MY JANUARY 2022 WRAP UP | 📚✨ 25 books in 31 days! ✨📚

Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog! Can you believe we’re a whole month into 2022? I can’t believe it tbh, it feel like we’re 6 months in on my end. I kind of feel like I didn’t read a single thing this month but I was going through my Goodreads challenge and I somehow read 25 whole books, and most of them weren’t small either! I got majorly hooked on Matthew Reilly’s books this month and couldn’t resist binging them! I also tried to vary my current reads a bit outside of all the action reads, so there are some middle grade reads and a bunch of books all in other genres which I’m really happy with! I’m also really hoping we’ll see this from me in February too!

Goodreads Challenge Update!

I am 9 books ahead of schedule!

• Pages read: 8,356
• Books read: 25

• Most disappointing book of the month – Under The Whispering Door
• Worst book of the month – Red Rising
• Most suprising book of the month – Keeper of The Lost Cities
• Best book of the month – The House in The Cerulean Sea

MONTH	PAGE COUNT	READ COUNT
JAN	8,356	25

🌻 – Buddy read // 🎧 – Audiobook // 📚 – Library book // 🔁 – Re-read
🌈 – LGBTQIA+ rep // 🟣 – disability rep // ✨ – 2022 release

*Click on the titles for my Goodreads reviews! You can also find my StoryGraph reviews here!

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• Mythos [01/01] 🎧🌈- ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – I won’t retain half of this information but oh boy, this was a great time. I’m so glad Stephen Fry narrated the audiobook too!
• Every Heart A Doorway [04/01] 🔁🎧🌈 – ⭐⭐⭐.75 – My favourite re-read so far!
• Down Among The Sticks and Bones [04/01] 🔁🎧🌈 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – Gosh, I was so uninterested in this story this timea round. I wonder if that’s because I re-read it every year or if I was just not in the mood.
• Red Rising [04 – 06/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐.5 – Yeah this ain’t it chief
• The House in The Cerulean Sea [08/01] 🎧🔁🌈 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – So heartwarming and cozy while also dealing with some really complex topics!
• Under The Whispering Door [09/01] 🎧🌈 – ⭐⭐⭐ – A somewhat interesting idea with some very loveable characters but, ultimately underwhelming in every way.
• Keeper of The Lost Cities [10/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – Not mind-blowing but I had a really good time and I plan on continuing the series later this month!

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• Beneath the Sugar Sky [11/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – My favourite re-read so far!
• The Five Greatest Warriors [11/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – The end of the first trilogy and it was great!
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 [12/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – This was brilliant Packs a serious punch and I had to take several breaks while reading!
• Jack West Jr and the Hero’s Helmet [12/01] ⭐⭐⭐ – Suprisingly good for somethign so short!
• The Four Legendary Kingdoms [12/01] 🎧 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Defiintiely my least favourite so far but still enjoyable.
• The Three Secret Cities [13/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Absolutely ridiculous but I’m so here for it!
• Jack West Jr and the Chinese Splashdown [13/01] ⭐⭐⭐ – A quick read but not as good as the first story!

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• Convenience Store Woman [13/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – This was absolutely brilliant and I highly recommend it! If you need a really quick read that packs a punch you should really pick this one up!
• The Two Lost Mountains [14/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – What an emotional rollercoaster.
• The One Impossible Labyrinth [14/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – I cannot believe this series is over. REVIEW
• Henry Hoey Hobson [15/01] ⭐⭐⭐ – It’s baffling how much more enjoyable a book can be when you actually know where the locations are in the story.
• The Pisces [23/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – Very well written but might be too weird and because of that the message gets lost.
• Australia Day [25/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Such a good book, I recomemnd this to all Australians, but I also think it would have an impact for readers from different locations to!
• Weather Girl [28/01] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Such a good suprise! I read this with my book club tis month and had an anbsolute blast!

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• The Great Zoo of China [28/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Jurassic Park but make it dragons!
• Ice Station [29/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Alex Rider for adults. Not my favourite but I can see myself loving this as I go through the series!
• Area 7 [30/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Definitely better than book 1!
• Scarecrow [31/01] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – Yes! We finally met Aloysius Knight!!

JANUARY DNF’s

I DNF’d Hamnet this month. I got roughly 20 pages in and honestly I just wasn’t vibing with it, I’m sure I’ll continue it in the future though.

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🔁 – Rewatch // 🌈 – LGBTQIA+ // ✨ – 2022 release

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• Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts [02/01] ✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – What a pointless waste of my time.
• Coco [08/01] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Truly one of my favourite movies.
• Encanto [08/01] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Animated perfection.
• West Side Story [17/01] ⭐⭐⭐ – This could have been good but Ansel Elgort is too fuckin creepy and it’s distracting
• Encanto [24/01] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – It’s official. This is one of my comfort movies now.
• National Treasure [27/01] 🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Considering that it’s an absolute classic, National Treasure is never talked about enough.

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I wasn’t sure what stats I should include in my wrap up this month so instead I put in all the stats! Let me know which graphics you’re more interested in and I’ll make sure to include them next month too!

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