Month in Review: January 2018

Happy February!!! It’s hard to believe we are already into the 2nd month of the year – it seems like these days are just flying by already! This year I have decided not to participate in a ton of reading challenges – instead, I am trying to focus on the unread books already sitting on my shelf. To that end, I am participating in #TheUnreadShelfProject2018. I did pretty well this month and have high hopes for the upcoming year!  

Reading Stats: 

• Read this month: 19
• Year to date: 19
  

Books Read: 

1. Copycat — Alex Lake
2. Now That You Mention It — Kristan Higgin (audio book)
3. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn
4. The Immortalists — Chloe Benjamin
5. The Pearl Sister — Lucinda Riley (audio book)
6. Just Between Us — Rebecca Drake
7. Here We Lie — Paula Treick DeBoard
8. The English Wife — Lauren Willig (audio book)
9. The Black Painting — Neil Olson
10. After You — Jojo Moyes
11. Walking the Bones — Randall Silvas (e-book)
12. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris — Jenny Colgan (audio book)
13. Still Me — Jojo Moyes
14. Local Girl Missing — Claire Douglas (audio book)
15. Look For Me — Lisa Gardner
16. The Girlfriend — Michelle Frances
17. The Girl Who Came Home — Hazel Gaynor (audio book)
18. Twist of Faith — Ellen Green (audio book)
19. Open House — Elizabeth Berg

  
Favorite Books of January:   

• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Monthly Highlights:

• Are you a #CoHo fan? Colleen Hoover’s latest book, All Your Perfects, due out in July, finally has a cover and it’s amazing!!! I have the cover reveal along with a link to an excerpt in US Weekly. I can’t wait to read this 🙂 
• #Coverreveal: All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
• The BookSparks #LoveIsInTheAir Winter Reading Challenge has begun! Six books have been selected, and I did Book Spotlights on two so far:
• Match Made in Manhattan by Amanda Stauffer
• All We Knew by Jamie Beck

Update #UnReadShelfProject2018:

*These numbers only refer to books that have been sitting on my shelf for a while or that I have recently purchased. It does not include any review books.

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of January: 260
• Books read in January (that count): 3
• Books bought/received as gift in January: 1 (and I read it already!!!)
• Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 22
• Total unread books on shelf at end of January: 235

*Kathyrn over at The Book Date has created a Month in Review meme for
those who put together these monthly posts. From now on, I’ll be
linking my post up each month…Thanks Kathryn for putting this meme
together!!!