Month in Review: November 2021

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Hard to believe it’s already December! This year has flown by…and while there are still plenty of books left on my tbr from November, I still did read quite a bit. I participated in both #NordicNoirNovember and #NonfictionNovember and got in some good ones in both genres.

The big news this month is that I started a newsletter for the blog!!! I do hope you will sign-up if you haven’t already done so. My intent is not to flood your inboxes every day. I’m not exactly sure how often I will be sending these newsletters out, but I do know that as a subscriber, every once in a while you will receive extra content that will not be published on the blog or anywhere else.

 

 

Bookclub news: We just announced our #mommaleighellensbookclub picks for December and due to upcoming holidays, we decided to only go with 2 books this month: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult and The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox. All chats take place on the Discord app, so anyone is welcome to join us – just let me know and I’d be happy to add you to the group!

 

Reading Stats:

  • Read this month: 25
  • Year to date: 288

 

Books Read:     

  1. All Her Little Secrets — Wanda M. Morris (audio book)
  2. A Solitude of Wolverines — Alice Henderson (print/audio book)
  3. Everything We Didn’t Say — Nicole Baart (audio book)
  4. Death at Greenway — Lori Rader-Day (audio book)
  5. The Lincoln Highway — Amor Towles (audio book)
  6. November 9— Colleen Hoover
  7. Beautiful Country — Qian Julie Wang (audio book)
  8. A Blizzard of Polar Bears — Alice Henderson (audio book)
  9. In Sight of the Mountains — Jamie McGillen
  10. The Cartographer’s Secret — Tea Cooper
  11. In Light of the Summit — Jamie McGillen
  12. In the Heart of Paradise — Jamie McGillen
  13. The Secret of Snow — Viola Shipman
  14. Once There Were Wolves — Charlotte McConaghy (audio book)
  15. Secrets of a Charmed Life — Susan Meissner (audio book)
  16. The Family — Naomi Krupinsky
  17. A Promised Land — Barack Obama (audio book)
  18. Death Deserved — Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger
  19. The Jealousy Man — Jo Nesbo
  20. The Crow Girl — Erik Axl Sund
  21. If the Fates Allow — Rainbow Rowell (audio book)
  22. Oh. What. Fun. — Chandler Baker (audio book)
  23. Model Home — J. Courtney Sullivan (audio book)
  24. The Marriage Test — Suzanne Redfearn (audio book)
  25. Once a Liar — A.F. Brady (audio book)

 

 
Favorite Books of November:     

  • Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
  • Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
  • The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

 

This year I am all about the numbers. I decided that I am not doing any challenges, but I am going to pay attention to my own stats. This may or may not change as the year goes on…we shall see.

Books read that were published this year:  17  (232 YTD)

And of those, how many were review books:  13  (209 YTD)

Backlist review books read:  2  (19 YTD)

Books read off my own shelf (not review books):  9  (42 YTD)

Books bought/won in giveaways:  13  (75 YTD)