January Reads, February Plans

I don’t have a whole lot to say about January. It’s the hardest month of winter for me–it’s dark, it’s cold, it’s long–and all I really want to do is read and sleep (which is pretty much what I do the entire month). I still vote for hibernation. Who do I need to speak to about that?

I got lots of reading done between naps, though…

Books finished: 24
YTD: 24

Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews
Love Water Memory, Jennie Shortridge
Misery, Stephen King
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye, Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us, Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars, Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart’s Desire, Robert Kirkman
Artful, Ali Smith
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense, Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life, Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before, Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer, Robert Kirkman
The Tides of Memory, Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
The Testing, Joelle Charbonneau
The Tommyknockers, Stephen King
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Independent Study, Joelle Charbonneau
Nada, Carmen Laforet
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress, Ariel Lawhon
The Free, Willy Vlautin
Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings
The Gendarme, Mark T. Mustian
Song of Susannah, Stephen King

My favorites in January were The Testing, Independent Study, Nada, and The Walking Dead comics (not including Song of Susannah because it was a reread). I can’t wait until June for the last book in The Testing trilogy–those books are so good.

Pages read: 6,708 (1,096 of which were comic book pages)
YTD: 6,708 (1,096 comic book pages)

Pages read in January, by day

Comic book pages read in January, by day

Currently reading:

The Dark Tower, Stephen King
Zone One, Colson Whitehead

Plans for February:

For my buddy sj, February is Zombruary, which means reading a bunch of zombie books this month. I’m not into them quite as much as she is, but we are doing a bit of zombie reading together. Right now we’re reading Zone One by Colson Whitehead (which is fan-freaking-tastic so far), then we’ll be reading Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess. I’m sure we’ll be reading more of The Walking Dead comics together, too, at some point.

Click to visit sj’s blog and learn more about Zombruary

I’ll be reading The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo for one of my library book clubs, and I’ll be reading Ripper by Isabel Allende to review for TLC Book Tours. I also have a few other review copies of books to read that I hope to get to this month. sj and I will probably be reading at least one Stephen King book for our READ ALL THE SK project (The Dark Half), if we have time for it. Other than that, I refuse to lay out a plan. I’ll just read whatever sounds good at the time.

Favorite book(s) in January? Looking forward to a particular book in February? Let me know in the comments!

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January Reads, February Plans

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