It’s time for a look at my November reading life!
It’s time for another wrap-up/haul post — and some fun stats! (I changed my charts up a little bit this month, too!)
What I read:
(each title link will direct you to my review for more thoughts!)
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✨ review copy → 💞 buddy/group read → 🔁 re-read → 🎧 audiobook → 🍰 graphic novel/manga
🫙 TBR jar → 🗓️ 2022 TBR → 🌻 seasonal TBR → 😻 Devour Your TBR
💫 half-star
- Return to the Black Farm // Elias Witherow
- The Lake House // Sarah Beth Durst ✨💞🫙
- Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories // Andrew Cull & Gabino Iglesias ✨
- Gobbler: Fuck Your Thanksgiving // Judith Sonnet
- Phantom Pain // Ruth Anna Evans
- Hungry Business // Maria DeBlassie
- Vespertine // Margaret Rogerson ✨💞
- Sorcery of Thorns // Margaret Rogerson (re-read) 🔁🎧 (REVIEW)
- Black Paradox // Junji Ito ✨🍰
- Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 and Vol. 5 // James Tynion IV 🍰
- The Closet, Vol. 1 // James Tynion IV 🍰
- Harrow County, Vol. 1-5 // Cullen Bunn (vol. 1: re-read) 🔁🍰
- The Evil Dead: 40th Anniversary Edition // Mark Verheiden 🍰
- Blanky // Kealan Patrick Burke 🫙
- The Ice Dragon // George R.R. Martin
- Pusheen the Cat’s Guide to Everything // Claire Belton ✨🍰
- Side Effects Include // Ruth Anna Evans
- The Devil Crept In // Ania Ahlborn 💞
- Just Like Mother // Anne Heltzel ✨🎧
- Dead Inside // Chandler Morrison (REVIEW)
- Aetherchrist // Kirk Jones 🫙
And now, for some of my favorite recent hauls:
- Mysteries of Thorn Manor // Margaret Rogerson (print ARC; YA fantasy)
- Taboo in Four Colors // Tim McGregor (print review copy; adult horror)
- They Mostly Come at Night // Wesley Southard (print review copy; adult horror)
- The Foxglove King // Hannah F. Whitten (print review copy; adult fantasy)
- The Dismembered // Jonathan Janz (paperback; adult horror)
- Annihilation // Jeff VanderMeer (paperback; adult sci-fi)
- Dark Waters // Katherine Arden (hardback; MG horror)
- Thirteens & Brackenbeast // Kate Alice Marshall (hardback; MG horror)
- Wingbearer // Marjorie M. Liu (graphic novel; MG fantasy)
- Nightbitch // Rachel Yoder (hardback; adult horror)
- Raven Unveiled // Grace Draven (paperback; adult fantasy/romance)
- Flowers for the Sea // Zin E. Rocklyn (paperback; adult horror/fantasy)
- Episode Thirteen // Craig DiLouie (eARC; adult horror)
- Rootwork // Tracy Cross (eARC; adult horror)
- Happy Place // Emily Henry (eARC; adult romance)
- Bad Cree // Jessica Johns (eARC; adult horror)
- Tell Me I’m Worthless // Alison Rumfitt (audio review copy; adult horror)
- The Worst Kind of Monsters // Elias Witherow (ebook; adult horror)
- Tribal Screams // Owl Goingback (ebook; adult horror)
And finally, a little life update:
November was a pretty quiet, cozy month for our family. We did have some minor stresses like I mentioned in my last weekly check-in post, but looking back, I can’t think of anything really “big” that happened during the month other than my spouse getting a new job! They don’t start it until February, but their current job is awful and we’re so excited to know that they can start counting down the days until it ends.
I spent a good chunk of November in a slump thanks to Just Like Mother, and had a hard time crawling out of it until I realized that my TBRs were just overwhelming me too much. I constantly struggle to find a good balance because having no TBR at all usually puts me into a slump because my brain requires constant goal-setting and challenges, otherwise it just kind of shuts off… but on the other hand, I tend to set goals too lofty to reasonably attain, and then I get a little frantic trying to finish everything at the last minute. I’m going to try really hard to keep that in mind in the coming year and set smaller goals in hopes of finding that perfect balance for my poor Type-A brain. 😅
How was your month? What was your favorite book you read or hauled, or what was something nice that happened in your life?
— destiny ♥
3 Comments
I try so hard to stop setting reading goals but I can’t stop. When you said that you can’t find a balance between goal setting and not goal setting, I felt that. I either end up being unmotivated without a plan or I’m overly ambitious. There is no in-between.
Exactly! It’s so hard to find a happy medium. 🙁 I hope we can both find more balance in our reading goals soon, lol
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