January Wrap Up | 2020

I blinked and the first month of the year is done and I have officially started my reading for the year. Scary times! I definitely haven’t done as well as I hoped I would, purely because I underestimated how much more time I would have to make for reading and working on the blog. Plus I had a set back at the start of the year where I crashed my car and that put me in a slump for a little while, but I have gotten myself back on track, here’s my January Wrap Up:

• 9 books read
• 0 e-arcs
• 3,136 pages
• 15 blog posts published (not including this one)
• 8/107 books read for Goodreads Challenge (1 book ahead)
• 6/50 prompts completed for the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
• 4/26 letters completed for the A-Z Reading Challenge
• 6/52 prompts completed for the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge.

• Becoming by Michelle Obama | I have been wanting to read this book for a really long time and I did originally try the audiobook but without much success. I am SO glad I read this one, it really changed my perspective on a lot of things.
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo | This one took me by surprise, purely because it took me a lot longer to read than I thought it would. I loved the individual stories and I really loved the depth we got to know the characters.
• Die Trying by Lee Child | I am really enjoying this series, I do have an issue with the inconvenient sex that seems to happen in most of these books. But I love the easy drama of it all. They are definitely easy reading.
• Unbound by Victoria Schwab | For the first time in forever a sequel is actually better than the first book, and this was definitely the case for this one. I loved meeting all the new characters and the chance of normalcy.

• Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M. C. Beaton | I think this series is going to become a guilty pleasure read. I loved this one, actually more than the first one, I think the characters hit a different stride and it comes across well.
• Death of a Cad by M. C. Beaton | The tables have turned because although I enjoyed reading this one, it definitely wasn’t as enjoyable as the first. I think it got too convoluted with the romantic elements that entwine itself throughout.
• Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood | We’re reading all of the Hogarth Shakespeare books for my library book club and I thought I would jump ahead. I’m glad I did, I loved this book and the way it made me feel. The characters were intense and well written and I loved seeing where the story was going to end up going.
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear | This one took me by surprise, I don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t this. I loved how matter of fact it all was and how that brought up WAY more emotion than planned for.

• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | I was really sorry to end my month on this one, but I did. It disappointed me from start to finish, I had worked out what the massive plot twist was and I found the main character to be frustrating.

I thought I would show all the books that I didn’t manage to get read this month!

These will all be making their way onto future TBRS, probably February if I’m honest. I also didn’t finish or really listen to any of my audiobooks. So I shall be trying to pick that up a little bit more as well!

What did you manage to get read this month? Leave your links down below!