Oh boy. A lot happened in January and none of it was conductive to reading a lot of books.

At the start of the month I set a goal on Goodreads to read 26 books this year. That’s a book every two weeks. It sounds like a reasonable goal. January just ended and I’m already behind. There were a lot of factors playing into my inability to read in January. I’m not going to go into most of them now but a big one was having one cold after another for more than half the month. It’s made doing everything harder than it should be so of course reading hasn’t been happening.

Books I finished reading in January:

• Heaven Official’s Blessing: Volume 3 – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Books I’m currently reading:

• Evasive Winds – A. R. Shellnut
• The Two Towers – J. R. R. Tolkien
• Heaven Official’s Blessing: Volume 4 – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Did you set a reading goal for 2023? What books are you looking forward to reading this year? I’d love some recommendations to get my reading mojo back on track.

Does it seem unfair to anyone else that February is shorter than all the other months? There’s less time to read!

Books I finished reading in February:

• Heaven Official’s Blessing (Volume 1) – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• The Odyssey – Homer

Books I’m currently reading:

• The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
• Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
• Heaven Official’s Blessing (Volume 2) – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Did you have enough time to read in February or were you wishing for a few more days like me?

The new year started with me starting to read a lot of books. I’m still reading most of them.

I set a goal of 30 books for the year so I have a decent amount of reading to do.

Books I finished reading in January:

• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

Books I’m currently reading:

• Heaven Official’s Blessing (Volume 1) – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
• Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
• The Odyssey – Homer

Did you start reading a bunch of new books because the new year is an ambitious time of the year? What’s your reading goal for 2022?

I never know what to expect when it comes to reading in November. Trying to write 50,000 words in a month can really interfere with reading time, but sometimes making a book come out of my brain really makes me want to shove more books in there.

Books I finished reading in November:

• Lore Olympus: Volume One – Rachel Smythe
• Dark Lord of Derkholm – Diana Wynne Jones

Books I’m currently reading:

• House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones
• Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
• Year of the Griffin – Diana Wynne Jones

What books did you read in November? Did you end up taking a break from reading to focus on writing during NaNoWriMo?

July was a weird month for reading. I kept bouncing from one book to the next without actually finishing any of them for most of the month. Then in the final week of July I reached the end of multiple books. It was a bit strange to close out the month with so many conclusions. I’m not sure that’s happened to me before.

Books I finished reading in July:

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. E. Schwab
• Rogue Protocol – Martha Wells
• Persuasion – Jane Austen

Books I’m currently reading:

• House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones
• Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
• The Poppy War – R. F. Kuang
• Exit Strategy – Martha Wells

What did you read in July? Have you ever jumped around between different books only to finish several of them within a few days on each other? I’m still not sure how I feel about it even now.