my WORST READING MONTH EVER!! 😡 january wrap up 

I know you’re having a crappy reading experience currently 😂 but I really need you to know how much it brightens my day to see your RU-vid notifications pop up on my phone 📱 you really put me in such a good mood 🎉 so thanks 🙏

The way the first three books you list (Emily Wilde, Uprooted, and Godkiller) were all 5 stars for me 😂

megan you need to do a vlog where you just choose joy and read the books you feel like you're most excited for or know you will love

okay, try to save the year, first book of Chinese New Year this Saturday. maybe you can reboot

Every time I see Godkiller, I want to buy it, but then I remember what people have told me about it, and I change my mind. I don't usually by a book just for the cover, but for some reason I love the look of it.

Oh Meg! I feel awful telling you about my January, because it was a 4.1 average - my best reading month ever 😅 Hopefully your February can be what my January was!

I really love that you were so honest and real about this. It really helps me to feel like it's okay when I have a bad month too.

I had one 5 star book in January, it was Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

Fingers crossed the 4.5 is a sign of a change in luck and from now on your year will be full of 5* reads!

Sending all the good vibes for this month 😭🙏

Over last year I had decided that as far the book taste goes, we're twins. BUT now I just can't forget you giving 1 star to 'Uprooted'. 😂😂😂😂

I have too. I finished 1 book and it was a 1 star

I only read four books in January and I usually read way more than that in a month 😅 Luckily, they were all four stars and above! Wishing you better reading months ahead 🫶

I recommend And the Trees Crept In for something gothic and super atmospheric!

Maybe The Memoirs of Lady Trent would work for you. It's kind of cosy fantasy (regency inspired) with very light romantic subplots. For me, it's the perfect mix, and I don't find it cringy

You just got all the bad ones out of the way early and you’re going to read nothing but 4-5 stars from here on out!

Girl same! I don't know if I'm slumped because I finished/caught up with two major series I am very fond of or what but I've finished exactly one book this whole year😭 I don't know what it is because usually I chew through books like a mouse on holiday! I've tried like six things so far and nothing has stuck. Hopefully it'll improve as the weather warms up!

Think of it this way - it can only get better! Also I read the Athena Club series because of you and freaking loved it, so I am sending you some good book karma for a better February ❤

This has been my February so far. Three books, all 2 ⭐️

I’m so sorry but I had a great reading month 😂 my favorites were magnolia parks, first lie wins and lock every door

absolutely diabolical!! hope your feb reading goes better!

My 2023 was the year of DNFing some absolutely beloved books (I won't name them because I might get banned from your channel 😂) but my 2024 seems to be going better so far 🤞🤞🤞 sending all the positive reading vibes your way for this month!

The only way to go now is up! You’ve had the bad and get ready for the good!

My January reading (9 books) were mostly 4 stars, surprisingly! Best month I've had in awhile. I'm so sorry your January reading was awful- here's hoping February lifts your spirits!

For romantasy, you should give the ones by T. Kingfisher a try. Paladin's Grace was the first 5 star I gave one of her books and it balances fantasy and the romance very well

I’m so sorry you had such a terrible reading month!! 😢 I hope it only goes up from here! 👏

So sorry you had a bad reading month! I’m having a great month! Reading lots of mystery and romance. I really loved In Five Years by Rebecca Serle.

Emily Wilde isn’t a Romantasy lol it’s a cozy fantasy with a romance subplot. I adored it but if you went into it with Romantasy expectations you’d be disappointed.

I can't wait for you to read monstrilio I feel you'll love it

'but alas naomi novik you have pushed me to the brink' omg i'm crying 😂 loved you being a hater

I also had a terrible reading month in January 😂 after such amazing books in December... Thank you for reading for Godkiller, I can take if off my TBR 😂

Honesty appreciated for sure! These things can and do occasionally happen, and you did have a couple you liked so I guess it could have been worse. Still enjoyed the video and your pop culture edits are always such a fun addition. Thanks Meg! I'm reading 2 very good non-fictions -- "The Quickening", Pulitzer Prize finalist, written by a woman science journalist who joins 27 scientists on the most comprehensive ship voyage ever to Antarctica to study what's happening with the most significant glacier in terms of telling us about the state of climate change. And she's pregnant so there is this reflection about bringing a life into the world when it's likely heading in a bad direction. I have a long way to go but I'm enjoying it so far. And also a book called "Joe Dogs: The Life and Crimes of a Mobster" that is an autobiography of a mobster describing mob life in Florida, and its connection to the New York mobs, in the 70's. Colorful stories, entertaining, (he also has some self-disgust), if often distasteful or worse.

Maybe you should ask the community for specific recommendations for the vibes/book you're craving and make a vlog of reading them to see if they will take you iut of the slump? 😊

Maybe do a video where you read all the books you "should have chose for 1st book of the year". Read the other options. Some of those seemed like they'd have good potential for higher ratings. 🙂 Love your videos! ❤

I'm sorry you didn't like a lot of the books you read this month. Hopefully next month will be better for you. I'm sometimes out of nowhere not in the mood to read any of the books I own. Lol. I'm kind of exaggerating but still. Good luck 🤞🏻. Love your videos and personality. 😊 Keep it up!!!

