the 17 books i've read so far this year | january february wrapup 

As someone who gets intimidated by people reading a bajillion books a moment, I like the Q1 Wrapup Format

Im still on my very first book of the year. As much as I love reading, Im dyslexic so I take forever BUT whats most important is that you LOVE reading and that I definitely do!

17 is impressive. My goal was only 2 a month.

Against the Loveless World and Evil Eye were two of my recent Palestinian reads, and I adored them so so so much

I loved Bookshops & Bonedust! It didn’t feel quite as cozy as Legends & Lattes because the setting is different, but it was so heartwarming! It’s set in a seaside town and it’s just about them doing the most mundane but sweet things like fixing up a bookstore and eating tasty food. It made me feel so relaxed and so happy unlike most books I read.

QUEEN POSTED!! im still reading my first book of the year lol I want to be you when I grow up (I'm 23).

you read such diverse and interesting books and you always have great summaries of them

I loved None of This Is True! And I recently finished Map of the Otherlands and actually enjoyed it even more than the first book, haha! My favorites from the past couple of months have been Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Hate U Give, The Girl With the Louding Voice, We Were Dreamers, Chain-Gang All-Stars, and Anne of Green Gables 😊

you should definitely read bookshops and bonedust!!!!! it is such an amazing book. i really love legends and lattes but i read the second book soon after it came out and i love it even more :)) it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re interested

Books I read in January/February: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (started in December, finished in January) Allegiant by Veronica Roth (a reread) Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (didn't finish until March, that book is huge) Just goes to show that just because you don't read 30 books a month doesn't mean you aren't a reader :)

“Kindred” is a masterpiece. Octavia E. Butler was such an incredible writer. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍

I just read As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow and loved it! I will be reading None of This is True this weekend and Evil Eye next week.

I love your makeup, your eyes are so pretty!

I’m sending you all the love❤❤❤

What a good selection of books

I think you should definitely pick up bookshops and bonedust! I loved legends and lattes when I read it in November, and I read bookshops and bonedust last month, and loved it just as much! I felt like it had the same cozy vibes, except in a bookshop, instead of a coffee shop. Also, since it’s a prequel, as soon as I finished it, I wanted to pick up legends and not his again. My favorite Reid so far this year has been the violent conspiracy.

Wow your curls are gorgeous!

agreed!! against the loveless world is one of my top 10 of all time

I love Kindred!

Love legends & lattes 🥹

I echo your reviews of Kindred (masterpiece!) and The Writer's Retreat (meh). The only Lisa Jewell I've read is Then She was Gone, which I just recently read. It was intense and creepy in a way. I want to read more from her, for sure.

I just looooove hearing the high praise that you had for Kindred ❤ I read it in 2 days, which is extremely uncommon for me.

My goal this year is to read 5 books a month, but I’ve actually also read 17 so far! 😅❤

I am looking forward to picking up evil eye.

❤id love to read Loveless World,Bride,Evil Eye,Díana Quinn, 😊

I read both As Long As The Lemon Tree Grows and Bright Young Women in the past month too :) You should watch Castle in The Sky (Salama and Kenan's fave Ghibli movie) after because you'll be able to see exactly where the author got her inspiration for some of the scenes in the book. Right now I'm just starting The Forest Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, which I got years ago as a gift from a friend who went home to India during college - it's a feminist retelling of the Ramayana, which seems really cool, and I really haven't seen people talk about it in the bookish community.

Hi Jananie! A bit late, but I read A Woman is No Man on Fable with your book club and I am beyond grateful for it! The book was amazing and heartbreaking, I cannot stop thinking about it since we read it for February. I’d love to know what your thoughts are on it and I know I’ll be picking up Evil Eye soon! All the best!

I just read No Woman is a Man by Etaf Rum and loved it!!

Here's what I read in February Clytemnestra by constanza casanti Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles The urgent life by Bozoma saint John memoir The hurricane wars by thea guanzon Foul heart huntsman by chloe gong Godkiller by hannah kaner Shogun by james clavell While we were dating by jasmine guillory Endangered by c.j box Defiant by Brandon Sanderson One for my enemy by olivie Blake

read in Jan: sci·fi: Wayard Pines trilogy - Blake Crouch sci·fi: Generation Ship -Michael Mammay horror: Nestlings - Nat Cassidy fantasy: The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez 😻 horror: Natural Beauty -Ling Ling Huang sci·fi: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir 😻 (audio - highly rec the audio!) fantasy: The Founders trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett 😻 spec·fic: Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Emma Törsz (audio - do NOT rec this book) read in Feb: fantasy: The Green Bone Saga (Jade City trilogy) - Fonda Lee 😻 horror short stories: Bad Dolls - Rachel Harrison thriller/horror: Dead of Winter - Darcy Coates horror: The September House - Carissa Orlando 😻 cozy fantasy: Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree sci·fi/horror: Exit Black - Joe Pitkin (do NOT rec) lit·fic/hist·fic: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh 😻 Japanese crime thriller: Out - Natsuo Kirino (audio - rec but check TW) read so far in March: sci·fi: Upgrade - Blake Crouch horror: House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland thriller: Blacktop Wasteland - S.A. Cosby horror: A History of Fear - Luke Dumas sci·fi: Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki thriller: Kill For Me, Kill For You - Steve Cavanaugh current reads: dystopic: A Ballad of Songbirds & Saints - Suzanne Collins (audio - booooring) fantasy: Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo TBR for rest of March: thriller: None of This is True - Lisa Jewell lit·fic: Evil Eye - Etaf Rum lit·fic: Salt Houses - Hala Alayan sci·fi: Palestine+100 - anthology poetry: A River Dies of Thirst - Mahmoud Darwish and already planned out my April TBR 😄

I’m on my 42nd book this year

A few books I read and enjoyed were The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, The Others series by Anne Bishop (re read), Bookshops &Bonedust (better than L&L) Emily Wildes Encyclopedia....so so, but I have the 2nd book.

As a person whose English isn't the 1st language, 4 books in a month is a lot for me. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I really enjoyed, Bride.

Anybody know what the name of the Seven Year Slip dark version is or where the book can be purchased? She mentioned it in the video.

💜💜

I truly loved The Ex Hex, not because it was groundbreaking but i did enjoy the sex scenes

❤📚

THEN SHE WAS GONE BY LISA JEWELL !! My second favorite after none of this is true

*spoiler alert for None of This is True* I wanted so badly to love this book and for it to get me back into thrillers, but I thought that the concept of a teenager manipulating a 40+ year old man into sleeping with her and that being a sign of her psychopathy was wild and I just couldn’t buy it.

THIS is what i needed on this sunday 🤍🤍