January 2021 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

2021 got off to a slow start for me—17 books down, 5,281 pages (or the equivalent). But it’s a good start, with 3.8 average rating.

I really dislike the way it sounds like I’m whinging at the beginning of these posts lately. But 13 lousy review-ish posts? That’s just not good. Still, it’s better than last Fall, and the only way to go from here is up, right? Also, this isn’t my job, it’s not like anything bad is going to happen if I don’t keep up (Right? Right? Please tell me I’m right…)

I’m looking forward to the books I know I’m going to read in February, and to those I’m hoping to get to, too. I hope to be chippier on March 1.

Anyway, here’s what happened here in January.

	1		0
	2		0
	7		0
	4		0
	3
		Average =	3.8

(yes, this looks much worse, I recounted at the beginning the year, and things are a bit more accurate—I’m not sure where the E-Books got quite so off, but…man, that’s an intimidating number)

“Traditionally” Published: 12
Self-/Independent Published: 5

• Persons of Interest (Audiobook) by Peter Grainger, Gildart Jackson: DC Smith’s Tie to a Murder Victim Leads to a different Twisty Case
• Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich: Stephanie’s Discontented but Provides Readers with the Best Book in Years
• Free Fire (Audiobook) by C. J. Box, David Chandler: Pickett’s on the Case in a Prosecution-Free Zone
• The Curious Dispatch of Daniel Costello by Chris McDonald: A Cozy Mystery for People who Don’t Read Cozies
• Dead Perfect by Noelle Holten: A Desperate DC Races to Save Her Friend’s Life
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK XIV., v. – viii.
• We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen: A Super-Powered Thief and Vigilante Together Could Be Extraordinary
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK XIV., ix. – BOOK XV., ii.
• Gentle and Lowly by Dane C. Ortlund: An Encouraging Look at the Heart of Christ
• The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick: I Struggle to Adequately Describe this Stunning Fantasy Novel
• The Salvage Crew (Audiobook) by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nathan Fillion: A Unusual Tale of Artificial Intelligence, Cascading Failure, and Poetry
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK XV., iii. – vi.
• Wake of the Bloody Angel (Audiobook) by Alex Bledsoe, Stefan Rudnicki: A Search for A Needle in a Very Wet Haystack

Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th), I also wrote:

• The Irresponsible Reader in 2020: Thoughts, Thanks and Stats
• My Favorite Theology/Christian Living Books, Non-Fiction Books, Audiobooks, Non-Crime Fiction, and Crime/Mystery/Detective/Thriller Fiction of 2020
• The New Year Book Tag
• 2021 Reading Challenges
• Down the TBR Hole (18 of 24+)
• Down the TBR Hole (19 of 24+)
• WWW Wednesday for January 6, January 13, January 20, and January 27, 2021.
• The Friday 56 for 1/1/21 (Dead Perfect by Noelle Holten), 1/15/21 (Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire), and 1/29/21 (Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby).

How was your month?

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