Month in Review: January 2021

It’s felt like a busy week of blogging and I’m writing this on Tuesday 😛 Time for some reflection in the new year, thanks to Jenna @ Falling Letters for the template!

Books finished:

Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
(Trust) Falling for You by Charish Reid
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Tales from the Hinterland by Melissa Albert

Books reviewed:

Book cover for The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills. Illustration of a graveyard with a ghost man wearing headphones and a ghost cat leaning against gravestones. A woman's face with long brown hair is at the top of the cover, her eyes aren't visible.

Book cover for Transcendant Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Half pink and half black background with an illustration of a young black woman's torso turned away from the reader and knelt in prayer.

Book cover for My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle. Title text is white over a photo of a person sitting with their head on their lap on tree branches laid in a star pattern. They are outside on a grassy lawn.

Book cover for Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette. Illustration of a girl with braided hair and headphones in her ears.

Book cover for Archibald Spider and His Paper Glider. Illustration of a spider on a red paper airplane that flies over a farm, a duck pond, field of cows, and a school bus driving by.

Book cover for Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology. Illustration of two silhouettes of women holding hands and looking up at the moon. All colours in pinks and purples.

Book cover for Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe. Illustration of a teenage Black boy and girl crossing a street at a crosswalk while walking a dog.

Book cover for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Gold title text against a black background, Seven stars form a constellation over the title.

The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle
A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson
Archibald Spider and His Paper Glider by Nina Fowell
Love Beyond Body, Space & Time edited by Hope Nicholson
Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Discussion posts:

Joined in for Bout of books 30 and shared my current reads and final progress
Talked about some great reads that haven’t received much attention
Shared my top reads of 2020 with 3-word pitches
Revealed my final 2020 challenge recap
Shared my reading goals for the new year
Looked back on my year in blogging and the new features I created!

Challenges check-in:

0/13 books read from my 2021 Chosen TBR
0/4 read from my 2020 Chosen TBR
0/5+ read from books I own
1/10+ read from my TBR
205/150 books on my Goodreads TBR

In the book community:

Shruti @ This is Lit put together a book rec guide, pairing your zodiac sign with a romance novel trope (and rec based on that trope!)
Sally @ Why Homer talks about Andromache in The Iliad and critiques raised against “Greek myths”, which felt especially relevant after my recent read
Not a book blog but the latest volume of Chinatown Stories was just released (a collection of interviews and artwork created by residents of and those with a connection to Chinatown in Vancouver), along with a free digital app!

Upcoming in February:

perhaps some Beautiful Bookstores from Winnipeg
more reviews (including an exciting, upcoming release!)
and maybe some Music Mondays!

I read and reviewed a lot more than I thought (though of course my Goodreads TBR isn’t reflecting that 😛 ). No progress on challenges but I’ve had a lot of ARCs to catch up on so haven’t managed to focus on those yet.

What was your favourite read in January?
Any plans for this month, bookish or otherwise?

Cover images from Goodreads.