Category: Monthly Wrap-Ups

I read 8 books in June. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in July!

My favorite books read in June were: Act Cool by Tobly McSmith and What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo.

These are all the books I read in June:

📖 Beneath the Surface by Harper Bliss
📖 Everything Between Us by Harper Bliss
🎧 Act Cool by Tobly McSmith
📖 Infinity Net by Yayoi Kusama
📖/🎧 The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon
📖 Love Letter To A Garden by Debbie Millman
📖/🎧 Amelia, If Only by Becky Albertalli
📖/🎧 What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

I read 19 books in May. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in June, and especially focusing on LGBTQ+ books for Pride Month! 😍📚🏳️‍🌈

The best book I read in May, hands down, was Everything We Thought Was True by Lisa Montanaro. This book was incredible!! I urge you to read it! Honorable mentions for May were: The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose and Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry.

These are all the books I read in May. As always, you can click on the linked ones to see my thoughts on the ones I reviewed.

📖 Gay Haiku by Joel Derfner
📖 Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku by Kazue Mizumura
📖 Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love by Akira Shibutami &. Yayoi Kusama
📖 Everything We Thought Was True by Lisa Montanaro
📖 The Crying Book by Heather Christle
📖 Yayoi Kusama by Frances Morris
📖 Biographic Monet by Richard Wiles
📖 I Can’t Even Think Straight by Dean Atta
📖 Shopgirls by Jessica Anya Blau
📖 The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
📖 Haikus for New York City: Seventeen Syllables for Nine Million People? This’ll Never Work. by Peter C. Goldmark, Jr.
📖 The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers
📖 Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay
📖 Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
📖 No Strings Attached by Harper Bliss
📱 This Could Be Forever by Ebony LaDelle
📖 Songs of Gaia: Devotional Poems to Nourish the Heart by Julie Tara
📖 Poems of Sappho by Sappho/John Maxwell Edmonds
📖 Earth & Spirit: Gaia by Irisanya Moon

I read 16 books in April. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in May!

My favorite books read in April were: I Might Be In Trouble by Daniel Aleman, Claire, Darling by Callie Kazumi and How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo.

These are all the books I read in April. As always, you can click on the linked ones to see my thoughts on the ones I reviewed for Netgalley.

📖 Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food & Books by Kim Fay
📖 The Twenty-Something Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for An Uncertain Age by Dr. Meg Jay
📖 Claire, Darling by Callie Kazumi
📖 The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
📖 I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
📖 I Might Be In Trouble by Daniel Aleman
📖 The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
📖 Huda F. Wants To Know? by Huda Fahmy
📖 The Friendship Club by Robyn Carr
📖/🎧 Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
📱 Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa
📖 How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo
📖 Let Us Dream: The Path To A Better Future by Pope Francis
📖 Georgia O’Keeffe: Works On Paper by Barbara Haskell
📖 The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum by Harry N. Abrams
📖 Georgia O’Keeffe: Art & Letters by Sarah Greenough

I read 14 books in March. I’m looking forward to more great reading in April!

My favorite books read in March are: The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo, Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory, Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez and The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark.

These are all the books I read in March. As always, you can click on the linked ones to see my thoughts on the ones I reviewed for Netgalley.

📱 Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano
📖 DBT For Dummies by Gillian Galen
📱 And They Had A Great Fall by Shelby Saville
📱 The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
📱 The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo

📖 Atomic Habits by James Clear
📖 The Crash by Freida McFadden
📱 If Tomorrow Never Comes by Allison Ashley
📱 Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
📖 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
📱 The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
📱Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
📖 Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
📖 Get Me Out Of Here by Rachel Reiland

Welcome to another blog post of what I read last month! I read 15 books in February and had kind of a slow reading month. I’m looking forward to reading great books in March! Favorite books read in February are: a Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush, This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson and Save Me, Stranger by Erika Krouse.

📖 A Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush
📖 What Do Buddhists Believe? Meaning and Mindfulness In Buddhist Philosophy by Tony Morris
📖 Happiness Is Overrated: Simple Lessons in Finding Meaning In Each Moment by Cuong Lu

📖 Save Me, Stranger by Erika Krouse
📖 You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life Of Lies, Second Tries and Other Stuff I Should Only Tell My Therapist by Kari Ferrell
📖 The Rival by Emma Lord
📱We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
📖 Vivi Il Momento by Mary Belle
📖 All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts For Boundless Living by Morgan Harper Nichols
📖 The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier
📖 What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
📖 Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
📖 She Started It by Sian Gilbert
📖 This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
📱Take A Chance On Me by Elizabeth Eulberg

I’ve been posting my monthly wrap-ups on my bookstagram (Instagram) for years, and it somehow just occurred to me to also post them here. So, starting this year, that’s what I’m going to do. I’m also going to start writing blog posts about bookish things other than just book reviews, such as library programs and authors visits I attend. After all, this blog is about my entire bookish life! So, here goes!

I read 17 books in January, and they were some amazing books! Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney was easily my best book of the month. I’m looking forward to some more great reading in February!

Here are all the books I read in January: (You can click on the linked ones and see my thoughts in separate blog posts for the books I reviewed for Netgalley).

📖 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
📖 The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
📖 Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz
📖 Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
📖 Becoming Beatrix: The Life of Beatrix Potter and the World of Peter Rabbit by Amy M. O’Quinn
📱 More Or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
📱 A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall
📱The Conjurer’s Wife by Sarah Penner
🎧 Seasons of Love by Harper Bliss
📖 Rachel Weiss’s Group Chat by Lauren Appelbaum
📖 Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner by Meghan Keane
📖 No Place Left To Hide by Megan Lally
📖 Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
📖 The Wedding People by Alison Espach
📱 After Life by Gayle Forman
📖 When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
📖 Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney