Wow this month has been one with lots of changes and ups and downs. So grab a cup of tea, or coffee, and let’s chat!
On the review side, I reviewed a total of ten books, posted two diversity spotlight posts, one collaboration, one Top Ten Tuesday, and one Bibliophile Friday. On the personal side, this month I finished my internship (which greatly infringed on my reading time and made life a bit more stressful) and had to re-evaluate what I was going to do afterwards. Things that were hard and stressful.
Challenge wise:
I posted one pure discussion post and a tag which brings my grand total up to four discussion posts this year. That does not even take into consideration a character tag I did or my diversity posts, Top Ten Tuesdays or Bibliophile Fridays. All in all, I am doing pretty well and my goal was only ten for the year. Plus I have already a few in the works for March.
Diversity wise, I have been increasing my read of diverse books and diversity spotlight posts. I have also bought more diverse books than non-diverse books. I do not want to give myself too much praise, but I do think I am making important progress. Also I am impressed I kept up, so far with the Diverse Read Monthly prompts. In January I read, Spirits Abroad which is based on a lot of folklore. Additionally, in February I reviewed Everything I Never Told You, but also read When the Moon Was Ours (which I will review in March)
As for Netgalley and Edelweiss I have been making really great progress here. I have read, so far, five advance reads from those two sites. Being as my goal was only ten, I think that I am basically finished with this challenge already, since I read eight in January. I will give myself praise for this, because that is a lot of advance reads! I am going to keep going and maybe get to the next levels though.
My favorite book from February
This is so difficult for me to choose since I read some fantastic books! My top three have to be Pachinko, Everything Belongs to Us, and the first two of the Greatcoats books. Since I have sung so many praises about the first two books, I think it is high time I picked a different one. So my favorite of this month is Knight’s Shadow. I enjoyed it more than the first book, by a smidge, because I already knew the characters. You can find a full review of this book and the first one, but in short, I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoy epic fantasy, plots of intrigue, and characters with class and humor.
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I’d like to read Pachinko too but I think I need to space it out a little after reading Human Acts.
good idea! I enjoyed it, but reading them back to back could be a bit confusing.
Hope that you’ve got some future things more figured out now since your internship has ended. These types of big changes can be so stressful!!
Yes :-/ But it does leave more time for reading 🙂
I want to read Pachinko too. I’m trying to read more diverse books as well as debut author books this year.
I really recommend it 😀