January 2025 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

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On February 7, 2025

In Books, Calendar Items, Currently Reading, News/Misc.

This is a little late, but I did manage to get it I read 19 titles (the same as last month, 2 more than last January), with an equivalent of 5,308 pages or the equivalent (4,061 down from last month), and gave them an average of 3.8 stars (.1 down from last month).

I’m not crazy about all the things I meant to post and didn’t–but I’m pretty happy with what I managed to post. I’m not going to go deeper than that. Doing anything but doomscroll lately seems like a victory, really.

Anyway, here’s what happened here in January.
Books/Novels/Novellas Read/Listened to

Cover of The Pilgrim's Regress by C.S. Lewis Cover of Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher by Katie Siegel Cover of Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets by Christopher Farnsworth
3 Stars 3 Stars 4 1/2 Stars
Cover of The Bang-Bang Sisters by Rio Youers Cover of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs Cover of The Boys of Riverside by homas Fuller
5 Stars 5 Stars 3.5 Stars
Cover of The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis Cover of Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire Cover of Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
3 Stars 4 Stars 4 1/2 Stars
Cover of The Accidental Joe by Tom Straw Cover of God of All Things by Andrew Wilson Cover of Sword & Thistle by S.L. Rowland
4 Stars 3 Stars 3.5 Stars
Cover of Subculture Vulture by Moshe Kasher Cover of I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger Cover of Return from Exile and the Renewal of God's People by Nicholas G. Piotrowski
4 Stars 4 Stars 4 Stars
Grandpappy's Corner Logo with the Cover of I Am a Big Brother by Caroline Jayne Church Cover of Hit The Ground Running by Kate Ashwin Cover of The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire
3 Stars 3.5 Stars 4 Stars
Cover of Don't Tell Me How to Die by Marshall Karp
4 1/2 Stars

Still Reading

Cover of Wisdom for Life by Michael P. V. Barrett Cover of Called to Freedom by Brad Littlejohn Cover of The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

Ratings

5 Stars 2 2 1/2 Stars 0
4 1/2 Stars 3 2 Stars 0
4 Stars 6 1 1/2 Stars 0
3.5 Stars 3 1 Star 0
3 Stars 5
Average = 3.8

TBR Stacks/Piles/Heaps

Audio E-book Physical Goodreads
Want-to-Read		 NetGalley
Shelf/ARCs/Review Copies
End of
2024		 3 68 78 167 10
1st of the
Month		 3 68 78 167 10
Added 3 1 7 1 3
Read/
Listened		 2 1 5 0 4
Current Total 4 68 80 168 9

Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 17
Self-/Independent Published: 2 (wince!)

Genre This Month Year to Date
Children’s 1 (5%) 1 (5%)
Fantasy 2 (11%) 2 (11%)
General Fiction/ Literature 1 (5%) 1 (5%)
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller 5 (26%) 5 (26%)
Non-Fiction 3 (16%) 3 (16%)
Science Fiction 2 (11%) 2 (11%)
Theology/ Christian Living 3 (16%) 3 (16%)
Urban Fantasy 2 (11%) 2 (11%)
“Other” (Horror/ Humor/ Steampunk/ Western) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

Review-ish Things Posted

Other Things I Wrote
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th), I also wrote:

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?

January Calendar

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  1. Gina

    Great month. Congrats!

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