Oops, I’m a dodo who forgot to post my wrap up and actually forgot until today that it wasn’t even January anymore! That’s right folks, despite my birthday being the beginning of February, and my husband’s too, and despite actually acknowledging those two days, I still somehow didn’t register in my brain that it’s February. Ridiculous brain.

Non-Reading Stuff

Well I haven’t been doing as well at doing things around the house and I didn’t leave the house all month, but most of that is due to my pain getting worse again and recently to getting sick. I just feel too crappy to fight the fatigue caused by the depression.

Despite that though, I’m still hopeful that I will continue improving.

Reading Stuff

I finished 10 books in January!
You can view the list of books and my fave/least fave things about them here.

I’m so proud of myself honestly. I’m even ahead on my Goodreads goal of 75 for the year! I think if I manage to keep up this kind of momentum through the first half of the year I may raise my goal.

I also decided to try reading some different genres, or at least different sub-genres of YA, than I usually gravitate towards, and so far it’s going tolerably. I’ve also made an effort to get back into autobiographies.

Blogging Stuff

I’ve been trying to talk to more book bloggers, but it’s still hard for me. I’m always so worried I won’t come across the way I intend, or I’ll say something stupid, but I’m trying.

I decided recently to start doing Book Haul photos for Library Books even though they aren’t quite as pretty. I just can’t afford to buy every book I want to read. Heck, I can’t even afford to buy every book I like. And libraries are a decidedly underrated resource! So I’m done being embarrassed by posting pictures of library books and am even upping my game! Take that!

I did some here and there for the book memes I participate in and I’m still doing my Dedication Spotlight bookstagrams. I’ve changed how I do my quote posts and so far I like it better. Partially that’s just formatting, but also I’ve stopped doing quote collection posts after I read a book and am instead scheduling individual quote posts to come out daily so I have at least a little consistent content and hopefully people will notice the lovely words better if they come in bite-sized portions. All these things can be found by using the respective sidebar links.

The best part about January, though, is that I’ve done better at reviewing, just like I was hoping I would. I actually wound up reviewing full half of the books I read in January. Some of them are just mini-reviews, but I’m satisfied with that. You can access those through the Reading Wrap-Up link above or by using the sidebar links.

Is there something you would like to see (or see more of) on the blog? Let me know! And if you have your own monthly wrap-ups I’d love some links! 🙂 Hope all y’all had good a start of the year!