One of my goals for the year is to keep a monthly account of what I read over each month. At the end of this year, I want to have done 12 monthly recap posts. So I'll be recounting my reading through these posts and taking a page out of Ames from Bookish Ames book by tracking everything that she does in her annual reading recap posts. Wish me luck.
With all of that out of the way, here's what I read in the month that was January 2013.
Perfect Fit by Carly Phillips|B
Gimme a Call by Sarah Mlynowski|C
Shadow Woman by Linda Howard|C
Nobody but Us by Kristin Halbrook|B
The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright by Tessa Dare|A
Fated by Carly Phillips|B
That Weekend by Jennifer McKenzie|C
Fifteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton|B
The Risk Taker by Kira Sinclair|C
Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman|B
Crazy Thing Called Love by Molly O'Keefe|B
The Wedding by Julie Garwood (re-read)|B
How to Get Over Your Ex by Nikki Logan|C
Rising Tides by Nora Roberts (re-read)|B
Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts (re-read)|C
Love Irresistibly by Julie James|A+
Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James|A
Hysteria by Megan Miranda|C
The Song Remains the Same by Allison Winn Scotch|B
It Had to be You by Jill Shalvis|B
Second Chance at Forever by Heather Lire|D
And here are the stats for each read:
Genres:
Romance= 15
Women's Fiction= 1
YA= 5
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Contemporary Romance= 12
Contemporary YA= 5
Historical Romance= 1
Medeival Romance= 1
Romantic Suspense= 1
Formats:
eBook/eARCs= 15
Print/ARCs= 6
Grades:
A= 3
B=10
C= 7
D= 1
F= 0
Publishers:
Traditional= 20
E-Book= 0
Self-Published/Independent= 1
Year Published:
1998= 1
1999= 1
2003= 1
2008= 2
2013= 11
2012= 4
2010= 1
Most of my reading consisted of review books for Netgalley/Edelweiss and publishers but I did manage to get some re-reads in this month. I re-read The Wedding by Julie Garwood for my book club and after reading (and loving the hell out of) Love Irresistibly, I re-read Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James which was another re-read treat.
My favorite read of the month goes to Love Irresistibly by Julie James. I adored Brooke and Cade together but I really, really loved Cade. He just did it for me and the entire book was fun to read. I'm all about the fun. My favorite YA book this month was Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman. It was such a cute read and the main character Geena was hilarious and she was normal and she was a blast to read about. I really enjoyed her and her friends (even when they hated each other) and I adored Ben.
My least favorite reads of the month go to Second Chance at Forever by Heather Lire which I should have known wouldn't work for me since it's a secret baby plot and those story lines rarely work for me and The Risk Taker by Kira Sinclair. The heroine in that book got on my nerves, she was a reporter that would do anything to get a story and the crap she withheld from the hero pissed me off.
So there you go, my reading recap for the month of January 2013.
How did your month of reading go?
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I loved, loved, loved, loved it!
I really liked it so read this book!
I liked it well enough.
*sigh* I didn't really care for it though there were a thing or two that I did like.
I effing hate this book!
3 comments:
Great month, Wena!! :) You read a storm, I'm so jealous!! Looking forward to some of your review here.
Inner Harbor only got a C? I need to go check out your review :) That trilogy is my favorite by Nora Roberts.
You read so much!! and it looks like a pretty good month!! I so want to read that Julie James book now!! but I need to read the previous one first :D
Awesome, and may february be even better
What a month! I wish mine looked like that. Not just in numbers, but I also see a handful of books there I'd love to read. Hope Feb. is just as good.
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