th, 2018
Reason: Read for my Contemporary Perspectives on Myth Class
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Date Started: October 5th, 2018
Date Finished: October 6th, 2018
Reason: Diverse Reading Challenge
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Date Started: October 9th, 2018
Date Finished: October 9th, 2018
Reason: Diverse Reading Challenge; Read for my Contemporary Perspectives on Myth Class
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Date Started: October 15th, 2018
Date Finished: October 17th, 2018
Reason: Winner of Recommendation Day!
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Review: Click Here
Date Started: October 20th, 2018
Date Finished: October 21st, 2018
Reason: Diverse Reading Challenge
Genre: Adult Fiction
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Date Started: October 15th, 2018
Date Finished: October 31st, 2018
Reason: I’ve been dying to read this for months! I also met Anna-Marie at Sirens this year.
Genre: YA Magical Realism
Rating: TBD
Review: Coming Soon
Date Started: October 8th, 2018
Date Finished: October 24th, 2018
Reason: Read for my Applied Folklore class
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 3/5
Date Started: August 9th, 2018
Date Finished: October 24th, 2018
Reason: Teaching this Semester
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Rating: 5/5
Date Started: October 16th, 2018
Date Finished: October 30th, 2018
Reason: Read for my Contemporary Perspectives on Myth Class (it was written by my professor)
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 3/5
I was tagged by @chaoslaborantin! Thanks, I’ve been meaning to do something like this!
1. Best book you’ve read so far this year:
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
2. Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2018
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (this and Down Among the Sticks and Bones are the only “sequels” I’ve read so far this year).
3. New release you haven’t read yet but want to
Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed; Everless by Sara Holland; and Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne
4. Most anticipated releases of the second-half of the year.
Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore; Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse; and A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
5. Biggest disappointment
Absolutely Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I was optimistic going in, but I was hopping mad by the end of the book. I was also really sad that I didn’t like Wintersong, because it had so many things about it that I should have liked, but it wasn’t clicking for me.
6. Biggest Surprise
Caraval by Stephanie Garber! I’d heard such mixed things about this book that I really didn’t plan to like it, but I enjoyed it a lot!
7. Newest Favourite Author
Tomi Adeyemi, Jen Hatmaker, and Rin Chupeco (the last two are new-to-me, anyway).
8. Newest Fictional Crush
Mmmmm … . I guess Marco from The Night Circus? but it’s not at the same level as past book-crushes I’ve had.
9. Newest Favourite Character
Inan from Children of Blood and Bone
10. Book that made you cry
Both Burial Rites by Hannah Kent and We Are Okay by Nina LaCour made me tear up big-time.
11. Book that made you happy
Caraval by Stephanie Garber, Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst, and Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
12. Prettiest book you’ve bought/received this year?
Hands-down The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
13. Books you need to read by the end of the year.
Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne, Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore, and City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty!
I tag @susannadlpena, @alicia-living-life, @pigeonbooks, @kiarazuri, and @onelaststark!
Reason: Winner of Recommendation Day!
Thoughts: I hasn’t heard of this one before it was recommended to me, but the summary on Goodreads is interesting!
Genre: YA Contemporary
Reason: Diverse Reading Challenge pick for South Asian Month!
Thoughts: This was newly released last month and I’m eager to see how this series continues!
Genre: YA Fantasy
Reason: I’ve been waiting for this one to come out for a long time.
Thoughts: The premise sounds awesome! Also, I didn’t get to it last month. 😦
Genre: YA Fantasy
Reason: Diverse Reading Challenge
Thoughts: I bought this at the beginning of the year but was saving it for the Diverse Reading Challenge this month!
Genre: YA Contemporary
I’m keeping the list fairly short again this month, in part because I’ll be editing UNROOTED in the second half of the month! But I’m very excited about the ones on this list and whatever else may strike my fancy!
Reason: Winner of Recommendation Day!
Thoughts: I bought this one almost as soon as it came out, but I’ve had to wait to read it until vacation–which I’m finally on! I definitely didn’t have to be told twice to want to read this.
Genre: YA Fantasy
Reason: Diverse Reading Challenge pick for Pride Month!