Sorry to hear you didn’t have a great reading month 😢 I read 24 books in Jan but a few were graphic novels 😊 I also read The Book Eaters, and found it ok/fine, I hated Uprooted when I read it in 2016 so I get it! 😊

Ugh, a bad reading month. We hate to see it! My January was somewhere on the positive side of mid. Absolutely loved The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (not your speed probably, but highly reco for any other LitFic girlies). Same with Trust by Hernan Diaz. Re: mysteries, I read my first Japanese mystery (Malice by Keigo Higashino) and am v excited to dig deeper into his writing. Chin up for next month!

Every year late December my reading really slows down then in January I don’t tend to read anything but then the rest of the year it really picks up. Since I got into audiobooks I read loads more books. I get through at lest 300 a year which seems crazy but I’m always listening to something while I’m just pottering around

Struggled with my reading as well! At least the RHOSLC finale was a 5 star 😅

Okay, I thought I was the only one about Uprooted because it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring to me. Good Lord! How I slogged through it was a miracle.

Ali Hazelwood takes the romantasy tropes to contemporary and you like it. Maybe you actually enjoy romantasy 😉😂

Also at least I have a kindle as back up lol 🤣.

A book that might reignite that spark for you: Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen! It’s soo up your street but so under-hyped and deserves more love. The prologue is a bit intense but after that it’s super fun ✨

I felt the same way about Kaner's author bio and thought I was just being a dick 😂 so glad to see it wasnt just me

I also did not have a good reading month in January and honestly February as well 😢 I have not read other books but I also did not like Emily Wilde's Encylopedia and Uprooted and DNFd both of them 😂 (These I read last year) I felt kind of bad because EVERYONE seems to like them but oh well... Anyway I hope you have a better reading month this month!

take that back about Emily Wilde and Godkiller 🤣 I disagree with everything you said about Godkiller xD

This might seem like an odd book recommendation, but I feel like you need to read "What the Road Said" by Cleo Wade. It's a picture book, but it's got wisdom for both children and adults. It's made me cry, friends cry, people I've gifted it to cry, and just think about life and where they're going. It such an impactful book. I tried looking into how to send you a copy of it, but sending things from to people that live in the UK when you live in the US it's rather complicated as I just found out. If you don't want to purchase it, as a Children's Librarian, I would recommend getting it from your local library or buy it and then gift it to a friend that has kids if it turns out to be a book you don't want to keep forever.

i’ve just had the worst reading month too

Emily Wilde and Godkiller did not work for me either. I thought it was just me!

Oh no I'm so sad to hear about Godkiller T^T

I only read five books in January 😢 and not a single one was five stars

If it makes you feel better I read 4 books in January, three were 3 stars and once was 2 stars🙃

I got a 3.8 last month for my avg rating. Had some 2 stars, but had some banging 5 stars.

My first book of the year was a 2 star book that I was so excited for. It was Last Days by Adam Nevill and like omg I did not care. It was a gigantic info dump with a few scares interspersed. I mainly give 4 and 5 stars. So for me to give a 2? It really says something lol

Have you read starling house? I think you'll like it, very gothic, atmospheric, slow

I had one 5 star in January 🥲 out of 15 😭

I hope your February reading treats you better!!! btw it's totally normal for an author bio to include someone's specific educational background, including school and degree, and I've seen plenty where that's the only information. I don't really think it's fair to judge an author's character by the sparseness of their bio, I always assume it just means they want privacy, but if you really want more information maybe her bio on goodreads has more of the cute details you're looking for 🤷🏼‍♀

Sorry your January was filled with books that you didn't enjoy. I had a good month, I managed 11 books which is a record for me. I did however have some books that I did not enjoy, the one that sticks out the most in my head is 1689 by Amy Cross. It was horrid.....just horrid and gory for no other reason than because she can write gory stuff. It is a horror but there is horror and then there is overly gory horror which I will now steer clear of. I hope your February reading is more successful 🥰

i blame Wales

Maybe you should throw caution to the wind and just mood read for a long while?

my february looks like its gonna be a bad reading month. average rating of 3.1 stars. just coming off the back of a 1.5 star read

I was grossed out in The Book Eaters when some characters said only mothers know what love is. Just a really lousy idea to put out there. The author also treaded on the parts of vampire lore (because this is a vampire book) that dovetail with antisemitism and just made everyone Christian cult members. It made me think that she doesn’t know about the Jewish stuff (Dracula was a Romanian hoarder of wealth who sucked the blood of Christians. Hmmmm yeah that’s antisemitism 101. And the author didn’t know this when she wrote Romanian vampires.)

I keep seeing people give Godkiller 5* and I'm like, girl, for what? 🙃

THANK YOU. Naomi Novik is always a SLOG for me. Her prose is so long-winded that I want to skip to the end. I've tried so many books by her and I'm so disappointed every time, lol. Please stop with the nonstop inner monologues!

I only read four books in January and I usually read way more than that in a month 😅 Luckily, they were all four stars and above! Wishing you better reading months ahead 🫶