Books I Read in January
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
½ - Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Robin by Dave Itzkoff ½
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin ½
- Underland by Robert Macfarlane
- How We Know What Isn’t So by Thomas Gilovich
- If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) by Betty White ½
- Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Strange Exit by Parker Peevyhouse ½
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi ½
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire ½
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll
- The Girl from Nowhere by Eliska Tanszer ½
Provided by NetGalley and publisher for a fair and honest review.
This was a great month, but I was worried. I started off slow while I traveled. Then I got the flu for a week. January AYearAthon really saved me (getting me back in the pattern of reading). I think I had a pretty good spread of books. If you saw my 2020 ongoing post, you’ll know I am trying a new rating scheme, and I think it is helping me rate books more concisely. I really like thinking about each piece of it as I think about the score it deserves.
Now, I did DNF two books this month, Underland and The God of Small things. I am still counting them because I was over 70% through them; it was enough. This is another sign of a good start to the year because I can really struggle to DNF a book I am not enjoying or getting into. On top of that, I hit 500 likes on my blog, so exciting! I also started Josh’s Bookish Voyage, my new Booktube channel. I talk all about that in my 2020 reading log as well.
February TBR
- The Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Blackathon Cont. Challenge)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (Blackathon Scifi Challenge)
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- Not that Bad edited by Roxane Gay
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
- Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Blackathon Cont. Challenge)
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon (Blackathon Cont. Challenge)
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (Blackathon Scifi Challenge)
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Blackathon Scifi Challenge)
- Lagurdia by Nnedi Okorafor (Blackathon Scifi Challenge)
- Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
- March by John Lewis et al.
- Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean Humez
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
You can hear all my thoughts in my video above, but these are the books I am reading this month. I didn’t mention The Color Purple in the video because I ordered it and forgot to mention it. I have made a very ambitious goal this month, especially since it is a short month. Of course, it is Black History Month. I talk all about that in my video and how I am participating in #Blackathon2020. Check out the link to learn more. In doing that, there are some challenges I will be completing. I am identifying as team science fiction; I’ve marked the books I am reading for that in red above. However, I am reading enough books to satisfy some of the contemporary team (Cont.) which I’ve marked in blue. I will be one short sadly.
I’m aiming for 3 audiobooks a week which I think is my normal speed. On top of that, I will be completing the Blackathon book-tag and Instagram challenge where I am going to plug seven books. I’ve decided to treat that like a week long “readathon” where I will try to read these all over the course of one week. I will be doing it the week before the actual Instagram challenge due to personal things.
That comes out to 9 audiobooks (3 weeks) plus 7 for the “Readathon” week. That comes to 16 audiobooks (the exact number of audiobooks I have above). My physical reading assumes I can finish each book with reading on the bus plus a bit of personal time. If I don’t complete a book, that is really where it is most likely to happen. However, I only have two real books with two comics to enjoy. If you want to hear more about my thoughts for each book, check out my YouTube video above!
For the Love of Science 