Weekly Wrap-Up: 1/27 – 2/2

Well. January is finally over and February has officially begun. Onto love month!

My posting last week was pretty good. I’d also say my reading (of novels) was also decent, even though I only read one book. It’s still better than the two weeks before by virtue of me actually finishing a book within a week, and not like half a book. I still didn’t read as much as I’d have liked to, however.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get on with the weekly wrap-up!

Tuesday 1/28: Top Ten Tuesday

Last Tuesday, I participated in Top Ten Tuesday. Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s prompt was New to Me Authors I Discovered in 2024.

Top Ten Tuesday: New to Me Authors I Discovered in 2024

Wednesday 1/29: Can’t-Wait Wednesday

On Wednesday, I participated in another Can’t-Wait Wednesday. Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings. It focuses on books you’re looking forward to reading, usually new releases.

Can’t-Wait Wednesday: All Better Now

Saturday 2/1: This is How You Lose the Time War Review

On Saturday, I posted a book review. It was on a novella that had been on my TBR for a couple of years, that I finally got around to reading. The book was This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. And I’m really glad I read it. I gave it ★★★★☆.

This is How You Lose the Time War Review

Sunday 2/2: January Reading 2025

Yesterday, I posted my Monthly Reading Wrap-Up for January 2025. It was once again posted at a reasonable time in the month – earlier than I’d done in a while. For those who don’t know, monthly wrap-ups are when I go over the books I read over the past month, as well as my stats over on The StoryGraph.

Monthly Wrap-Up: January Reading 2025

Books I Read Last Week

💖🎁 Wrapping It All Up 💖🎁

So yeah, like the week before, I was really happy with my posting for last week. Here’s to hoping that I can continue this trend with the blog! That, and to read more books. I wish I would’ve read more last week! 🍀🤞

I’m not sure if I’m going to start up with reading the next arc of One Piece this week, or put it off to later in the month. If I do, then I think I’ll read A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallero. And then… I’m not sure what I’d read.

Regarding life outside books and the blog… still not a lot going on. I didn’t do as much home cooking as I had wanted to last week, though. Hopefully that changes this week. Also, next week features Valentine’s Day, and I’m looking forward to that.

Anyway, as always, thank you to everyone for reading, and I hope you all have a wonderful day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: January Reading 2025

Here we are, on the second day of the month. Once again, a reasonable day to be posting a wrap-up. Also, ❄️ Happy Groundhog Day 🌱 everybody!! Will we or won’t we have six more weeks of winter?!

Regarding January 2025 my reading was… fine. I didn’t end up reading as many books as I’d hoped I would, but I read twice as many as I did in January 2024, so I’m counting it as a win.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into my StoryGraph statistics from last month!

January Reading 2025

I read 2 books and 518 pages

😐 MOODS: I had three Moods in January, which was less than I did the month before. There wasn’t one mood that was bigger than the others this time, they were all the same size slice. The Moods were: Adventurous, Mysterious and Emotional.

👢 PACE: My books from last month were all medium-paced.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: Everything I read was between 198 and 384 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction in January. Per usual.

🎭 GENRES: There were four Genres in the books I read in January. Like my Moods from this month, all of the Genres also appeared equally. They were: Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult and LGBT+.

📄 FORMAT: This pie chart was actually correct for once. One of the books I read was digital and the other was a physical copy.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 3.75. The ratings I gave were between 3.5 stars and 4.0 stars, so yeah.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: My highest spike of reading occured from the 17th through the 19th. My other reading spike, as well as the only other time I read a novel this month, was from the 30th and the 31st.

The Books I Read in January

★★★✯☆ • my review

★★★★☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, even though I wasn’t quite happy with the amount of books I read last month, it was still better than the same month last year, so I’m still satisfied well enough with it. I’d still like to do better for February, this coming month, however.

This month I’ve got a couple novels I’m interested in right off the bat, as well. First off is the last installment of the Emily Wilde series, Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, but I’m also a little interested in Neal Shusterman’s new book, All Better Now. I’ve also still got books from my birthday last year as well as Christmas that I still have to read, and I’d like to get through one of two in February.

Anyway, as always, thank you for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my January reading in 2025. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have a fantastic day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Weekly Wrap-Up: 1/13 – 1/19

Ugh. I’m late again. But at least I’m actually posting this on Monday this week, like I should. Last week’s Weekly Wrap-Up posting was abysmal.

Actually, the posting was abysmal in general this past week. I only got two posts out, which sucked. But at least I actually started reading a book. Finally, the first book of January 2025. It only took almost three weeks to start reading it.

Anyway, let’s start the wrap-up.

Friday 1/17: First Line Friday

Last Friday, I participated in First Line Fridays for the first time in several weeks. First Line Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers (formerly) hosted by Wandering Words.

First Line Friday; 1/17

Sunday 1/19: Birthstone Book Covers

Yesterday, I participated in my favorite monthly post, Birthstone Book Covers. Birthstone Book Covers is a fun little post created and hosted by Leslie @ Books Are the New Black.

Each month, for the post, you feature book covers that are either the same color of the month’s birthstone or include the color in the title. This month was January, and its birthstone is garnet. So the colors are all different shades of red.

Birthstone Book Covers: January 2025

Books I Read Last Week

💖🎁 Wrapping It All Up 💖🎁

So yeah, last week was pretty pathetic regarding my blog posting. But at least I started reading another book finally (I didn’t finish it before the week was over – but still). My main goal for this coming week is to just straight up do better in general. Here’s hoping I do it. 🍀🤞

Concerning what I’m thinking of reading next, after Liar’s Kingdom, I’m not fully decided yet. I still have to read The Raven Tower which I got a couple months ago, but I’m also very drawn to A Crown of Ivy and Glass, which I acquired about a week ago.

There are also a couple of books I got for Christmas that I’m interested in – namely A Study in Charlotte, This is How You Lose the Time War and The Wren in the Holly Library. But who knows when I’ll get to them all and in which order. I’d also like to finally get to the Crescent City novels sooner rather than later. Which book will I end up reading? We’ll just all have to see what happens together, I guess.

Regarding stuff outside of books and the blog… not too much is going on at the moment, honestly. It’s snowed a couple of times in the last couple of weeks, which was annoying at first, but other than that there isn’t really anything else that’s gone on. I do want to start cooking more at home, though. So I guess that’s kind of new?

Anyway, as always, thank you to everyone for reading, and I hope you all have a wonderful day/night!

See ya ~Mar