Monthly Wrap-Up: January Reading 2026

Hey everyone, and here’s a belated Happy Valentine’s Day!! 💝🌹💌🌷🍫💐 This post is also extremely late in the month. I usually like to do my monthly wrap-ups within the first week or so into the next month, but that didn’t happen here this time. Oh well. But yeah, here’s my reading wrap-up for January 2026!

January was alright. I read a couple of books and my blog activity was pretty high, for me at least. I’d have liked to do better in regards to how many novels I read, but two books isn’t terrible, especially with how half of last year was. Hopefully I’ll do better for February, or at the very least, match my reading from last month.

Anyway, let’s just start talking about my StoryGraph statistics from last month!

January Reading 2026

I’ve decided to do things slightly differently this time around. The analysis of my Moods and such is staying the same, but I’m adding a few more stats up here.

I read 📚 2 books and 📑 923 pages in January, and my average star rating was ⭐ 4.0 stars. Also, the average length of the books I read was 📈 461 pages and my average time to finish was 🗓️ 3 days.

😐 MOODS: For this past month, my Moods were Adventurous, Tense, Funny, Emotional, and Dark, with the largest part of the pie chart being Adventurous.

👢 PACE: The pacing of of the books that I read in January was 100% medium.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: Concerning my average Page Number per book, 50% of the books were above 500 pages, and 50% of the novels were between 300 and 499 pages. So one book was 500+ pages and the other was 300 – 499.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: Regarding the ratio here, the books I read were both fiction.

🎭 GENRES: All of the Genres I read in January were Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, and LGBT+. They were each only applicable once to either of the two books, so they’re all equal.

📄 FORMAT: The Format for both books was print, so they were both physical copies.

📊 STAR RATINGS: I’ve already mentioned this above, but this is what it looks like on the graph. Both novels I read I rated 4.0 stars, though.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: I didn’t read anything over the first half of the month, unfortunately, but I did during the second half. I read quite a bit between the 16th and the 19th, but my biggest peak was at the end of the month on the 30th and 31st.

The Books I Read in January

★★★★☆ • my review

★★★★☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, January wasn’t quite as good as I was hoping it would be, but I can only hope to go better this month. I’m happy with how consistent I was with blogging, though, even if I had wanted to do better with my book reading.

Regarding what I want to read next, I’m thinking Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson, and then maybe Stolen Midnights by Katherine Quinn. After that, I’m not absolutely sure. I’m also considering Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawsett, however.

This post was late in part because I wanted to get all of my reviews for the books I read last month out first, but also because I wanted to alter my monthly wrap-ups a little bit, but wasn’t super cute what exactly I wanted for a small while. But I’ve finally figured it out, so I’m finally posting this. Yay!

Anyway, as always, thank you for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my January reading in 2026. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have a great day/night!

See ya ~Mar

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Weekly Wrap-Up: 11/25 – 12/1

Uhhh… Last week was so busy. I didn’t really have time to work on blog stuff, and I couldn’t figure out which book I wanted to read next. Which, um, doesn’t have anything to do with me being busy, but whatever. Anyway.

Concerning the number of posts I did do… Yeah, it wasn’t a lot. But I honestly wasn’t expecting too much to get done, even though I was hopeful about how many posts I’d get out. And the books I’d read. But that’s just how the cookie crumbles when there’s a holiday.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get going!

Thursday 11/28: Thanksgiving 2024

Last Thursday was Thanksgiving. It came pretty late this year, so I ended up putting the Christmas decorations up early. And good thing I did too, because it’s kind of been snowing since then and I wouldn’t have gotten the chance to put the outdoor ones up until later this week had I waited. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽️🥧🌽🍂🍁 to everyone who celebrates!!

Friday 11/29: First Line Friday

On Friday, I participated in the weekly post, First Line Fridays. Two weeks in a row! Oh yeah! First Line Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers (formerly) hosted by Wandering Words. It’s a fun little post that focuses on guessing books based on their first lines.

First Line Friday: 11/29

Saturday 11/30: Books I’m Thankful For

This past Saturday, I finally posted the usual thing I do for Thanksgiving, Books I’m Thankful For. It was about a day later than I’d have liked, but it wasn’t that late so I was pretty satisfied.

This year, the book – or series in this case (once again) – that I gushed about was the Warrior Cats series by (the team of ghostwriters that is) Erin Hunter.

Books I’m Thankful For: Warrior Cats

Books I Read Last Week

💖🎁 Wrapping It All Up 💖🎁

So yeah, I didn’t get a ton of reading or blogging done last week, but with the holiday I didn’t really expect to. Hopefully this week will go better. 🤞🍀

This week, I’m planning on doing a book review at some point, as well as my reading wrap-up for November. I’m also most likely going to do a couple of the usual weekly posts that I participate in. So I’m hoping to do four blog posts, but if I only get out three, I guess I’ll be okay. Since I’m still getting my crap together after the busyness that was last week.

Talking about stuff I did last week beyond the blog… It was all basically Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving adjacent. Either I was celebrating it, or getting ready for it, whether that be baking and cooking or cleaning. It was honestly kind of busy and stressful. I’m looking forward to relaxing and reading a bit more this week.

It’s also still snowing on and off so far this week. Winter is coming, y’all. ❄️☃️

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

See ya ~Mar

Weekly Wrap-Up: 11/18 – 11/24

So with this post, I’ve officially been doing Weekly Wrap-Ups for four weeks now, which is a month of Mondays worth of posting! Yay! I feel like I’m really on track now.

Regarding my reading and posting from last week however… Yeah, it could’ve been better. I really only got through one book, unfortunately, and I posted a little less than I’d have liked as well. Oh well, let’s see what I can do this coming week. Honestly, seeing as this week is gonna be busier ’cause of the holiday, I’ll be happy if I can match my posting from this past week.

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

Wednesday 11/20: Birthstone Book Covers

Last Wednesday, 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 November, and its birthstones are topaz and citrine. The colors are yellow and gold.

Birthstone Book Covers: November 2024

Friday 11/22: First Line Fridays

First Line Friday: 11/22

Sunday 11/24: Snow Drowned Review

Yesterday, I posted my review of Snow Drowned by Jennifer D. Lyle. It’s a pretty recently released horror-fantasy novel. I ultimately gave this book ★★★✯☆.

Snow Drowned Review

Books I Read Last Week

💖🎁 Wrapping It All Up 💖🎁

So yeah, I wasn’t super happy with the amount of posts I did last week. I would’ve liked to have done at least one more. I also kind of wish I’d at the very least started reading another book, but whatever I guess. It is what it is.

Because of Thanksgiving, I’m not sure how much blogging I’ll be able to do. I always get a little busier during weeks with holidays, and this sometimes affects the amount of blog posts I put out. I’m still hoping to do three or four additional posts this week besides this one though. Two that I’m definitely gonna do include: a book review, and my annual Books I’m Thankful For post that I do around Thanksgiving.

Regarding the things I did last week beyond blogging and reading books, there once again wasn’t a lot that I did. My schedule was completely messed up though, my time was managed terribly as a result, and I definitely didn’t get enough sleep as well. (I’m actually pretty sure that this might have affected my reading and posting last week. Whoops.) I’ve already rectified all this though, so hopefully this week will be a lot better.

This week, of course, is the week of Thanksgiving, as well as the start of the Holiday Season, so I’ll naturally be doing a lot with that. I’m also gonna be doing more cleaning.

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

See ya ~Mar