January was a busy and oddly rough month. Rando was in a mischievous mood and keep slinging the door stoppers at me. So I got through Swan Song finally and established that The Kingdom of Little Wounds is absolutely not YA. (I've put it aside for now and I'm pulling it from my classroom library.) I read two of my three TBR recommendations, three YA novels, six volumes of Fruits Basket, and a mystery for my Mystery class. All in all, 13 books which is none too shabby.
Technically, only one of the Fruits Basket volumes was on the list, but my sister in law and my husband are interested in reading them so I started using them to break up my read of Swan Song when it's started grinding me down.
I really did end up enjoying Swan Song after all the drama of getting through it. My favorites from this month though are When We Wake by Karen Healy, Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline, and A Stitch in Time by Kelly Armstrong. I also really enjoyed my reread of Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradly which I really didn't enjoy as much the first time I read it.
As a parting shot, rando put me on to another doorstop Caliban's War which is volume 2 of "The Expanse." I'll be reading that well into February. I have to laugh. I am absolutely looking forward reading it, but it's huge. I guess Rando's looking out for me, but it's uncanny that three of the four biggest books on the list got randomly selected this month.
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