I keep track of my monthly reading in my journal. Technically, you could consider it a bullet journal, but I don’t use many of the methods they suggest that make it a real bullet journal. You can get lost in bullet journal theory online in about 5 minutes and, while I find it endlessly fascinating, I do not have the patience for that kind of upkeep. I have a separate notebook planner (that I don’t like very much and keep wondering why I use it) and also a google calendar, an outlook calendar, and a paper calendar. So there isn’t really once source of truth.
That was a nice tangent. The point is that I keep my list in my journal and it does not look elegant at all. You can check it out, if you dare, in my instagram stories.
- Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
- Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
- The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
- Slightly South of Simple by Kristin Woodson Harvey
- When You Read This by Mary Adkins
- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins-Reid
- The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
I enjoyed all of my books this month. It was a great month! I had a week in there where I wasn’t reading as much because of some personal things going on, so my monthly total isn’t as high as usual. I also started and did not get to finish 4 different books, so those will be coming soon.
I find it interesting to know what books people did not finish, and why. Also, I am not as popular as Anne Bogel so I don’t think that I will run into the issue of people not remembering that I am not recommending these, for whatever reason.
DNF’s (did not finish)
- The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes. This got re-branded and re-released recently as a mix of ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Gilmore Girls.’ That, it was not.
- At Briarwood School for Girls by Michael Knight. I could not get invested in this school or these characters. It felt too distant.
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I think my issue with this was that the audiobook was too slow for me. I may try again on a printed copy.
- The Editor by Steven Rowley
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