It may well be nearly the end of February but the pain and lack of movement in my arm have made it too hard to type, never mind make these recaps for here and my Instagram.

So here are my January reads - some great reads, especially The Queering by Brooke Skipstone, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and Friday I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett.
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My January reads:

📚 The Lost Child of Philomena Lee
📚 The Island by Alistair MacLeod
📚 Shatter Girl by Shay Fuentes

My favourite read for January was "Shatter Girl." I feel lucky to have connected with Shay via Instagram and was honoured to be part of her ARC team. She's relaunching the book on Fenruary 10th, so if you're in the mood for a bad boy redemption/New Adult love story, then I highly recommend this one!

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#januaryreads #bookstodon I am trying to track my non-work reads this year. I usually read a lot in January then considerably fewer in the build up to London Book Fair where submissions from agents start to stack up. Every single book in this stack was excellent.

Joining in the January reading list sharing @bookstodon

📗 Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

📗 The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker

📗 The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

📗 Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza

Of these my favorite was The Monsters We Defy - a fun paranormal heist adventure with fascinating Black history, an underlying thoughtfulness and lots of heart. Leslye Penelope is a writer to watch!

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My January reads
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My January reads:

Isabella Tree: Wilding
Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Martha Wells: All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1)
Riikka Kaihovaara: Villi ihminen ja muita luontokappaleita
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Black Cop's Kid, An Essay
V. E. Schwab: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Dara McAnulty: Diary of a Young Naturalist
Minna Silver: Tutankhamonin salaisuudet - Arkeologinen matka muinaiseen Egyptiin

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My #JanuaryReads
💠The Outcast Dead (technically read in Dec. but finished New Year's Day)
💠 Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan
💠 Exit Strategy
💠 Leviathan Wakes
💠 The Ghost Fields
💠 Ancillary Justice
💠 Network Effect
💠 The Lady in Blue
💠 Fugitive Telemetry

My #JanuaryReads this month:
- Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Crumbs, Danie Stirling
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil - Sands, Kate Beaton
- Widowland, C.J. Carey
- Upgrade, Blake Crouch
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna
- The Final Strife, Saara El-Arifi
- Made Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, M.T. Anderson with Eugene Yelchin
- The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau
- Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

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My #JanuaryReads -

🔹 A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, Ursula K. Le Guin
🔹 LAST DAYS, Brian Evenson
🔹 EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Gemma Files
🔹 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, William Shakespeare
🔹 COLDHEART CANYON, Clive Barker
🔹 THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, C.S. Lewis
🔹 THE CARTOGRAPHERS, Peng Shepherd

Did someone say #JanuaryReads? Sure, I'll play. Here's what I read last month (minus the books I reviewed anonymously):

Companion Piece, Ali Smith
Dangerous Love, Ben Okri
The Factory, Hiroko Oyamada
The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada
Weasels in the Attic, Hiroko Oyamada
New Selected Stories, Thomas Mann
Bournville, Jonathan Coe
Blue Skies, T.C. Boyle
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Trust, Hernan Diaz
In Memoriam, Alice Winn
Everything Calls for Salvation, Daniele Mencarelli

On to February.

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon More #JanuaryReads
🔸 The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells (all)
🔸 Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirlees
🔸Murder in Tuscany, L. B. Hathaway
🔸 Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
🔸 Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo
🔸 The Golden Spoon, Jessica Maxwell
🔸 A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I want to play!
#JanuaryReads
🔸The Secret Service of Tea and Treason, India Holton
🔸 In The Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune
🔸 The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
🔸 Ordinary Monsters, J. M. Miro
🔸 The Woman in the Library, Sulari Gentil
🔸 The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
🔸 Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
🔸 Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton
🔸 The Woods in Winter, Stella Gibbons
🔸 The Spirited Mrs. Pringle, Jillianne Hamilton

@bookstodon Here are my #JanuaryReads for what it is worth.
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
The Theory of Everything Else - Dan Schreibar
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Sign of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
Do as I Say - Sarah Steel
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

PS: In case anyone thinks "How do they have the time" I work at a microscope almost alone in my office. The work is purely visual so I can listen to audiobooks as I work.

@bookstodon Here are my #JanuaryReads for what it is worth.
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
The Theory of Everything Else - Dan Schreibar
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Sign of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
Do as I Say - Sarah Steel

All of them excellent.

PS: In case anyone thinks "How do they have the time" I work at a microscope almost alone in my office. The work is purely visual so I can listen to audiobooks as I work.

My January Reads 📚😊 four fabulous #Books to start 2023

“A Christmas Celebration”
by #HeidiSwain

“The Winter Garden”
by #NicolaCornick
“Trust Me I Lie”
by @LouiseMarley

“Snowflakes on Silver Cove”
by #Holly Martin

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Good morning, #fediverse ! A lovely and eclectic list to start your day. https://parnassusmusing.net/2022/12/30/bestsellers-of-2022/ #books #bookstodon #JanuaryReads

https://www.parnassusbooks.net/search/author/%22Straub%2C%20Emma%22 Good morning, #fediverse ! Here’s a lovely and eclectic list to start your #bookstodon day. I think I finally need to read Seven Husbands. I’ve put it on hold at the library along with Woman of Light. I’ve also got Shrines of Gaiety and Other Birds in the queue. #books #januaryreads