Monthly Wrap Up/What’s On My Plate November/December
30 November 2024
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Tags: Book Reviews, book-blog, book-blogger, Books, Monthly Wrap Up, November/December, reading, What's on my Plate
I’m trying to post a wrap up for the end of each month, mainly to help me to keep track of my reading and at the same time look at what I’m intending to read during the month ahead (inspired by Books Bones and Buffy’s What’s on My Plate.
In this post I shall be looking at the reading I completed during November and also setting out what I’m hoping to achieve during December. So, I haven’t made great progress during November, or not nearly as good as I would have liked. I have caught up with comments and been blog hopping around (although I have more still to do). My reading has been sporadic at best, I think mainly due to the new time constraints imposed by learning a new language and the extra time out of the day, plus homework. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get fully on track with all my reads by the end of the year but I’m staying positive and hoping for the best.
Here’s what I read during November :
- You All Die Tonight by Simon Kernick
- Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
- Blood by Sarah Pinborough
- The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso – to be reviewed
For the month of November I had a lot of carry over books from October and so I shall be hopefully picking up some of these during the forthcoming month. Lets take a look at my review books for December:
None. I have a completely blank slate which is brilliant because I’m hoping to catch up with as many books as possible. Which are:
- The Coven by Harper L. Woods
- The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
- Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne
- The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
- Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
- The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne
- Here One Minute by Alex Lake
- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H. G. Parry
- The Queen by Nick Cutter
And two books sent to me by authors:
Land from Bjørn Larssen; and
Drown Deep by Phil Williams
Plus another unexpected review book that I’ve just started – Titanchild by Jen Williams
This month I yet again have read no Backlist Books -I started the year so well!
Bookforager‘s Picture Prompt book bingo
This month I’m ticking off the scroll and the pen using Blood by Sarah Pinborough. This is the fifth book in her fairytale series which I think the scroll and pen fits quite nicely.
PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2024 (TEXT VERSION)
| A microscope | |||
| A beehive (with four bees flying around it) |
So far this year I’ve read and reviewed a total of 108 books.
How did you get on during November?
Books and travelling with Lynn 
I wanted to read Last Hour Between Worlds this month but I didn’t! Oh well, I am trying to read it this month! Did you enjoyed it?
I did enjoy it. It’s not a fast read tbh, and there is something of a feeling of deja vu – but I won’t say why. I liked it, the two main characters were easy to like and it’s a great concept.
Lynn 😀
The new H. G. Parry is one I’m possibly going to end up wanting to read. There are a few on your list I’ve not heard of at all so I wonder how many of those I’m going to end up adding to my own list as well 😀
The HG Parry has had some really positive reviews so I’m really looking forward to getting to that one.
Lynn 😀
I’m hoping to catch up with some missed review books too. And also get ahead with a few January releases. And oops, I have not been keeping track of my challenges, and it’s almost time to do a challenge wrap up😬
Yes, I seem to have fallen to pieces on the challenges – at the final hurdle. I have two books left on my picture prompt so I need to push on.
Lynn 😀
December is typically my catch up month. Still need to read the new Melissa Caruso but I’m thinking I might say screw it and get a jump on some January books!
Yep, I get that, I really do. Sometimes I have to make the same decision. I’m still at that hopeful stage right now that I can squeeze a few more in.
Lynn 😀
Good luck learning a new language, which are you trying? Ink Red Ribbon caught my eye recently and I’ll have to try and check out that fairytale based series. I’ve only read a YA thriller by the author so far but I loved it. Good luck with your December TBR too it looks like it contains some lovely books. I’m particularly intrigued by the Faery one, Watch Hill & the dragon on that last cover 😂 hopefully you’ll love whatever you get to.