Hi everyone,
here's a very belated January wrap up/what I read in January post...I normally aim to post these kinds of things on the first day of the month and, if you look at the date, you can tell this didn't happen..I would like to blame this on something legit like work being busy or something, but while work *has* been busy, the reason why I haven't been updating my blog is that I basically have been busy living life. I've been watching a lot of TV lately, which is something I used to love doing as a teenager so I'm glad I'm getting back into that!, and also reading, clearly.
Anyways, I hope you're all doing okay. I had wished and I still wish obviously, that I'd been more active on here but now, thinking back on the month I've had, I don't really regret not blogging more. I try to take the days as they come presently and I must say, at the moment, I actually kind of succeed in doing so.
I read 5 books this month which was pretty much what I'd hoped to read so I'm satisfied with this. I have also read books that I actually straight up enjoyed - most of them were four or five stars, meaning I read no books that were actually bad (and no books that were mediocre either!).
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# of books read: 5
- Ditt livs affär by Fredrik Backman
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- These Violent Delightsby Mica Nemerever
- Down Comes The Night by Allison Saft
- En katts resedagbok by Hiro Arikawa
Best book of the month: The Great Believers - a beautiful, sad and haunting tale of friendship and love during a pandemic (not this current one, no, - the AIDS pandemic during the 1980s). This book was slow and I sometimes felt myself being...not bored, but like, wishing the tempo of it was higher. Having actually finished it, I have to say I absolutely adored it.
Worst book of the month: Ditt livs affär. Not because it was bad - it wasn't, it was heartbreaking, but I think it's mainly because it was a short story focused on a topic I'd love to have seen developed more in the story. I mean, I think I would have liked this better had it been a full-length book.
Happy reading! xx
