Hard to believe it’s already December! This year has flown by…and while there are still plenty of books left on my tbr from November, I still did read quite a bit. I participated in both #NordicNoirNovember and #NonfictionNovember and got in some good ones in both genres.
The big news this month is that I started a newsletter for the blog!!! I do hope you will sign-up if you haven’t already done so. My intent is not to flood your inboxes every day. I’m not exactly sure how often I will be sending these newsletters out, but I do know that as a subscriber, every once in a while you will receive extra content that will not be published on the blog or anywhere else.
Bookclub news: We just announced our #mommaleighellensbookclub picks for December and due to upcoming holidays, we decided to only go with 2 books this month: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult and The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox. All chats take place on the Discord app, so anyone is welcome to join us – just let me know and I’d be happy to add you to the group!
Reading Stats:
- Read this month: 25
- Year to date: 288
Books Read:
- All Her Little Secrets — Wanda M. Morris (audio book)
- A Solitude of Wolverines — Alice Henderson (print/audio book)
- Everything We Didn’t Say — Nicole Baart (audio book)
- Death at Greenway — Lori Rader-Day (audio book)
- The Lincoln Highway — Amor Towles (audio book)
- November 9— Colleen Hoover
- Beautiful Country — Qian Julie Wang (audio book)
- A Blizzard of Polar Bears — Alice Henderson (audio book)
- In Sight of the Mountains — Jamie McGillen
- The Cartographer’s Secret — Tea Cooper
- In Light of the Summit — Jamie McGillen
- In the Heart of Paradise — Jamie McGillen
- The Secret of Snow — Viola Shipman
- Once There Were Wolves — Charlotte McConaghy (audio book)
- Secrets of a Charmed Life — Susan Meissner (audio book)
- The Family — Naomi Krupinsky
- A Promised Land — Barack Obama (audio book)
- Death Deserved — Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger
- The Jealousy Man — Jo Nesbo
- The Crow Girl — Erik Axl Sund
- If the Fates Allow — Rainbow Rowell (audio book)
- Oh. What. Fun. — Chandler Baker (audio book)
- Model Home — J. Courtney Sullivan (audio book)
- The Marriage Test — Suzanne Redfearn (audio book)
- Once a Liar — A.F. Brady (audio book)
Favorite Books of November:
- Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
- Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
- The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
This year I am all about the numbers. I decided that I am not doing any challenges, but I am going to pay attention to my own stats. This may or may not change as the year goes on…we shall see.
Books read that were published this year: 17 (232 YTD)
And of those, how many were review books: 13 (209 YTD)
Backlist review books read: 2 (19 YTD)
Books read off my own shelf (not review books): 9 (42 YTD)
Books bought/won in giveaways: 13 (75 YTD)
