TBR List Update: January

               

I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2025. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.

In January 2025

Books read: 5

Books I decided NOT to finish: 1

Moral Disorder: I'm treading lightly and trying not to read things I don't really like. And I'm trying not to feel like a failure for it. It's not very academically rigorous, for sure, but it's self-care.

I'm working on making the decision to DNF Iron Flame (the second in the Fourth Wing series that everyone's so get up about). I brought it along to wait in the hospital on January 30th, but didn't even finish the first chapter between everything else I was paying attention to. I'm going to give it one more chance this weekend.

Life Undercover

Books left on the TBR List: 43 (plus 8 checked out/in progress) 

Best book of the month: One Day

Loved the concept, loved the reporting that made proper chapter-length stories out of newspaper articles, TV clips, interviews, and other documents.

Worst book of the month: 

Eh. All about the same.

January's count always gets a boost from the completion of books started in the previous year. Also, it's often a quiet time with less socializing and the inclination to stay in out of the rain, so there tends to be a bit more time to read. However, this January was so full of existential anguish that I found myself scrolling the short video feeds a lot more than reading print.