Thoughts: It’s been nearly a year since I started the series, and I’d really like to finish it.
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Reason: I’ve been waiting for this one to come out for a long time.
Thoughts: The premise sounds awesome!
Genre: YA Fantasy
Reason: Diverse Reading Challenge
Thoughts: I bought this awhile ago but never finished it, so I’m adding it to my list for Pride Month!
Genre: Fantasy
Don’t take this tiny list to mean I won’t be reading in June! Quite the contrary–I’m just leaving myself plenty of wiggle room to read what I want when I feel like it. These three are just the ones I’m dying to get to. Stay tuned to find out what else I pick up this month!
Reason: Reading for Fun (Recommendation Day Winner)
Thoughts: I’ve been wanting to read this one for over a year, and now I’ll finally have the time to do it!
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Reason: Reading for Fun (Diverse Reading Challenge)
Thoughts: This is one that I’ve seen lots of good things about since its debut, and I’d love to check it out for myself!
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Reason: Reading for Fun (Diverse Reading Challenge)
Thoughts: I’ve followed Hannah on Twitter for a while, and I’d really like to read one of her books!
Genre: YA Contemporary
Reason: Reading for Fun
Thoughts: I met McKelle at the Writing Cross-Culturally Retreat last year and I was so excited at the idea of her debut! I’d love to finally read it this month.
Genre: YA Historical
Reason: Reading for Fun
Thoughts: Will I finally get to this book this month??? We’ll see!!!
Genre: YA Fantasy
I’d love to make this list longer, but I am moving in the middle of the month and that might trip up my reading. Still, I’m done with school until mid-June, so I’m hoping to get a lot more reading done!
I’m really having a hard time getting through Wintersong! I am so confused because it’s so much of what I love but I’m just not connecting with it! Aaaaaggghhhhh
Reason: Reading for Fun; Winner of Recommendation Day!
Thoughts: I know that so many people adore this book, and I loved the other book by Becky
Genre: YA Contemporary
Reason: Reading for Fun; Diverse Reading Challenge
Thoughts: This one has been on myself a while, and I’m curious!
Genre: YA Fantasy
Phèdre by Jean Racine
Reason: Reading for School (17th Century Baroque French Drama)
Thoughts: I’m unfamiliar with this play!
Genre: Drama
Reason: Reading for Fun; Diverse Reading Challenge
Thoughts: I’ve heard mixed things, but I did buy it and I’m excited to read it!
Genre: YA Fantasy
Reason: Reading for Fun; Diverse Reading Challenge
Thoughts: This sounds absolutely lovely and I can’t wait!
Genre: YA Fantasy
I’m keeping my list short this month after not being able to get through much last month and feeling a little disappointed. It’s also the last month of the semester and I’ll have term papers I need to focus on. What are you planning to read this month?
Date Started: March 1st, 2018
Date Finished: March 1st, 2018
Reason: Read for School (17th Century Baroque French Drama)
Genre: Drama
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Date Started: February 26th, 2018
Date Finished: March 7th, 2018
Reason: Read for School (Folklore Genres)
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Date Started: March 12th, 2018
Date Finished: March 19th, 2018
Reason: Read for Fun; Diverse Reading Challenge (Women’s History Month)
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: 2.5/5 Stars
Blog Review: Click Here
Extended Review: Click Here
Date Started: March 19th, 2018
Date Finished: March 24th, 2018
Reason: Read for Fun; Diverse Reading Challenge (Women’s History Month); Winner of Recommendation Day!
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Blog Review: Click Here
Extended Review: Click Here
Date Started: March 28th, 2018
Date Finished: March 29th, 2018
Reason: Read for School (17th-Century Baroque French Drama)
Genre: Drama
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Date Started: March 24th, 2018
Date Finished: March 29th, 2018
Reason: Teaching this Semester (Writing the World)
Genre: Drama
Rating: 5/5 Stars
I didn’t read nearly as much this month as last month, and definitely far less than I expected to! I thought I’d have more time, but the first week of March was crazy busy with grad school and while I was on spring break with @susannadlpena I mostly had adventures and was chilling out giving my brain a break. I still hit my priority reads, though, so I’m still calling it a win! What did you read this month?
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