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January Wrap-Up

Total Read: 7
#Bookspin ✔️
#DoubleSpin✔️
#BookSpinBingo 1
#Read2025 TBRs: 6
5 Star Reads: 0
DNF: 1
#MonthlyNonFiction2025 2

January Favorite: More or Less Maddy

Finished up both of these for #auldlangspine - liked the Rachel Incident but really liked the woman on the ledge… but 2 good choices! @MallenNC @monalyisha

I feel like the gimmick (an actual alien reporting on the coming of age of an ace, lower middle class girl through living it) detracted from the story. It made the MCs identity uncomfortable and her v literal “dispatches” annoying rather than quirky. Sorry #tob #tob25 and I guess all the other best of lists last year but I wasn‘t here for it. #unpopularopinion

I enjoyed this book and how it used a youth sports competition in Reno, NV to frame the lives of the 8 contestants. The last chapter was a little weird, maybe? But Reno is a weird place, so whatever I guess. #tob #tob2025 #tob25

Visited the spinal surgeon. He still wants me out of work till March 19th. He said I could "visit" my class. Afterward, I talked to my principal. She asked me how many books have I read since my surgery. 17. There's not much else I can do except for light housekeeping. I do need a project.

I am enjoying this so much—my first big read of 2024.

Wrong opinions about The Beatles aside, I loved Adina and her observational reports on the human experience.

Their scope and her sensitivity. Even the way that loneliness looms throughout, and the underlying feeling that life is both too much and not enough.

I love books that make me laugh and cry. Even more so when they also make me ponder and reflect.

My first 5 ⭐️ read of the year.

I find Moshfegh so hit and miss and was leaning towards miss and nearly an unfinish for this one. But there is one sucker punch of a moment that was pretty great. Overall though I was just left feeling a bit meh. It would be great to see Moshfegh try something out of the “wickedly dark endearing female who is still also very beautiful” genre #eileen #otessamoshfegh #drama #literaryfiction

This is a book you can devour in one sitting. And how can one tiny book pack so much emotion, depth and gut wrenching drama into so little pages? An absolute mastery of novel writing, Claire Keegan has told a generational trauma in only few words. Incredible #clairekeegan #smallthingslikethese #novel #literaryfiction