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January 2024 - Monthly Wrap-up



Hi, everyone!

I hope that everyone had an amazing January. For us in Southern California, it ended with RAIN!!! πŸŒˆπŸŒ‚πŸŒˆπŸŒ‚πŸŒˆπŸŒ‚

However, there was nothing rainy about the January 2024 books! Lots of 5.0-star, 4.5-star, and 4.0-star books!! The details are below!!

 

2nd ANNUAL “booksbydorothea” BEST BOOK OF 2024 NOMINEES:

  • All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore (January) 5.0-stars REVIEW LINK

 

As a reminder, you may have read previously in my blog, my INAUGURAL “booksbydorothea” Best Book of the Year 2023 was:

  • How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair 5.0-stars REVIEW LINK

 

GOODREADS READING GOAL:

For 2024, my goal is 100 from the very start!!! As of 01/31/2024, I have read 15 or 15% of my goal.

 

JANUARY 2024 STATISTICS:

15 total books

10 e-books; 5 audiobooks; 0 physical books

9 books were an ARC (Advance Reader Copy)

6 books were library books

0 books were purchased

0 books were Amazon First Reads (ebooks)

1 book was Book Club Girl (ebooks)

Audio listening time in January: 27 hours, 51 minutes

Pages read in January: 3,841 pages

 

JANUARY BOOK RATINGS with BOOK COVERS: 

5.0-star books (2)

The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

REVIEW LINK


All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

REVIEW LINK


4.5-star books (4)


Weyward by Emilia Hart





The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker





Can't We Be Friends
by Denny S. Bryce & Eliza Knight



Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington (audiobook) 

REVIEW LINK


 

4.0-star books (7)

Baggage - Tales from a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming (audiobook)

REVIEW LINK


The Queen of Sugar Hill by ReShonda Tate

REVIEW LINK


Endangered Eating by Sarah Lohman (audiobook)

REVIEW LINK


Backlash Blues (Gabriel PrΓ¦st series #2) by Amulya Malladi

REVIEW LINK



The Evolution of Annabel Craig by Lisa Grunwald





Nonna Maria and the Case of the Lost Treasure #3 by Lorenzo Carcaterra




Summers at the Saint
by Mary Kay Andrews

 

3.5-star book (1)

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

REVIEW LINK

 

3.0-star books (1)



Karma by Boy George (audiobook)



If you want to read my full review of any of these books, there are individual review posts for each e-book or audiobook below the picture of the book. You can just click on the specific book link to get to that book review!! 

 

Happy reading, 

Dorothea πŸ’œ

 

P.S. For more information about my book ratings, you can find out more HERE.

 

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