A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: Four books read, two DNFs, a new favourite romance author, and an eclectic list of books I want to read, all topped off with some frustrating technical glitches.
Updates
| Last Week’s Blog Updates | Last Week’s Goodreads Reviews |
|---|---|
| 📖 25 Best and Worst Books of January 📖 Weekly Wrap: January 25th to January 31st | 📚 Monsters by K.N. Banet [DNF @ 39%] 📚 Betrayal by Bo Reid 📚 Heiress for Hire by Madeline Hunter [DNF @ 33%] |
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Weekly Review
What I’ve Read This Week
Key: 🔁 re-read| ❌ DNF | 📜 from my Up Next shelf | 📲 eARC
- Monsters (Kaliya Sahni, #3) by K.N. Banet ❌
- A Girl Like Her (Ravenswood, #1) by Talia Hibbert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- My Image of You by Melanie Moreland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Betrayal (The Reapers, #1) by Bo Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- My Saving Grace (ABC Corp, #1) by Melanie Moreland 📲 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Heiress for Hire (A Duke’s Heiress, #1) by Madeline Hunter ❌
My Reading Progress
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Last week was chaotic, to put it succinctly. I planned to post my review of My Saving Grace by Melanie Moreland but had technical difficulties with my website, so that’s been pushed into this week. I’m frustrated that my posting schedule is now off-balance, but I’m so glad everything was resolved, and there were no damages to my site!
I was able to post my January Wrap (see here)! My monthly wrap you details my favourite books, reading statistics, and the diversity in the books I’m reading.
Last week, I also decided to DNF two books, which you can see on the list above. Heiress for Hire by Madeline Hunter and Monsters by K.N. Banet. While the first is a historical romance and the latter is an urban fantasy, I’ve decided to DNF them for the same reason. I’m not in the mood for a fiction novel that puts the plot well ahead of its romance; the romances aren’t even in the background… they’re more like non-existent.
I read a fabulous sweet, small-town romance with the best Heroine and most adorable soft Hero: A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert. If you’re ever in the mood for an excellent feminist romance (meaning consent is discussed as it should be, there’s no fat-shaming by the love interests, etc.), you should pick up Talia Hibbert’s novels! They’re quickly becoming a favourite of mine.
Up Next Shelf Progress
A reminder: my Up Next Shelf is comprised of all the unread books I want to read and have purchased.
The total number of books on my Up Next Shelf decreased to 92 books because I decided to DNF Heiress for Hire by Madeline Hunter, which was on my Up Next shelf. My books read stayed the same at 7 books
Net Progress = Books Added – Books Read
My Net Progress has improved because I didn’t add any new books to my Up Next shelf and I removed one.
– Total Books is the total number of books still waiting to be read on my Up Next Shelf. It’s important to recognize that when I finish a book, that book is immediately deducted from the total, meaning the total value decreases. It’s important because while the weeks of Nov 2-8 and Nov 9-15 look like my total books value hasn’t changed, it actually shows that I added a new book to my Up Next Shelf during the Week of Nov 9-15.
– Books Read is the number of books I’ve read from my Up Next Shelf in that week. The values are negative because finishing a book from the Shelf decreases the total value. Therefore, when looking at the Overall graph (the yellow line), you can see when the line is 0, the books I read and added cancel each other out. This week (Nov 16-22), the Overall value is below the 0-line, demonstrating that I didn’t add any new books to my Up Next Shelf, but I did finish a book from the Shelf.
Want to Read Updates
You will like The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff if you appreciate:
✨ A ‘human portrait’ of 9/11. I like how it’s centring the people instead of the government.
✨ Nonfiction
✨ History
✨ Amazing audiobook
You will like ACE: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen if you appreciate:
✨ LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction
✨ Sexuality
✨ Memoir
✨ “What does asexuality reveal about consent, about compromise, about the structures of society?”
You will like I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter by David Chariandy if you appreciate:
✨ Memoir
✨ Father’s ode to his daughter
✨ Canadian author
✨ Discusses the history and present of racism through the centring of his family and ancestry
✨ Disrupt the myth of Canada as a ‘post-racial’ or ‘Not-As-Bad-As-the-US’ country
The Upcoming Week
To Be Read
I’m starting my first book in my February TBR (see here): The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor. I received an advanced reader copy of this book’s 2nd edition through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My thanks to FSB Association for the opportunity! It releases tomorrow, on February 9th!
I first saw The Body Is Not An Apology on The Feminist Book Club‘s page; it was their February pick for their theme, fat liberation. Fatphobia is a word that was introduced to me last year; I had never come across a word that describes the insidious demand for people to be thin and “conventionally beautiful.” Why is it that thin can be used as a descriptor, but fat is always thought of as offensive?
To Look Forward To This Week
There are three books releasing this week and I’m so excited! I know I say this every week but ever since reading the synopsis of The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna I’ve actually been counting down the days to its release. The book includes my favourite fantasy tropes and the early reviews suggest is has a consistent feminist message!
The two other books releasing this week are two historical romance novels: Dancing with Danger by Kerrigan Byrne and The Rakehell of Roth by Amalie Howard. I’m hoping they become new favourites in the historical romance genre; I’ve been re-reading all of Lisa Kleypas’s novels so I really need some new books in the mix.
All of these books release tomorrow, February 9th! I’ll also be posting my review of My Saving Grace on Thursday!
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